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The Witcher 3 4K Patch for Xbox One X
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Musky_Cheese
Banned
I was wondering the odd wording. Are only some 4k patches free?
Microsoft has been very willing to put up the money to get Cd Projekt Red to deliver a patch seems likely. Really cannot fault them in that case as the assets etc. were already made and the One X has more than enough power they do not need to half ass anything and go for a full featured 4k patch and it brings the studio more money
No. Console is 5x more powerful than the One. Makes it much easier.
Infernostew
Member
How strange would it be if money hatting upgrade patches becomes a thing?
Zeouterlimits
Member
Easy sure, but if devs are done with a game they require incentive to go back and do said work & releasing that.
Highly likely CDPR got some kind of kickback.
iceatcs
Junior Member
Yeah odd wording from the show, they said 5 enhanced for free. So that mean the others are not free or?
4.6x more powerful. 4K is 5.8x the pixels of 900p. We'll see if it's really that easy to get 900p games to 4K.
Just to be clear probably. Thats fine.
where do you get this lol? needs citation
Musky_Cheese
Banned
Right. Seemed odd
Karspankey
Banned
All they meant by the upgrades being free is that you won't have to buy a new edition of the game or anything; like a "Deluxe" version. It's common sense to us, but they have to say it for the more casual listeners/viewers
BS! Upping res to at least 1440p requires as much effort as upping res on X1 X.
tiebreaker
Member
Told you.
camequipped
Member
Honest question, are people really expecting native 4k on Witcher 3 from a $500 box??
Unfortunately not without a much more powerful CPU.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
If not native, then checker boarded should be a lot more feasible.
But I would like to get a solid confirmation on this, OP is all sorts of misleading. Phil's mention of the 5 games receiving 'free' X patches is even weirder. We need more info.
Complicated
Banned
Awesome news. Will wait to finish Blood and Wine for this.
If they patch One X and continue to say it's not worth their time with the Pro, that would take them down a peg or two in my esteem. I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt for now that if they do one they'll do the other, even if One X gets a "better" patch to 4K or something and Pro is just checkerboard or (my preference) better frame rate at 1080p.
I think they will hit native 4k with dynamic scaling.
dr_rus
Member
Why do you assume that this patch is from CDPR? I don't see anything stopping MS from patching the game to run on XBX in another resolution.
interesting idea and not totally out of left field considering that they have worked on higher res and performance with older games and backwards compatibility.
Musky_Cheese
Banned
But just those games?
InsaneTiger
Member
Hmm, if this is outsourced I understand, I would hope there will also be a Pro patch. But this is CDPR so, yeah.
It would seriously suck if they would update the game for Xbox One X but not for PS4 Pro. A Pro patch is what I have been hoping for all this time. I'm in my third playthrough now and I bought all the DLC expansions. I love this game. Come on, CD Project Red, don't do this to me. 
Robot Pants
Member
Haha yea?
When? How?
Big Green Anus
Member
Disappointed no patch for Pro. I guess they found time to work on the patch unlike their previous statement.
It would seriously suck if they would update the game for Xbox One X but not for PS4 Pro. A Pro patch is what I have been hoping for all this time. I'm in my third playthrough now and I bought all the DLC expansions. I love this game. Come on, CD Project Red, don't do this to me.
I can run it at 4k on my PC but trying to vsync to 30 just doesn't work well. I would definitely like to see a console checkerboard patch. My TV is ready.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
Hold on, before I get excited...
Didn't they just mean this is one of the games that will automatically look better and load faster on the X without any dev input needed? Or an actual 4K patch?
Didn't they just mean this is one of the games that will automatically look better and load faster on the X without any dev input needed? Or an actual 4K patch?
SenseiAsad
Member
You might be onto something, didn't Witcher 3 supposedly have a dynamic res on XB1?
Resident_UA
Member
What? Do you really think that it will be native 4k on Xbox X?
I guess that's possible but that's a lot of work.Alpha Phoenix
Member
It does, but it's literally stuck at 900p everywhere that isn't the main menu (which is rendered natively at 1080p).
Might be a case where Ms is doing the work themselves.
GamingPheasant
Banned
Can't complain. I'm currently playing Witcher 3 Complete Edition, and the frame-rate goes to zero when I fought
. I may double dip, i just need to see if the other games interest me on XOX.
Therazane
No, he begins that segment by talking about how every game will benefit from the extra power but the 5 first party games and 30 third party games would be receiving new updates for 4k.
Resident_UA
Member
Yeah I'm all for speculation and all that but... come on. At least word the posts in a way that makes it seem like you don't already know lol
It would seriously suck if they would update the game for Xbox One X but not for PS4 Pro. A Pro patch is what I have been hoping for all this time. I'm in my third playthrough now and I bought all the DLC expansions. I love this game. Come on, CD Project Red, don't do this to me.
Yup.
We certainly don't need exclusive patches.
Yup, alternative facts abound. No single word on why, how, what. And yet people like good luck getting 60fps, this is bullshit bo PS4 Pro, MS probably paid or outsourced, hopefully this comes for PS4 Pro begging etc.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
If MS paid for the patch I see no reason to not keep it exclusive.
And I would give mad props for MS dishing out money to the benefit of their customers.
Where you heard that?
GameAddict411
Member
That's kinda hypocritical considering they refused to support the PS4 pro. I smell some financial incentives here, but I might be wrong here. Maybe they will do a PS4 pro patch as well.