It will make it's way to the Xbox 360 and perhaps the PS3 too eventually. It just doesn't make financial sense for game dev studios to release big-budget AAA releases exclusively on the PC these days unless it's a Blizzard game (which tends to be optimized well enough to run on more modest hardware. World of Warcraft especially). That's why these games typically make their way to the consoles. A lot of gamers are opposed to upgrading their desktop or building a new one. And then you have laptop users like me that see no use for a desktop other than gaming. I have no real interest in western rpgs so I really don't care if it stays exclusive but there is a huge market these days for western rpgs on the Xbox 360 and to a lesser extent the PS3.

CD Projekt Red have to learn how to optimize their shit if they're going to develop a console port though. Too many of these PC game devs think they can get away with releasing buggy or slow unplayable crap on home consoles Day 1 just because they have updates for console games nowadays.

The main reason I want the Witcher is because it plays like a typical console AAA WRPG we've grown accustomed to. It will own with a controller rather than a keyboard. Plus you've got tons of PC elitists who talk about the Witcher everytime you bring up Dragonage and Mass Effect or any Bioware title for that matter. Atari needs to publish this game for consoles and soon because WRPG's are growing in popularity in the west by leaps and bounds.

Not, not IMO. Objectively it is better because you can objectively count how many keys are on your controller and how many keys are on your keyboard, and objectively that gives you more functionality. I am piss tired of people trying to pass off quantitative facts as opinoins to make themselves feel better. It's like saying that It is subjective that the mouse is better than dual analog sticks for shooters of all kinds.

A controller would be much more annoying with this as I stated in a previous post because a conroller has a PATHETIC number of keys. In fact one of the biggest problems I had with this game is the whole retarded UI where I can only have one sign primed and can't quick switch between them right in combat with keyboard shortcuts. SOmething that can NEVER happen on a controller due to a lack of buttons. Maybe if the game had some form of platforming and stuff it would be better with a controller, but it doesn't.

Also from PA this morning, a direct quote:

"If they’re serious about bringing this to consoles, the first hour of the game needs to go up on the lift. Those nines and tens it’s pulling now won’t survive contact with that audience."

Trnaslated, "most console scrubs won't be liking this"

The best part is I know EXACTLY which part they are talking about, and it took me many deaths to realize exactly WHY I was dying.

Did you at all read the post in this very thread about the shit mechanics they have to make to shoehorn the game on a controller and that they wouldn't exist if the game treated the keyboard as a keyboard not as some limited controller that doesn't have enough buttons?

No sir. You are wrong. There is no functionality that a keyboard offers in Witcher 2 that isn't perfectly mimicked by a 360 controller. Every single meaningful action can be mapped to one of the controller's buttons.

And FYI: don't go spouting off about what you can or can't do unless you read the manual (also read the manual, though that usually requires you to actually legally obtain yoru games, I'm sure). Switching to the next sign is done with 3, the next quick-use item is done with 4.

I don't even have the game installed; I know this stuff because I looked in the manual.

Did you read the part where it plays awesome with a controller?  I don't see how the mechanics are shit if it plays beautifully.

My friend played the Witcher 2 with a controller pad. There should be no argument about its capacity to be on consoles. The only thing they would probably do is drop the graphics level (which shouldnt matter to those who want the gameplay).

Did you at all read the post in this very thread about the shit mechanics they have to make to shoehorn the game on a controller and that they wouldn't exist if the game treated the keyboard as a keyboard not as some limited controller that doesn't have enough buttons?