The Witcher 4 is a console-first game, and Cyberpunk 2077 is to blame

The Witcher 4 is being developed with consoles first in mind, as developer CD Projekt Red aims to avoid a similar fiasco to the launch of Cyberpunk 2077. A recent Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 tech demo gave us our first big preview of how the new RPG is shaping up, and it certainly looks stunning. But the showcase was running on a standard Playstation 5, rather than the typical PC demos we’re often used to seeing for such presentations, and the studio says this decision was a result of the “many problems” it encountered during its previous release.

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