They are probably genius! Maxed out two consoles 2 months after release!! And I remember how ND said PS3 was maxed out this year in TLOU and 343 talked about maxing out 360 in 2012... Well, take that ND and 343!!

I think this will be the shortest gen ever because the consoles are so close to PC's that they will get maxed out much sooner than later, unless they are reserving/locking power for future years. I do not think CDProjekt is lying.

We hear this every gen and then all of a sudden "We some how found some extra power hiding in the back of the PS4 to make our next game the truly maxed out PS4 version. But wait there's more..."

Probably, as PS4 uses a PC-like architecture and the Witcher games are mainly developed on PC, they are close to maxing out the CURRENT capabilities of PS4 HW/SW setup, but surely too, the current system SW doesn't max out HW capabilities yet: in the next years dev tools, standard libraries and drivers will be improved and refined, increasing the part of optimization that is out of game developers reach. It won't be fast, changes must be done gradually and carefully to avoid worsening stability, and there are some optimizations, like loop unrolling, where performances increase implies larger code size, so some trade-offs can become necessary.

lol...
The claim certainly came sooner than for the PS3 though.

a wiiu version would be good due to having a tablet screen for inventory

I dont understand how you guys can feel threatened by this. Witcher 3 is going to be both visually impressive and massive at the same time. Of course it would be the game to push the consoles. WRPG's should be the games pushing consoles. If it has 120 hours worth of content, expect some chugging. Very few games will match the amount of content.

Yeah...they were maxing out a lot of PCs with their initial build of Witcher 2 as well. Some actual code optimization later and...wouldn't you just damn know it, the blasted thing started running on lower spec systems just as well. Tsk tsk tsk...

Seriously though, I'm worried for how this game will perform on consoles. Both Witcher games have been terrible at launch in terms of performances, and still are in some areas, even after massive patches.

Witcher 2 on 360 ran really well.

Notice the "launch" part of my post please. I'm sure it will run well after a while, but at launch right now I'm worried that we'll be seeing performance issues.