The Witcher 3 graphics downgrade ??? (Opinion from a random guy on Internet)

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Qwark said:

 Multiplat takes it's compromises and the consoles ensure big games to make money, since I doubt the Witcher 3 would be the same game in therms of ambition and scale if it was pc-only it would have looked better but at what cost/ In that matter it is ironically that console peasant rants are starting on soe fora.

Back when W1 was released it looked good for it's time and W2 still more or less looks good (OP even using W2 to compare to 3 is telling), despite the 1st being PC only, the 2nd still looked amazing and it only touched one more platform but back then the hardware of last gen was seen as powerfull back then, this gen started weaker and by the time CDPR has had to make downgrades due to this, regardless of it;s budget if it were PC only it would be funded some other way and still would have looked better, you can't claim Console exclusives look better when they are limited to a single platform and not say the same for PC, there's plenty that have looked amazing over the years and Star Citizen for example is entirely fan funded and is the most funded KS game to date and still climbing and that game is looking out of this world and that's due to it being on it's own as per your example and is shining because of it.

I don't actually mind games going multiplat and more or less prefer that but only when the systems can actually handle them and not simply hold back the rest, because this gen is weaker than the last we're already seeing downgrades all over the place a lot more frequently and it's being made known for practically every game that's coming to most systems and at the end of the day since Wii U hardly gets much 3rd party treatment the issues are usually down to the XB1 and PS4, yeah XB1 would take some of the brint of the blame (WIi U is technically the weakest out of the 3) but PS4 is still weak none the less, yes their exclusives do look nice on their system, as do XB1's but when it comes to multiplats I;m seeing parities and one system from another golding the rest back, Witcher is primarily a PC centric franchise so seeing such a downgrade for PC isn't due to the fault of the PC platform itself (like Op is trying to clearly now pin it as and will probably forever use that dev blaming his tools excuse which is not a valid excuse because all tech changes with time and has rapidly changed for many things for decades), it;s mostly due to the other two systems not being as they were originally thought to be before they were released.

I reckon in two more years the games teased before and slightly after current gen systems launch will be out and hopefully by then all devs will know what they are actually capable of and we don't end up seeing so much downgrading going on all over the place, though I would completely reccomend PC centric devs to not step out if they have to sacrifice the quality for their original userbase as it's clearly going backwards than forwards by reaching out and then downgrading.