SwiftDeath
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Should be noted that the tweet in question is from Feb. 17, so 53 days ago lol
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Witcher 3 rumors: 900p PS4/720p Xbone, 30fps, equals minimal settings of PC
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Rogue_Ledr
Banned
Yeeeesh!
I hope they fix that if true.
The new consoles may not be PC powerful but they have enough untapped potential to be harnessed to get a 1080P/30FPS game on PS4 at least.
I hope they fix that if true.
The new consoles may not be PC powerful but they have enough untapped potential to be harnessed to get a 1080P/30FPS game on PS4 at least.
So minimum requirements should never go beyond a 7850? This is a game that's coming out in 2015. You must hate progress.
At any rate, if the requirements are indeed that steep, it'd probably still be playable on a 7850 if you lowered the res.
Targeting powerful hardware != unoptimized. Why would you want them to target lower end hardware?
The Witcher 3 sets itself apart in many ways but the most obvious of them is the vegetation. No more trees where I can count the polygons. Trees look like trees.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
Why would he be kidding? A lot of Steam users (and computer users in general) are people with run of the mill laptops. Even the gamers among that group most likely just bought a gaming laptop that has only a half-decent graphics card. Honestly 25% sounds too high.
I think people are comparing the PS4 and Xbox One to the best graphics cards on the market and are coming up a little misguided in terms of thinking of these new systems as "weak".
And, even with optimization, I don't think a lot of PC gamers are going to be happy soon. Watch_Dogs recommended specs look kinda crazy, that LotR game looks crazier, and both of those games are cross-gen.
Arkham Knight and Witcher 3 are, to my knowledge, the first next-gen only games that will actually hit PC, so that'll give you guys some idea of what you'll be needing to shoot for in the future.
It's been seven years since the last console generation, so if you guys wanna keep being king of the hill you just might have to drop a bit more coin.
maneil99
Member
#TruthHurts #Opinions
Because a majority of pc owners have lower end hardware and that's where most of your sales will come from. Do you even business?
The majority of console owners still only own a Ps3/360.
maneil99
Member
Where did I stated my goalposts?
OdysseusVA
Banned
You're outright trolling at this point. Everyone's allowed to have an opinion but when you dwelve into the "u mad bro" territory you went too far.
What exactly is your point? The game is not coming to those platforms. Also, this game will end up selling more on consoles btw. You can take it to the bank.
Trent Strong
Banned
I hope a next gen game looks better than friggin' Witcher 2.
what game's visuals impress you ? Just curious since you seriously consider TW2 an ugly game even on ultra.
maneil99
Member
straw man argument where targeting less then 25% of steam users is the same as Ps3 vs PS4 userbases..?
It will sell a respectable amount targeting the high-end systems. Just like the previous Witcher games.
Strawman now? i though I was moving my goalposts.
maneil99
Member
Crysis 3, Infamous, Wargame, Battlefield 4, Killzone, Ghosts at times, Metro. Witcher 2 is ugly in my opinion.
No AAA dev is in business for their games to just sell "respectably".
Gareth Bale
Member
Have you played The Witcher 2? Because you can turn off sharpening and bloom
So, you are saying that the Witcher 3 (or other AAA games) won't target high end systems?
It's also three years old, so it kinda makes sense that it looks like a last gen game.
justsomeguy
Member
Totally vindicates my plan to build a new PC for this game once recommended specs are known, rite?
ghosts ? COD ? ..Looks better than TW2 ?
KungFucius
King Snowflake
I don't think it is unreasonable at all. The PS4 is weak and the Xbone is even weaker. I'd like to see games that lead on the PC for development, struggle to hit 1080p on the PS4.
maneil99
Member
Sharpening helps but the game looks flat without bloom, if the god damn guys didn't glow that they were radioactivewhile keeping the bloom the game would look decent
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
ITT: People find out 8GB of GDRR5 RAM isn't their lord and savior.
The Sony love on this forum is literal madness, accusing one of the best technical devs in the business of not optimizing their game because your PS4 is too weak to run it at max settings? Shameful.
The Sony love on this forum is literal madness, accusing one of the best technical devs in the business of not optimizing their game because your PS4 is too weak to run it at max settings? Shameful.
