February 17th, 2012
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In a recent interview with OXM, CD Projekt’s Konrad Tomaszkiewicz and Jakub Stylinski explained why their critically acclaimed game, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings will be making its way from PC to the Xbox 360, but not the PS3…
“It’s our first experience with consoles – we’ve only worked on the PC until now, and we wanted to make a really good adaptation of our game,” Tomaszkiewicz began. “We’ve used the same team who worked on the PC version to make a really good adaptation.”
“We’ve used the same team who worked on the PC version to make the transition to Xbox, mainly because when we tried to outsource the first Witcher, it ended up being a bad experience. We could have tried to bring it to other consoles, but we just wanted to focus on the one platform.”
“Our team isn’t that large – we can’t focus on three platforms at once,” Stylinski said. “What we’re doing now is making the same additional content for PC and Xbox, and if we were working on PS3 too we just wouldn’t be able to get it all done.”
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings will be available on the Xbox 360, April 17th. CD Projekt RED has stated this will be the “most polished and definitive version of the game”.
Source: OXM
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Makes sense. Jeeze, even companies with large teams have issues multiplatforming.
Yep. It all leads to poor financing. Hopefully Xbox owners support this game, as PC gamers sure as hell didn’t. For those of you who did get it on PC, good for you. too bad only 1 million of you guys did and the other few million got it illegally.
seriously, the amount of people who have played this game must be in the 3 or 4 million mark, yet only 1 million sold, including digital.
Hopefully it sells well on Xbox, so that there is more chance of it coming to ps3, and maybe they will get back to porting the 1st one to Xbox and ps3 as well (which they ended up cancelling due to financial reasons).
Super awesome game, heard nothing but positive reviews from my friends. I am ordering a PC soon so i will get it on PC. apparently the story is epic.
Simple, because ps3 dont have the POWER to handle the game engine/graphics.
lol the ps3 has 50% more power than the 360
my source is IGN
http://gear.ign.com/articles/111/1116182p1.html
thetruehurts,
You’re another friggin moron like PS3FTW.
Oh what rubbish “the truehurts”. With correct optimization and effective programming, we all know the PS3 is capable of providing a superior experience to the Xbox version. problem is it takes so damn long, and costs so much money.
Of course that’s not the case, you’re just being a fanboy thetruehurts.
There’s two reasons and they tell you one of them in the article. They only had manpower to work on one port. Maybe if it’s successful on the Xbox you’ll see them work on a PS3 port, but it’d have to be really succesful because the second reason is the Xbox and PC has a lot more in common and therefore is easier to port to, that’s one of the reasons you see many Xbox games also being on the PC and less so with PS3 games.
And Sanchez you’re no better, superior experience is subjective, maybe my superior experience comes from having an ergonomic controller in my hand and what I often find to be more intuitive controls on the Xbox, doesn’t mean it’s the way everyone sees it.
who cares its a crap game anyway
lol typical console fanboy who have never played any witcher game
look at the scores it have become at gamingmagazines , even on metacritic it has 88
could you explain why this game is crap ?
LOL wow thats pathetic.
Dont get why its not comin to PS3. The game is supposed to have a lot of depth and most xbots wont be able to understand any of it. They should bring it to PS3 as PS3 owners actually enjouy a game with depth and complexity.
They probably will bring it out for PS3 eventually after they see the disappointing $hitbox sales with superior visulas, extra content and all one blu ray.
Nice to see more lame fanboy idiocy around this. Obviously the PS3 has the power to handle the game and obviously it’s FAR from a crap game. People making such idiotic comments should be banned in my opinion.
They actually are working on 3 platforms at once, it’s just the third is a pretty simple PC port. That being the OnLive version which should come out pretty soon.
I think it’s simply easier porting the game to the xbox 360 than to the ps3. Besides, it’s hard enough having little or no experience with consoles and then putting the difficult cell architecture on top of that. Since Witcher 2 was a graphical marvel, they probably want to do it properly with no half-assed ports involved.
I personally think that the dev team felt because the xbox 360 hardware is so close to the pc hardware they probably felt more comfortable with developing for it as they as pc coders. PS3 gives some companies issues with utilizing the hardware to the fullest potential but as we all know ps3 has tremendous balls uncharted series anyone?so I know Witcher 2 could be ported sucessfully. But xbox 360 is way more like a pc.
They recently said they’d want to bring something new ti game on ps3, rather than simply port it, same as they’ve done with port to 360. This indicates, its distinct possibility, but it would take time, as like they’ve said, they simply don’t have manpower to do more than one project at time . Personally couldn’t care less tbh, but this article its simply flame hair taking quote out of context
Well, at least they have been honest. It’s no mystery that’s easier to port PC games to the X360 than to the PS3.
I really wanted this for PS3. But then I played the demo of the first game on OnLive and if the gameplay is similar i don’t believe I am missing much.
The game mechanics were overhauled pretty substantially from the first to the second. There’s a lot of amazing ideas at work in this game, and the story is both amazing, and insanely open and flexible. Sadly, a demo really doesn’t do the game justice, you can’t sink your teeth into the mechanics and story.
2012 and 2013 we will see the best graphics this gen can handle. Long life XBOX360 and PS3.
in other words
“we just dont have the time for you PS3 gamers. you’re just not important to us.”
I see how it is, guys. thats cool. thats why I already pirated your game on the PC. when you **** over PS3 gamers, PS3 gamers **** you back.
Aw man I really wanted this game too….but for some reason I feel like they’ve said this same exact thing multiple times a few months ago/last year or so…plus they didn’t say it ISN’T coming to PS3 just that they focused on one thing at a time….maybe im wrong though.
The PS3 can’t handle graphics like these….
…I mean… the devs can’t handle the PS3.
PS3 cant handle skyrim (lag as hell because of 256mb lol) imagine this game with this graphics. PS3 is build to play linear games like crap of war or uncharted. Open world games like red dead, gta they need to remove graphics like shadows, some textures etc. Even gran turismo that is a exclusive game and take 6 years to come lag in some areas. You ps3 fanboys aways bash the developers, you need to bash sony to make 512mb shared memory. Maybe next gen console they will fix it and build it with 4gb or 8gb and with easy tools to develop / port games. You all can hate me for life, but Im saying the truth.
@ BFTE “lol the ps3 has 50% more power than the 360
my source is IGN
http://gear.ign.com/articles/111/1116182p1.html”
And a tugboat has 300% more power than a F1 car.