CD Projekt RED has just announced that its highly anticipated RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, has been delayed one more time. While the game was meant to hit stores this February, the game has been delayed almost three additional months and now targets a May 19th release.
According to the team, the game is delayed because it wants to further polish it.
“The sheer size and complexity of The Witcher, key features of the title, have had a decisive impact on production. Now, nearing the end of our work, we see many details that need to be corrected. When we release the most important game in our studio’s history, we must be absolutely sure that we did everything we could to limit any bugs to a level that will allow you to enjoy the game thoroughly.”
A couple of months ago, we heard some rumors suggesting that The Witcher 3 was under a development hell. Not only that, but the game was originally meant to hit stores in 2014. Add these two together, and you may have a sneak peek at what’s happening in CD Projekt RED. That, or we are simply reading too much into this.
Let’s also not forget that the latest trailer was not as mind-blowing as the previous ones. CD Projekt RED did not reveal whether it was from the console version or not, however we can safely say that NVIDIA’s specific features were missing from it.
CD Projekt RED concluded that game will be coming on May 19th:
“Even though everyone is working at full speed, we concluded that we need another 12 weeks, so we are shifting the release date of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to May 19th, 2015.”
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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No problems whatsoever there. I do prefer to play a game that is better polished.
As others have put it, better delayed a bit than to pull “a ubisoft move”. Poor ubisoft, they became the studio given as example for defective games.
But damn, i was really looking forward to this game in february. It was already pushed from 2014.
not a good sign, first half of 2014, then end of 2014, then delayed to feb 2015, now delayed to may 2015. if it means more polish and more optimization, i’m all in, but please don’t announce a game when it’s not ready.
come to think of it, 2015 have even less games than 2014 (real desert) and most of 2015’s big games are 2014 games which delayed to 2015 and they still keep delaying them. Batman,MadMax,DyingLight which i don’t care about,GTA V pc, battlefield HL,Project Cars,Pillars of Eternity,Sui Generis,Grim Dawn.
They never announced the game for the first half of this year. Thats the second delay.
mmmmm, that is true
Well this news didn’t bother me at all especially when games like Assasin’s creed Unity exist in the way they do. But man if they can be able to turn the game back to what it looked like in those early trailers then everyone wins.
I’m guessing most of the delays are mainly due to the fact that developers still aren’t 100% comfortable with the new generation and this are mainly growing pains.
did not even know that so many times delayed release. I knew about 2 times .. but honestly it’s true, if you do not know that you have a finished product does not boast about it.
Take Your time, we don’t want day one patch.
This obviously isn’t ideal but I say let them take as much time as they need to make the game perfect. Even though I bought a 980 just for The Witcher 3 I don’t mind waiting until CD Projekt make the best game they can. At least they won’t push it out the door half-made like those ploughing wh**esons at Ubisoft.
“Ploughing wh**esons” . Haha , I see what you did there. Epic !
Maybe they are undowngrading The Witcher 3 after the negative reaction yesterday.
They don’t give a thing about reaction, and they surely won’t “undowngrade” it just because someone on PC is upset.
This peasant has got a point. No reason to be on this website, maybe, but a point nonetheless.
They didnt ever downgrade.
Obvious reason is to avoid GTAV PC and to have more development time after the “obvious downgrade”. It could mean it’s not a “downgrade”. It could mean earlier trailers are edited images/videos to hype for pre-orders.
Delays is always good news for me, just got a upgrade (not gpu great but f’ing yeah!) and have yet to finish the first two games.
That and the fact that I can’t buy games day one anyway :s
congrats
Thanks Amir!
I agree a delay can be beneficial, but by 3 months 🙁
Need more time for downgrade (remember Watch Dogs?).
This is PCDR not Ubi/Ebolasoft.
EbolaProject.
The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf – upgraded version of Witcher 1 – console exclusive.
The Witcher 2 – alpha version of what it was suppose to be, buggy as hell, made for consoles in mind – came out on PC first (with console interface) just for testing (aka Early Access).
