well so was the first one, to be honest the fact that they still don't have a publisher and have not actually started porting it outside of a few levels to see if it's possible I don't see it happening TBH. There is still a chance but it is looking less and less likely, and even if it does happen it won't be for a long time anyway so for the time being I think it's safe to consider it exclusive. 

It's actually supprising that EA or even Sony haven't picked it up.

You strike a fine point.

I doubt I'll manage to finish the first before the second one is out, but I'll try. I'll pre-order it on GOG.com, no DRM at all, and a free game on GOG too (yeah, I'm cheap). everything goes directly to CD Projekt too...

I'm fairly certain this will be my GOTY.

Combat is much better have you seen it in action? it looks much better, in fact it looks better than many action games like Assassin's creed for example, in fact from what the developers have said it's more visceral and is designed to rival hack and slash action action games.

Most probably a wide, open and detailed world taylored to mid range current PCs with at least 2GB main RAM will need next gen consoles to make a port possible. Graphics wouldn't be a problem, but main RAM is, even if Windows latest versions eat 1GB, a game that expects another GB free wouldn't fit well in 256MB without, for example, splitting the levels, or, worse, shrinking and dumbing them down like they did in some PC/XFlop1 multiplats, or making each building, dungeon and other indoor place a separately loaded level, with the outdoors dynamically loaded, like in Morrowind, a system that took some patches to be tweaked to the best looking and smooth performances allowed on PC at higher res, but that was still beaten by the contemporaneous but PC exclusive Gothic, that being able to count on larger RAM could allow longer range visibility (you can go on top of towers and mountains and see for miles an active and alive world, while on Morrowind distance fog kicks in earlier and the furthest creatures visible are "frozen", as they are in a chunk of the outdoors level that will be fully loaded only when you get closer) and with higher detail and continuity between indoors and outdoors. So, if Witcher 2 devs are really determined to not cripple the PC version at all costs, next gen consoles will be needed to make a port possible without major rewritings and specific editing of the levels.

Well from what the developers have said their new engine is scalable enough and streaming technology is good enough to run the game on current gen consoles without major changes and in fact they have done several tests during development and it is possible. And I see no reason to not belive them...

bought the last one (enhanced edition), gave it a go, and didn't like it. After 1 or 2 hours of playing (if I even got that far) I no longer wanted to play it. Because of my experience with witcher 1 I am not greatly intersted in this game. However, if it receives a lot of praise and I like what I see in video reviews, etc. then I will give it ago. For now, I have enough games on my 'want' list that I do not need to add another one!

The first one is definatly a slow burn, the seccond just looks amazing tho. There are definatly a tone of awsome games coming this year, and one of the most RPG heavy years in a long time.

Consider me firmly on this train