During its financial report, CD Projekt RED unveiled the main reasons behind The Witcher 3’s delay. According to the company, the development team is currently further optimizing REDengine3 and is still working on improving the quality of graphic assets, animations, effects and sounds.
The good news is that the main storyline is complete, and the game can already be played in full (in its current build). Although CD Projekt RED is adding more side-quests, the world of the game is completed, meaning that locations are finished and all important gameplay mechanics are already implemented.
Moreover, the team is currently recording voice overs for each language version of the game, although dialogue lines are already closed and implemented.
It’s pretty obvious that CD Projekt RED is polishing its title, and that’s one of the reasons why the game got slightly delayed. Furthermore, the team claimed that one of the reasons the game releases in 2015 is because there will be less competition in 2015.
In addition, CD Projekt RED claimed that this delay will give it time for an improved marketing campaign that will target aware gamers and not random gift-buyers. Also, CD Projekt RED wants to offer the game to more customers and believes that by 2015, there will be more players gaming on next-gen consoles (as opposed to current-gen consoles).
Those interested can read the Polish slides from that financial report here (do note you need an account in order to view the slides).
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Sigh… I wish people would start using last-gen consoles and current consoles. The next gen is probably 5 to 7 years away.
that doesn’t make sense
yeh… what’s he saying exactly?
if im not wrong he is saying that people should buy keep buying 7º gen consoles because he thinks that next gen is too powerful ,i think that he just doesn’t speak english at all and google translate trolled him ,if wrong ,then he is even more retarded than the entire dualshockers userbase.
*10 years . This gen won’t last 7 years like last gen 🙂
next gen (ps5 xbox 4k) will be in 6-7 years when 4k tvs are able to run at 60hz without costing $3000.
Like I’ve said before, PC gaming has been next-gen for a longtime.
Very very nice.
I got The Witcher some weeks ago in a Steam sale and I´ll play it any time soon with patience making it last. (Played The Witcher 2 a while back but missed the first)
Only those who have played the first game know that there is a masterpiece hidden inside those outdated (still good lucking) visuals . Loved that game . It takes some time but once story picks up and you become better at gameplay , then it is hard to let it go . (Play Enhanced Edition)
I have Enhanced Edition (same as The Witcher 2 ). 😉
Yeah I watched some game-plays and decided to get it…sometimes when I play seconds parts of some games that are good (because they are old or something) I get them.
It is like being a “retro-gamer”…playing newer games now and the old ones next.
The Witcher has a great story that´s for sure and combat can be tricky but as you said once you become better is when you enjoy it the most.
The combat is painfully simple and so much better in TW2. Animations, faces, dialog everything like that is so much worse in TW1 that it’s really hard to play.
I hope “optimization” doesn’t mean “downgrade”.
with CD Projekt you can be sure optimized does not mean downgraded ^__^
Hope for the best, expect the worse.
This means they’re working on PS4 and Xbone, this is why it delayed
Which is good news that they were fully focused on PC and it is almost done . They could’ve released PC version sooner than consoles but it is their choice to release on all platforms at once . Doesn’t bother me much , as long as their games are PC centric .
Take your time with this masterpiece , I can wait a bit longer . However , if this delay had anything to do with consoles and their underpowered hardware then this will really piss me off .
tl;dr engine optimizations and they want to make sure the game runs well. they also haven’t finished the side quests. which seem to be the meat of the game. this is good. only bad thing is not many ps4 rpgs to choose from, witcher 3 was probably the biggest one coming.
We REALLY need 3-Way & 4-Way SLI optimization for this one. A DX12 patch down the line would be great also.