Those “Free DLCs” as someone may call them are just a part of development of any game. Only the Enhanced Edition may be called as the release version of Witcher 2.
The Witcher 3 – already in bed with Microsoft & Nvidia, rumors about downgrade, a year of crunch – delayed again for the sake of console versions.
I don’t see why they need to downgrade the textures, even the XB1 has the RAM to have full quality especially if they using 3.5GB for video. Downgrade LOD and anything CPU then yes.
The most noticeable thing for me was the lack of self-shadowing.
Just compare. First image – shadows from noses, chins and pretty much every piece of armor.
I could believe that’s maxed out 8xMSAA on a PC, even 4xMSAA.
I kind of lost you here. I was talking about the lack of shadows. Yes, the bottom pic has a lot of aliasing, but that’s not the problem.
On the plus side she kinda looks more feminine but that’s probably just the angle and less harsh lighting.
I honestly kind of expected them to deliver the quality bar from top pic, I didn’t think they would downgrade the game back to Xbox 360 level, even existing Xbox One games look better than bottom pic.
yo son, CDPR is dead to you, why do you keep talking? seriously. just let it go., go play skyrim if you want an open world game with no downgrades, they have mods.
Obviously because I like to talk, and I also like a good “drama”. Get over it.
lol witcher 1 pc exlcusive, withcer 2 may have had console, NOT consoles in mind cause it only came out for 360 and it sold like s**t compared to PC. so yes, pc in mind, they havent wronged us yet, not nearly as much as ubisoft or ea. cdpr still has my full support and have already pre ordered three copies of the witcher 3, so yes, theyre still bettter and by miles than ubi and ea in every single way. not even mentioning that the witcher alone is a much better saga than anything assassins creed or dragon age.
Say all you want it’s going to be amazing on PC.
You said the same about Unity, several hundred times, but that didn’t helped.
And these are two different developers… I have more faith in cd project red then I do Ubisoft.
I am going to be pissed if this delay is related to consoles.
Take as much time as you need to make a kick as* game. I’ll be playing
Total War : Attila till then . On other hand, I am a bit worried because
I never wanted this game to go open world and instead wanted it improve
upon Witcher 2. Hopefully they’ll be able to pull it off since its
their first open world game.
Better late than broken when it comes to gaming. 🙂
“Oh crap they noticed the downgrade!”
At this rate it’s probably coming just in time for Christmas 2015. I just hope they get the graphics up to par by then. I still hold them to their early promotional screenshots they released, if they need more time to reach that goal that’s fine by me.
It’s obvious why isn’t it? They saw the absolute dumpster-fire mess that Dragon Age is in and wanted to make sure they don’t *forget* to do QA for an entire platform.
I’m fine with this. Will definitely have the cash for my new build by then.
I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt about the whole downgrade thing but isn’t it too coincidental that they announced a delay after a full-blown downgrade issue ? hmm ……..
PortStation 4 is to Blame
Fine by me. I’ll have lots of time to play GTA V and Resident Evil HD.
looks like far cry 4’s update is out and it really fixed stuttering issue. @SeanW1972:disqus could you test that ?
1362mg update… oh goodie
well the game runs 59/60fps on my setup… but still out of no where drops to 30fps hic ups… but that fur works… omg!!! Would post screens but gotta go to work.
frame rate is/was ok, see if stuttering on ultra textures without mipmap trick while driving got fixed or not, thanks. it’s really cheap in here and there is no game to play until may “witcher 3” 😀 maybe i get it if it really fixed
I’ll see what I can do. 🙂
thanks dude
That’s fine with me as there are plenty of upcoming games to play until May.
the neogaf threads must have spooked them. or maybe they are just putting more time into the game. or maybe back to the 1st thought and they are putting even more visuals in the game then before since people based a downgrade off of a compressed video…
The video from GamerSyde is not compressed. There is clearly a downgrade.
