Polish developer CD Projekt Red has ruled out bringing its upcoming open-world role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.
"It’s
impossible. It would have to be a different game--a smaller game, not
an open-world game, or with terrible loading times, with sacrifices in
graphics," CEO Marcin Iwinski told MCV India.
Instead,
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is coming exclusively to Xbox One, PlayStation
4, and PC sometime later this year. Iwinski also said in the interview
that there is no truth to the rumors that CD Projekt Red is working on a
PS3 version of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.
"We
definitely would have loved to, but The Witcher 2 on PC was so big that
making it work on Xbox 360 took us a year," he said. "The Xbox 360 was a
more powerful and easier-to-code-on platform than PS3, so that would
have taken us another year or year-and-a-half."
Finally,
Iwinski said the difference in quality between the Xbox One/PS4 version
of The Witcher 3 and the PC iteration is "not huge" because the new
consoles are "actually brand new PCs."
"So I
think gamers on each platform will get an extremely good experience and
they should be very satisfied with the quality," he said.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launches later this year. For more, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.
