TheJimbo1234 said:
Steam has a lot of very low end PC owners on it. Hell, some people are still using Windows XP. A better indicication are gpu sales and then if you look at high end game surveys e.g Star Citizen. The majority of people in that game are (500k) running with top end i5's or i7's, and enthusiast graphics cards. Combine this with the magic of graphics options and you can cater for all users. To cap the high graphics so much smacks of a broken engine....which lets be honest, is highly likely considering how bad the Witcher 2 engine was for performance. |
Star Citizen is kinda a go to game for people with high end PCs though, it is more of a benchmark, so it kinda skews the results by itself. You can make a graphically OK game and cater to pretty much 90% of the people or you can spend millions to cater to the top few million players which will probably buy your game anyway. I'm not saying this was CDPRs reasoning, but it makes sense for a medium sized studio.
