14 DAY TRIAL // The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developer CD Projekt Red believes it's pointless to talk about a game's resolution, its minimum PC requirements, or other technical aspects until it's finished, as all sorts of things can change until then.
The Witcher 3 launches later this year for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One platforms. Polish developer CD Projekt Red has already talked a lot about the game's different features, from the story, which concludes the trilogy of adventures for protagonist Geralt of Rivia, to the huge amount of possible endings, depending on the choices made by players.
The game, as with the previous The Witcher 2, will push all platforms to their limits, including the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft.
Both the PS4 and the Xbox One have been engaged in a bitter war ever since their release in terms of performance figures, especially when it comes to multi-platform games and exclusives titles.
Such comparisons, however, shouldn't be made until a game is ready for release, according to CD Projekt Red's Michal Krzeminski, who talked with Games.
"If you’re asking me to throw a rock in the PS4 vs. Xbox One resolution war, I won’t. The game is not finished and talking about resolutions, framerates and min. specs (for PC) is, I think, pointless. Everything can change during the optimization process at the end of development. Rest assured, we’re working our butts off make The Witcher 3 run and feel equally awesome on every platform."
CD Projekt Red has already expressed its admiration for the powerful PS4 and Xbox One platforms, as both consoles have allowed the Polish team to do great things in The Witcher 3.
"Essentially, the game can look mind-blowing, we’ve got seamless gameplay with no loading screens (almost everything is streamed during gameplay, cutscenes etc.), we can add visual effects unavailable to us before because of performance issues and so on, the list is huge. All this constitutes a giant, lush open world with a myriad of things to do, quests, adventures, monster hunts, events and so on."
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is set to debut later this year for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One platforms but, unfortunately for fans of the series, CD Projekt Red hasn't offered any details about a possible launch date or at least a possible period in which the RPG might arrive.
Expect to hear much more about Wild Hunt as we continue into 2014.