Witcher 3 is still (so far) their greatest magnum opus so I kind of understand that they don't want to fuck this release up. I hope they take their time.
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Witcher 3 Next Gen Update switches to In House development/checking, delayed indefinitely (read threadmark)
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Witcher 3 is still (so far) their greatest magnum opus so I kind of understand that they don't want to fuck this release up. I hope they take their time.
The OP should be updated to point out its due to the outsourced dev team being located in Russia and all that entails, not the quality of the work.
Doubt it. It's so old, and it would be a free update based on their promises. Most anyone who wanted to play it probably already has for all of $5 or whatnot.
Nothing wrong with this delay, especially considering the circumstances. Make it great, and take as long as you need. Rushing it out almost never goes well.
I figured this, something like that is an insane under taking, especially with their rep currently. They'd have to playtest that thing to hell to make sure they didnt regress much, couldnt imagine doing that with a game at that scope.
This is brought up everytime in these Witcher 3 next-gen update threads and it won't stop folks ignoring that specific detail that the W3 Next-Gen update was outsourcing work since even its initial announcement. Always with the immediate knee-jerk reaction it seems.
Not going to blame them at all for wanting to get out of a contract with a Russian dev right now, even if that means work probably has to start over from something close to scratch.
cdpr hasnt exaclty proven their technical provess on consoles either, to be honest, especially with the shitshow around cp77
Too bad, but makes it less unfortunate that I just finished playing it recently (didn't know about future update when I started). With HD texture pack mod on PC the game looks pretty sweet even now! The difference is big, very recommended. Many cool QoL mods as well.
Sure this sucks, but they're delaying it to be a better product. And I'm sure there is more behind the scenes. No need to bash this so hard, if they would've released it and had issues people would've complained saying CD isn't the same. Sheesh people will complain about everything these days.
Ah, bummer, I was holding off on my 4th playthrough, but I guess I'll have to go ahead and do it since this seems more than a year away now :/
Very true, very true, but CP77 was more a case of a new unproven team rushing out a broken unfinished skeleton of a game. Witcher 3 was a little rough at launch but got to a good place on consoles, and I'm hoping they take the time to get this update right.
i don't have the time to drop everything to play this, so i welcome the news. i want this baby to come out fully baked, not half assed
The tweet says they're evaluating the scope of the work to be done. Can't blame them for not providing some BS estimate when they likely have no idea how long this will take themselves, unless you want another Cyberpunk situation.
I was holding off on only my 2nd back in October. I never actually played the expansions either. I'm now deciding whether to keep waiting or just start it back up and if somehow this comes out earlier than I think it will, start over once again.
I wasn't even aware Saber had a team in Russia. If this is the case, it makes perfect sense that they pulled it away from Saber. No sense in further supporting a nation that is invading their neighbor.
Why they would need to start from the scratch? CDPR most likely owns everything that was done on this project this far so they just keep going from what is already there.
That's suck. I was hoping this would be out by summer. hopefully the final product will be good.
CD Project has huge coordination and efficiency problems when it comes to developing.
They have so much workforce and talent,but they take tripple the amount of time to get to milestone X in comparison to other companies.
They have so much workforce and talent,but they take tripple the amount of time to get to milestone X in comparison to other companies.
Is the title and OP still not updated to include the context that Sabre Interactive's Russian branch was working on this? Cyberpunk obviously had issues and they don't want that repeated. Couple that with the War in Ukraine, and the delay becomes much more understandable.
I'd be interested to see if the next gen version gets closer to the original reveal trailer, but Witcher 3 on PC with mods is pretty spectacular.
That's some important context. Also, it seems like every thread about this remake so many people are unaware it was not an internal production
Not having a date, I wonder if it's just because they don't have the staff required to work on it, or if whatever Saber gave them was lackluster. Considering the situation with the war on Ukraine, it's a smart move to break away from any Russian links.
Par for the course here.
Par for the course here.
As soo as I heard that the studio is Russian I imagined that it would be connected to the war and sanctions
I've said this in other Witcher 3 related threads before, but they really should've just made this a 60fps/4K patch and released it back in 2020 or last year.
Waiting over 2 years (possibly 3 years by the time this comes out) for a next gen patch of a 7 years old game is just not an enticing prospect. Especially since this is gonna be a free update (at least for now) so it's not like they get to really sell this product at full price, so it doesn't really make much sense financially to them either.
Waiting over 2 years (possibly 3 years by the time this comes out) for a next gen patch of a 7 years old game is just not an enticing prospect. Especially since this is gonna be a free update (at least for now) so it's not like they get to really sell this product at full price, so it doesn't really make much sense financially to them either.
hmm it should have. at least series X runs both modes on 60fps.
Is the port team at Sabre all located in Russia? I wonder if that's where Switcher 3 and other Switch stuff came out of, or if the port work is spread around.