Remember when CD Projekt RED said that Cyberpunk 2077 was ready for launch and it was running “smoothly” on PS4 and Xbox One? Remember when the game was released and completely bombed? Remember when Sony even pulled the game from the PlayStation Store over bugs and incomplete gameplay? Yeah, that happened.
Well, CD Projekt RED is being a little shady about The Witcher 4, likely to avoid another train wreck. So much so that CDPR refuses to confirm whether the game is actually planned to release on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
In an interview with Eurogamer, game director Sebastian Kalemba stood by the latest reveal trailer saying over and over again that the video was a “good benchmark”. He says that CD Projekt RED is aspiring to achieve cinematic quality in The Witcher 4. Whether or not this cinematic quality will run on current console hardware is unclear.
When asked if the Xbox Series S will run this “cinematic quality” game, Kalemba could not answer. He says that the purpose of the reveal trailer was to showcase to the world that Ciri is the main protagonist in The Witcher 4 and the studio achieved that.
He claims that ideally, the project would release on PC, Xbox, and “Sony” but he can’t provide specifics on the current situation.
“You know, first of all, this is good to say: this is not a kind of ‘beginning of marketing’ campaign. We firstly wanted to showcase and share with the entire world that: Ciri is the main protagonist; it’s The Witcher 4; and she’s mutated; and she’s on The Path, definitely, right? The second thing is that, yes, we are working on a new engine right now, together with Epic’s engineers, and there is a great synergy and a great collaboration between us. And currently we’re working on Unreal Engine 5 and our custom build. And obviously we want to support all the platforms – meaning PC, Xbox and Sony, right? – but I cannot, right now, tell you more specifics regarding that.”
Granted, it is very early for CD Projekt Red to spill the beans on the platforms for The Witcher 4. The game is likely a few years away from launch. However, given that Cyberpunk was only in development for two years before it was released under blatant lies and false advertising, we have to watch this studio very carefully.
Source: Eurogamer
