Here’s a thing: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was one of the games listed that will be upgraded for the Xbox One X, the new mid-gen upgrade from Microsoft. But back when the PlayStation 4 Pro launched, many people asked developer CD Projekt RED if it would pledge similar support for Sony’s supercharged system.
Here’s what it said: “Our teams are currently working very hard on our upcoming projects such as Gwent: The Witcher Card Game and Cyberpunk 2077. We want to be entirely focused on the development of these projects.”
Microsoft was obviously a partner on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, so… Well, we understand how business contracts work. And perhaps its efforts on Xbox One X mean that a PS4 Pro patch will belatedly arrive after all. Seems a bit rubbish from the typically honest developer, though, doesn’t it?
Update: A patch is coming to the PS4 Pro after all.
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I knew this was going to happen. They have always sided with Microsoft (see Gwent) it sucks but it is what is.
They've always been up MS' a**, it still pisses me off that the collectors of Witcher on Xbox got extra items and cost the same as the PS4 version!
Depends if MS are paying them to take the time to patch it along with all the other deals and support they have provided. It maybe that they are working with MS to do this where as Sony would expect them to do it themselves.
@viciousarcanum What 'extra' did Xbox get?? The Witcher 2 on BC?? I guess the same as Fallout 4 on Xbox. I remember getting BF1942 and Assassins Creed free on PS3 with a BF and an AC game - also all the extra content/missions in AC games, watchdogs etc so its NOT one sided... MS have never had additional game-play extras so Xbox owners have missed out on content far more than PS gamers over the years. At most a PS gamer has had to wait a month for access to DLC until Sony took the piss with a year with Destiny content...
Sammy where is the source of them saying the Xbox one is getting a patch?
I just hope that this means a PS4 Pro patch is on the way so we don't have to see potshots taken at CDPR here every time they make an article on here about them
Microsoft dishing out that $$$ for an X patch so they can put there thumb on there nose and go neaner neaner at Sony.
Yet, there console doesn't have as many exclusives as the PS4.
Wow that really sucks. We'll see after Sony's conference whats what i hope
@bbtothe Was on the big screen when Phil Spencer was talking about Xbox One X support.
@get2sammyb awesome thank you! will be watching it tonight after work. your definitely right about it seeming a bit odd from CD PR to be muddy with it
I'll take Persona 5, Bloodborne, and Nioh over a Witcher 3 patch any day of the week.
@Deadlyblack Exclusives are not all that, yeah PS4 has some great ones but it depends on if a person is interested in them, I've completed TLoU and Uncharted 1-3 and I regard them as one of the best games I've played but no other exclusives on PS4 interest me, which is why I don't own one.
This is great news for me I'll be sure to get back in the game if it's patched with 4K and HDR.
@MaccaMUFC Thing is, I can play most of the Xbox's console exclusives on PC, rendering the console pretty much useless for someone who co-owns a PC and PS4.
I've said it on a previous topic; if Rare Replay and Gears 2 and 3 were on PC, my Xbox One would be on eBay.
Time to give CD Projekt a strongly worded tweet.
@get2sammyb
It isn't personal against Sony or the PlayStation fanbase, it's obviously just busine$$. Not like Sony doesn't sign these as well and we all knew there would be some big partnership team ups for the Xbox One X.
The witcher 3 already have stable 30 fps though with the latest patch a couple of month ago, so unless it's 60 fps patch I think it's not a big deal for the pro.
Bloodborne in the other hand, sigh
I do hope cdp release a patch for the pro.
Wow that's kind of shady cdpr I thought you were cool.
Did they get paid to do so? I'd like more information maybe take some time to ask CDPR lets have some journalism here.
It seems in line with the current Xbox policy of making new consoles just so that you can play old games 😃
No biggie. Already played it, already loved it.
PC mate. If I ever wanted to play it again in 4K 60FPS I'd pick it up for $10 off a key site somewhere. I already supported them once.
