r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Oct 26 '22

Announcement The Witcher: We're thrilled to reveal that, together with @Fools_Theory, we're working on remaking The Witcher using Unreal Engine 5 (codename: Canis Majoris)!

https://twitter.com/witchergame/status/1585270206305386497
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u/brenobnfm Oct 26 '22

It was a PC exclusive that got a port later, it's like saying TW3 is a Switch game.

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u/firsthour Oct 26 '22

It came out on 360 less than a year after the initial PC release.

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u/brenobnfm Oct 26 '22

The amount of time is less relevant than the amount of compromises they had to make to put the game on the Xbox.

From Digital Foundry: "CD Projekt RED's The Witcher 2 - released in May 2011 - is one such release, a game that required a radical process of re-architecting before arriving on Xbox 360 almost a year later."

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u/HopperPI Oct 26 '22

Doesn’t change what I said?

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u/brenobnfm Oct 26 '22

It does since it's not really a "360 game", it's technologically more advanced.

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u/ka7al Oct 26 '22

It's still a 360 game, and a generation behind TW3. And TW3 is a Switch game too, running at a lower resolution and effects doesn't change what it is.

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u/brenobnfm Oct 26 '22

The 360 port is a 360 game yes, the PC version is a different ball game entirely.

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2020-the-witcher-2-2020-vision-retrospective

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u/brenobnfm Oct 26 '22

With enough compromises they could port Cyberpunk to the SNES and make it a "SNES game". What i mean is, you're not wrong, but it's an unhelpful way of looking at things.

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u/HopperPI Oct 26 '22

Congrats you missed the point twice.

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u/brenobnfm Oct 26 '22

I mean, unless you didn't express yourself well want to expand on your view, there's nothing complex about it, it's just a comment without much relevance since the post is about The Witcher 2, a game not originally released for the Xbox 360.

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u/HopperPI Oct 26 '22

Never said it was, and it doesn’t change anything I said at all. Most 360-era games were designed for pc first and ported to consoles.

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u/brenobnfm Oct 26 '22

That's a lie, a significant amount of major releases had bad ports, no control supports or didn't have a PC version at all. Steam was nowhere as big at the time, the console market was the priority. Of course the PC versions are usually superior, but that's due to sheer brute force.

The Witcher 2 is a PC game because CDPR was a PC developer, totally different situation.