Digital Foundry: The Witcher 3 Patch 1.07 (Xbone/PS4 Drops Performance)

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SvennoJ said:

ZyroXZ2 said:
It was a game designed for PC, and thus the consoles are struggling to run it smoothly. There's going to be a sacrifice made somewhere to achieve whatever goal it may be (image quality at the cost of framerate, framerate at the cost of image quality). Even a PC has to be fairly beefy to "have it all".

Instead of blaming the devs for trying to run against the metal on the PS4/Xbox One, try accepting what you got and just be happy with it? They're obviously trying to find a balance between image quality and performance, but until they find a happy median, can people NOT be so dramatic?! >.>

It's not just performance issues though (although the excruciating load times were definately off-puting)
Broken quests to the point the game was unfinishable for some people at launch, unfinished unwieldy inventory system, unrefined control system, and tons of other bugs. That has nothing to do with designing for PC, the game was simply not finished. It was a playable beta at launch.
Luckily the patches were fast enough to solve the biggest game breaking bugs before I got there, yet I still ended with unsatisfying glitchy final quests, a couple of unfinishable side quests and some quests that were somehow marked as failed while completing them much earlier. (at least those didn't affect my ending, yet for some people it did) And tons of small and bigger glitches along the way to the point of having to reload a couple times or getting killed by spawning in the air after getting too close to the map edge.

It was still a good experience overall with excellent writing in places, yet the whole felt very rough.

http://thewitcher.com/news/view/906
When we release the most important game in our studio’s history, we must be absolutely sure that we did everything we could to limit any bugs to a level that will allow you to enjoy the game thoroughly.
Failed.

Thats not my experience at all. Its clear the game acts up in some situations and some people get a terrible experience and that sucks but more often than not when they complain its as if they've played a different game entirely. Playable beta? Nope, not for me at least and I've been playing from day 1.