Go watch the old trailers again, they have a lot of bugs and low res elements here are some screens I grabbed from the old trailers
http://i.minus.com/it1x151nq2yCU.png
http://i.minus.com/ibvijxmfJQnVaR.png
http://i.minus.com/iOiXcL4gtVUKt.png
http://i.minus.com/ibvjrQVCWiSRrd.png
The footage they showed us recently doesn’t have self-shadowing. Even the E3 footage had it. I posted some screenshots in below Who knows what else they downgraded.
Its suspicious to delay the game 1 day after people complained about the downgrade I guess they didn’t expect people to notice
It was suppose to be like this: they showing an awesome trailer, while saying that they just need more time. Everyone’s happy.
After what other publishers are doing, I’m very surprised that someone believes they made this decision just because someone noticed something. That kind of decisions cannot be made within 1 day. It was planned long ago.
i don’t care, there is so much to play until then i can’t find the time.
Everything in the tech industry is a mess right now >_<
I don’t understand why you trying to arguing with me, when everything I said is a simple truth. No matter how many words you will say it won’t change anything. You should clear your head and read my post again without that pink glasses.
Rise of the White Wolf (upgraded version of Witcher 1) was suppose to be a console exclusive. Yes, A CONSOLE EXCLUSIVE. It’s a simple fact. They didn’t finished it only because they had financial problems.
Witcher 2 was developed for consoles in mind, but they didn’t had enough money to complete it, so they decided to release it in an unfinished state. Of course they couldn’t do that on X360 or PS3 (developers need to pay money to patch their games), so they choose PC.
The release version of Witcher 2 on PC was clearly unfinished. It had an immense amount of bugs and it was thrice shorter than Witcher 1. Again, it’s a simple fact, which fanboys of CDP had forgotten for some reason.
Yes, I know the classic answer from a fanboy: “But.. but.. I didn’t had any problems!”. Then go and read patch notes. There are several hundreds of fixes and changes. Again, it’s a simple fact.
When they finally finished it, they called it Enhanced Edition, but in truth, it was a release version of the game they planned originally for consoles. Everyone who buys a game in Early Access gets a release version of a game, so testers of Witcher 2 got Enhanhced Edition. There is no generosity in that, but everyone believed that it was a “free dlc”. Facepalm.
But the main problem with the Witcher 2 is that it has console interface and console combat. You don’t have be a Sherlock to figure it out, and you need to be some super stubborn fanboy to say otherwise.
So, CDP died for me back in 2009, when they announced their console exclusive, and I won’t be surprised if they will decide to show the finger to PC gamers again.
doesnt change the FACT that it never sold as well as it did on PC so your dum***s argument that all games sell better on consoles its fallacious. you just mad you cant run the game. the game was fine, it was downgraded (witfcher 2) because scrubs like you thought it was too hard and it was made casual. no game is perfect, yet it was way more playable than any of ubisofts games, or battlefield games and many more triple A games. So yes, like every game, it has its faults, and guess what? it still outsold console version and its still gonna outsell console version in witcher 3. its simple fact, you may wanna be a little b**ch and call cdpr another developer, when in fact theyre not. they are nothing like ubisoft or EA, so i dont really see your point besides whining. we will see who is right, but in the meantime, we wont miss ya buddy, go be with the peasants and your 900p.
You don’t make any sense. I don’t give a thing how it sold. I haven’t said anything about sales yet, and I didn’t said that it was downgraded. I said that it was made for consoles in mind, and it’s truth.
I’m being mad because they choose consoles over PC for upgraded version of Witcher 1, Witcher 2, (and probably Witcher 3 too, cause it was obviously downgraded) and you saying that I’m a peasant. That’s hilarious. It’s you here who is fine with all this sh*t, so maybe you are a peasant?
Firstly I think they joking with this delay but now I know it is truth. I’m disappointed so much. When they delay this game first time they promised The Witcher 3 will be finished to February. Now what? The game is delay one more time, is too much at once.
All in all, I do not know what to think. After all, the game was already almost ready. That’s why this delay? A bit, not serious. They might have to admit, the first time that the longer it will take to complete the game. Then, it was still acceptable. Now, he remained a big distaste.