IDGAF
Right so im sure some arrangement was made lets not forget that porting and enhancing games on the one x will be a breeze with micrsoft's OS as digital foundry already mentioned with Forza. If you were to ask me to port my game over to another console and it would only take me a day to do then why the hell not
Yes but the PS4 Pro is just a cheap tiny upgrade which isn't all that much better than the PS4! Where as the Xbox one X is a proper upgrade worth the time to upgrade games for!! (Btw I'm a PS4 gamer before you start saying I'm a MS lover lol)
Another win for Microsoft
Replaying on my OG ps4 at the moment and perfectly happy with it
@Midzark but is it really worth upgrading for? $499 seems a bit steep especially when all it's really doing is making the games look a bit nicer
i'm not saying it doesn't have potential but lets be honest with most console gamers not having 4K TV's yet and Probably a limited budget dropping $499 on a console is a lot to ask for ESPECIALLY when a standard XB1 will play all the games and is half the price
honestly this will only appeal to the fanboys and the power whores
BUT saying that i do hope it does well for MS even though i have ZERO interest in it because the XB1 isn't really doing that well and they need something to keep them in the game
of course only showing Indy games at the conference didn't help
Microsoft have clearly had to drive a dump truck of money up to developers to patch older non first party games. That is the way the world works, Sony does the same kinda thing.
Just give me Cyberpunk already....
@DLB3 I haven't played Uncharted 4's multiplayer since the beta.
Did play a ton of Uncharted 2's multiplayer back in the day.
@Flopsy ps4 pro will not be getting patch
The Xbox Scorpio console is a fully custom, highly modified, insanely over engineered chipset of which has the power n potential to run games at locked 60fps full Native 4k alright Lmao the only graphics card on the market of which is capable of accomplishing Native 4k 60fps is a GTX1080ti alright
YOU CANT COMPARE OFF THE SHELF PC PARTS TO THE XBOX SCORPIO BECAUSE ITS USING FULLY CUSTOM HARDWARE OF WHICH YOU COULD NOT PURCHASE FOR A PC ALRIGHT ITS FULLY CUSTOM SILICON, and also a console will provide twice the performance of an equally spec Pc N SECOND OF ALL THE ONLY GRAPHICS CARD THAT WILL COMPETE WITH SCORPIO IS THE GTX1080ti N AGAIN THAT is the only card currently that's a true 4k 60fps graphics card n that's what Xbox Scorpio will compete with, I mean honestly you can't built a Pc that can compete with Xbox Scorpio for anything under $1800 dollars for a complete Pc build which includes a gtx1080ti
A TITAN XP & GTX 1080ti have Around 11 teraflops for example ok but the issue is that because Pc developers don't have access to ultra low level API like a closed loop console it means that Pc developers can only access roughly 60% of the total teraflops of a Pc graphics card ok which means developers can only access 60% of an 11 teraflops gtx 1080ti which gives them only 6.7 teraflops of compute power to utilize ok ULTRA HIGH END PC CARDS ARE LIKE SUPER POWERFUL MUSCLE CARS OF WHICH HAVE A 900 HORSEPOWER ENGINE BUT CAN ONLY PRODUCE 450 OF THAT HORSEPOWER TO THE WHEELS while a console with a closed loop ultra low level console API allows developers to gain access to nearly 100% of the total power in this case Xbox Scorpio gpu is 6.2 teraflops compared to the 6.7 teraflops of compute power developers can get from a TitanXp or gtx 1080ti since they're only able to utilize 60% of the total teraflops because of the way Pc API works where it's not ultra low access like a closed loop console API, and so this is why the Xbox Scorpio is surprising people it's why it's gonna blow the doors off ultra high end Pc rigs because of the nature of its ultra low level console API and fully custom highly modified insanely over engineered chipset of which has over 60+ hardware level modifications of which is unprecedented in the silicon industry as nothing this customized has ever been created before it's truly remarkable as the engineers made over 60+ modifications TO THE GPU at the hardware level of which removed nearly every conceivable bottleneck area of modern off the shelf Pc graphics cards, and the you gotta consider even a standard console without these insane modifications such as a regular ps4 for example can deliver twice the performance of an equally spec Pc and that's straight from the mouth of one of the most respected video game developers in the industry n I'll copy n paste what he said below ok if you take all of what I've said into consideration then you will understand why XBOX SCORPIO IS A TRUE NATIVE 4K 60FPS GAMING MACHINE MONSTER OF WHICH HAS THE PERFORMANCE OF AN ULTRA HIGH END PC BUT WITH ADDED ADDITIONAL CONSOLE OPTIMIZATIONS PLUS THE HARDWARE LEVEL MODIFICATIONS OF THIS FULLY Custom HARDWARE okay like it or hate it the Xbox Scorpio is the real deal
https://mobile.twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/436012673243693056?lang=en
That link above is developer John Carmack of which is one of the most highly respected video game developers in the industry today of which confirms a console can provide double or twice the performance of an equally paper spec Pc
Only the gameplay needed to be upgraded. Graphics are already great thanks to the "it's windy everywhere! look at my long hair realistically moving even in a sealed cell!" effect.
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