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makingmusic476 on 07 December 2010
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zgamer5 said:
makingmusic476 said:
Cross-X said:

This game is indeed mighty impressive.

 

I may have to get this next year on PC. Though I wish they'd still continue with Console Versions...


It won't look anything close to that on consoles, I assure you.  :P

I'd also put the general scale of some sections in question, like the battle scene.

wait, isnt it coming on consoles? i remember seeing on its e3 stage demo that it was coming on consoles, or did they cancel that?

They originally stated it was coming to consoles, and they've reiterated that as recently this past May.  However, we have yet to see any sign of the console versions, and Namco has thus far only announced that they're publishing the PC version.

Between that and the fact that the console versions of the first game were canceled late last year, it seems unlikely we'll see the Witcher 2 on consoles anytime close to its PC release, if at all.

Edit:

This is the most recent statement they've given on the console versions:

Should The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings ever arrive on consoles, it’ll do so mere months after the PC versions release. “It just wouldn’t make commercial sense” otherwise, developer CD Projekt Red says.

What are the chance of it actually happening though? Talking at a press event last week, senior producer Tomasz Gop and co-founder and CEO Marcin Iwinski clarified on just that.

“We’ve openly said our technology supports multiplatform,” Iwinski said. “We know how many players, especially in the UK as well as in the US, play on Xbox 360. We are pretty good at maths. That’s all I can say for now.”

“This is too difficult a question because I can’t tell you directly what’s happening inside the studio,” Gop adds. However: “we’re doing everything we can to make sure one day The Witcher 2 will be released on the current generation of consoles.” 

The studio has performed a lot of tests and does “a reality check every half a year or so,” he further explains. “We take a level from the game and we try to put it inside our engine, because it’s console capable on Xbox 360 and PS3.”

“It’s doable.”

If there will in fact be a console version, “it will be a matter of months…I’m fully aware of the fact there are quite a lot of people who don’t have a PC at home anymore.”