I don't even know why you would say the PC version of The Witcher 2 looks like a 360/PS3 game when there is actually a 360 version of the game that looks substantially worse.
Makes no sense.
Obviously.
FeiRR
Banned
I tried to find that "Cyberland PC" user/site (quoted as the original source) on Facebook and I can't. Anyway, the language barrier between Polish and Russian is quite big because of the alphabet Russians use. I know it sounds cool to report a Russian website but it doesn't add to credibility of the news.
GHG
Member
Nothing 'next gen' about this.
Yeh sure, find the worst screenshot possible and use that as an example.
Good job.
Have a Nice Day
Member
PC Gamer Perspective: The mental classification console gamers tend to have, for every game, as either "last-gen" or "next-gen" is very odd. It's a very binary (and arbitrary) way of thinking that perceives the continuously evolving PC microprocessor market and general game development software as being purely subjected to more stagnant platforms with fixed capabilities. The Witcher 2, on the 360, may very well be a "last-gen" game. The Witcher 2 on PC is not... it's not in any generation, but by its texture resolutions, lighting effects, polygon counts, shadowing, and resolution (especially given the impressively low budget CDPR had to work with), it is not something the 360 or PS3 could have run in any meaningful manner (specifically referring to the version PC gamers played) and the PS4 and, especially, the Xbox One would still struggle a bit to run it were you to be aiming for 60 FPS (excluding ubersampling)
In the same manner, Crysis games, Metro, Battlefield 3, Arkham Origins, etc. on PC are also in their whole own league which the PS4/Xbox One would definitely still struggle with on their greater settings, let alone the PS3 and 360. Consoles do limit a lot of baselines for a lot of developers, but not completely and not for all developers. People need to understand that computer hardware and engine tools do not evolve in a binary "next or last gen" manner as consoles (really an arbitrarily-timed hardware update scheme reflective of only a small window in the continuum of processor development). On the PC, they evolve gradually over time (some obvious limits notwithstanding and with a few exceptional games that ignore the limits and cut down to their level when necessary, as well as the renaissance of scalable engines we see now) and these changes/experiences are what eventually allow developers to give a strong showing on the next generation of consoles (as well as produce more efficient and "optimized" results within the same console generation), not a binary shift in development standards, first-party developers excluded.
In the same manner, Crysis games, Metro, Battlefield 3, Arkham Origins, etc. on PC are also in their whole own league which the PS4/Xbox One would definitely still struggle with on their greater settings, let alone the PS3 and 360. Consoles do limit a lot of baselines for a lot of developers, but not completely and not for all developers. People need to understand that computer hardware and engine tools do not evolve in a binary "next or last gen" manner as consoles (really an arbitrarily-timed hardware update scheme reflective of only a small window in the continuum of processor development). On the PC, they evolve gradually over time (some obvious limits notwithstanding and with a few exceptional games that ignore the limits and cut down to their level when necessary, as well as the renaissance of scalable engines we see now) and these changes/experiences are what eventually allow developers to give a strong showing on the next generation of consoles (as well as produce more efficient and "optimized" results within the same console generation), not a binary shift in development standards, first-party developers excluded.
michaelius
Banned
What the fuck am i reading?
Please post me 5, no, 2 open world games looking better than this.
maneil99
Member
GhostTrick
Banned
I dont see how it is unoptimized. They said a gtx780 ti can run it beyond 30fps, with everything maxxed out (which means crazy IQ, physx and such) and it's an open world title (bigger than skyrim).
How can you say it's an unoptimized game if you havent seen how the game looks in low preset for exemple ?
How can you say it's an unoptimized game if you havent seen how the game looks in low preset for exemple ?
if the game supposedly can't even run decent with a 780 then iono. your going to need a,good $1000 worth ofhardware to run,it at max
Most AAA devs won't, they'll target midrange systems and ps4/xb1 because that's the largest growing segment of the market. Some people believe the rest of the world is like pc gaf buying $600 gpu's. Get real, even in pc gaf, most of the upgrades are moderate. You're looking at cards like 760 and 750ti's.
Did I say the last of us looks next gen? No, so why make such a pointless statement? Well only you can answer that question.