CD Projekt RED Says the Next Generation is 'Going to be Awesome' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 November 2019 / 2,495 Views
CD Projekt Red's John Mamais in an interview with GameSpot said the more powerful the next generation of consoles are the better it is for him as a developer.
"It's going to be awesome," Mamais said when asked about the upcoming release of the next generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Scarlett, in Holiday 2020.
"It's always cool to have new consoles coming out and I can't wait to work on those things. We'll see what we can do with those. It's fun watching games evolve; they're looking more and more realistic, which is--I like working on games like that. The more powerful the technology, or the consoles, the more it is [good] for me as a game developer."
The next game from CD Projekt Red, Cyberpunk 2077, will launch for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC on April 16, 2020. It will also release for Google Stadia.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Wish they'd mention this sort of thing in regards to the new tech we keep seeing in the PC sector.
That's what I'm saying. They don't care about the tech available for PCs because they design their games for the tech that's available on consoles. PC is not their priority because it's not where their primary paying audience is. Whatever tech is available on PCs is largely useless when it comes to gaming until consoles start using that tech. Consoles simply provide a middle ground where the price of the hardware is cheap enough so the masses can afford it while powerful enough to keep most devs happy. there's no point in a dev worrying about the latest and greatest PC hardware on the market when hardly anyone owns it.
@Sarkar PC makes up about ~25% of all gaming sales, while console is at ~26-27%. Console isn't their "primary paying audience."
Also, the tech available on PC is generally equal, if not a little better than console. For instance, the most popular GPU on the steam hardware survey is the GTX1060, which is a little more powerful than the PS4 Pro graphics card.
So is CDPR lying to us then? They are the ones who said a game like Witcher 3 is not feasible as a PC only title, as in there's no way in hell they could make a game of this budget for PC only. While we know for a fact that games of such scale are made exclusively for a console and not only are they feasible but also thrive.
So either PC gamers do not spend enough money on a game to justify it's existence, or CDPR are anti-PC and just spreading lies to malign the PC master race.
Yeah, they're liars if they said that. Based on some google searching, they sold ~10 million copies of Witcher 3 in one year. The development costs were about $81 million. If only half those sales were on PC, they'd still make a profit if they sold Witcher 3 for $20-25 apiece on PC alone. To date they've sold 40 million copies, not to mention DLC profits.
Sorry, to date they've sold over 20 million of Witcher 3. 40m was for the entire Witcher franchise.
"So either PC gamers do not spend enough money on a game to justify it's existence, or CDPR are anti-PC and just spreading lies to malign the PC master race".
@Sarkar I see after your previous ban that you're still looking for a reason to dunk on PC and pick a fight.
How long you planning to last on this site?, because going that route's gonna get you banned pretty quickly.
Mate, it doesn't "hurt my fee fees", because we know it's a crock of shit of a lie. Companies and studios can easily lie and have been proven to do so throughout time itself.
I'm not a mod, but I'm just letting you know that your anti PC stance and behaviour is what will get you canned, because this site has had enough of that mentality over the years, and it is no longer welcomes, no matter who spouts so called "facts" that supposedly hurt one's fee fees.
The only fanboy here, is you, and that garbage mentality. I'd drop it if I were you, for your own sake and everyone else's. Virtually zero need for it.
Also, if you didn't care to stay here, you wouldn't be posting. Those that say they don't care, should prove it by just walking away and doing nothing, otherwise they prove the point that they do in fact care, and want something out of it.
Why would CDPR be lying though? And why is it that no other big publisher makes games centered squarely at the PC market? Clearly because there’s no money in it for them. I can’t believe that they have some personal bias against PCs, it’s clearly all about the money for them.
I always was told games are cheap on PC I built a very high end one earlier this year and I noticed something only games that are cheap on PC are the ones that have been cracked and can just be downloaded for free from any one of the hundred piracy sites. Games that can’t be cracked like the service based ones can be gotten cheaper on consoles like I was looking for Destiny Forsaken last week and no cheap price for that on PC because Bungie doesn’t need to sell it for dirt cheap to compete with free.
Witcher 3 sold majority of its copies on consoles when it launched then a couple years later PC started selling when it was dirt cheap because it was finally time for all the PC players who’d pirated it to finally start “supporting the devs”. This is why they don’t care to talk about PC tech.
And why would you treat their word as gospel?. You seem to put far too much stock into one's words, simply because they fit your ideal view of a platform you use.
I think you forget on what sorts of games are made for PC, but instead you center it only around one particular genre and game type, which stems from a narrow thought process.
There has been money in it for them. Going by the current sales data, PC has the most sales. The long-tail, which is the most important for their lifeblood, has prevailed.
Mate, everyone has bias whether you care to admit that or not (you yourself contain heavy doses of it within this very comments section).
If it was clearly all about the money, then we'd be seeing yet another carbon copy of EA/Activision style business models, except we haven't when it comes to CDP.
You don't appear to be looking hard enough, let alone the right places. If you wish to know more about PC gaming, rather than basing it off poor information and biased articles, you could hop into our main PC thread, and discuss the platform deals there.
Games that aren't cracked can also be bought for cheap on PC's, just as much as consoles btw.
Also, Bungie just started selling it on a new storefront for their new venture, so no, I wouldn't expect their newest content, let alone semi old, to be sold for peanuts on a new platform in their eyes. The rest of D2's content within the past two expacts comes with the base game on Steam, which is completely free, which is an amazingly good deal for new players to the game (myself included) on Steam.
No, majority seals are on PC, I think you'll find: https://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news/69051/445-per-cent-of-the-witcher-3-sales-between-2015-and-2018-were-on-pc/
There are still plenty of devs talking about tech on PC, like raytracing, Anti aliasing, fire, water and image techniques. You just aren't paying attention to any of those talks.
Mobile gaming has more players than consoles, makes more than consoles, with PC being in second place for user base and profit, and consoles in third. PC gaming isn't "dead", nor is it "useless" either, or full of pirates as you make it out to be, as you also did in the thread you were banned in.
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