CDPR's PS4 Pro & XB1X Support Shames Major Publishers Raking In A Lot More Money from Their Games

CDPR's recent PS4 Pro and Xbox One X patches for The Witcher III are so good that they shame developers like EA, Ubisoft and Rockstar, whose Battlefield 1, Rainbow Six Siege and GTA Online games still don't support the new consoles by Sony and Microsoft.

[LavaLampGoo]

CDPR once again being a delightfully lofty industry standard

[HotMess]

Yeah it still sounds like it sucks to work for them l.

[codelyoko]

It sucks to work for any developer, period. The game industry is just built like that.

[quent]

Well not everyone can go work for Oprah

[DeadlyFire]

Doing work right only sucks if your lazy.

[Cobra951]

codelyoko, been there, done that. We start out eagerly wanting to be creative and to write great games, then reality sinks in over years in the salt mines. The programmers and creative people in general tend to get flogged by the business end of the studios, and the sad fact is that even they seldom have a choice. They need to meet deadlines and stay within budgets. "The game industry is just built like that." Perfectly said.

[ULTp0ltergeist]

I don't think other publishers have been shamed one bit LUL! Such a delusional article. CDPR is their own style of development but Witcher 3 took a beating on them. That is why most publishers don't follow their model because they wouldn't last.

[KaiPow]

What's EA's excuse for not supporting Battlefield on the X? Unfair advantage over S players?

[InKnight7s]

Whats EA excuse for those who don't have double 1080 Ti gpu, i9, hyper ssd and liquid coolers, 64gb rams with 3 4k screen have advantage over gtx 960, i5, 8gb rams and just FHD secreen? Just play the thing at maximum as possible.

[UltraNova]

Its up to the devs -Phil said.

Now its the devs fault?

[CertifiedGamer]

The console companies have requested developers keep frame-rate parity on multiplayer servers. Meaning the resolution is different but frame-rate is the same. It is not like PC at all.

[slavish0]

link?

[Chris_Wray]

Although CD Projekt Red has had it's issues with reputation of how it treats employees lately, this is a pure sign of a company that knows how to treat consumers. They actually improve and build games up, where other, richer companies just shit on gamers and attempt to milk them for everything they can. Hell, I'm waiting for the ultra-hd copies of such as BF1, COD WW2 etc to be released, at full price.

[mastiffchild]

I cannot get a great read on quite what the employee situation is at CDPR-having had stories slating their attitude towards their workers as well as those stating that the treatment is pretty industry typical.

Certainly, it seems the games industry is a stressful arena all round with even studios often in the running for "best place to work" awards like Insomniac not without occasional gripes from ex employees. Who knows what, or how much, is really accurate?

Either way, it's no surprise CDPR are still bothered how their masterpiece looks and plays whereas EA do not bother much post release etc.

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

Battlefield has Pro support but since the #'s are dwindling over the past year EA is not going to push for that. GTA V though is kind of a mystery? I have 265 hours in TW3, but have yet to start Blood and Wine, looks like I need to dive back for another 50+ hours!

[Krysis]

Toussaint is such a nice change of pace from the dreary Vellen and rain soaked Novigrad. While the settings in both add to the experience, blood and wine is colorful.

[Darkwatchman]

Battlefield 1 has ps4 pro support

[Alexious]

Yes, it's specified in the article. But there's no word about Xbox One X support yet.

[NoPeace_Walker]

Ubisoft gave a great enhanced version of Ghost Recon wildlands with including high PC enhancements and the original BC X360 Assassin's Creed 1 was enhanced to native 4K on the X. So they are much better than EA and Rockstar in making more effort of supporting the newer more powerful consoles at least.

[Bigpappy]

I am not sure how CDPR supporting one game shames UBI who has shown much love to the se consoles, especially the X, with several Assassin Creed games being supported, along with Ghost Recon and For Honor.

[Yi-Long]

Already bought W3 on day 1 for PS4. On Black Friday also bought the GOTY for the XBO, cause I intend to buy the XBO X next year once MS can be bothered to put a 2TB HDD in and bundle it with a nice game.

[babadivad]

Why wait for MS, just buy a 4TB external HDD for the $100 premium Microsoft is gonna charge you for the extra TB of space.

[Yi-Long]

I don't want to waste extra money on yet another external HDD. It's ridiculous to see MS skimp on the HDD with a 4K console. 1TB is a joke.

I expect them to release an XBO X with bigger HDD before March, possibly bundled with Forza Horizon 3 or something. Hopefully in white.

[Krysis]

Lol, I like your style.

[TheColbertinator]

@YiLong

You are a sharp customer.

[Kumakai]

Seriously. They took both systems to their respective 11s.

[kwijgaming]

I'm crossing my fingers that they don't suddenly go belly up or something. They're one of my favourite devs and I love to hear how well they treat their customers and their games.

[r3f1cul]

cdpr shames just about all other game devs because they still care about quality... every other game dev seems determined to give the bare minimum quality to milk customers for everything they are worth ... its basically as little effort as possible into a slot machine and hacked pieces of content wrapped in what appears to be a game but really is just a soulless money scheme ... the difference between normal games and great games these days is this simple - if you are left wanting more, or deserving more ... and a lot of games leave me feeling like i deserved more, while the witcher just left me wanting more but being so happy with what i did get lol

[DarXyde]

Studio is a gem. I've heard employees have mixed feelings working there, but let it be known that their efforts are deeply appreciated.

[DEEBO]

I have the witcher3 on ps4 pro and the X1X and it's really a big jump with the HDR and unlocked frame rate.

I wanted to see if there really was a difference or was these gaming sites just talking but it's a difference between the games and poor pc players getting the short end without HDR.

The colors!

[mochachino]

CDPR shames most companies business practices. Now that I think about it, CDPR games put most developers to shame too.

[TacoTaru]

It's the difference between a company that needs to make a profit by providing the best possible service and a corporation that wants to make as much money as possible to support a bloated corporate structure and investors while providing as little as possible in return.

[TheDarkArtisan]

Because they are one of the rare developers who make games, primarily for the joy of gamers, and not to wring every last penny out of ones pockets. The free DLC, constant updates that listened to gamers experiences, and true value for money expansion DLCs, really show how low EA, and other greedy developers and publishers truly are. No foul stench of microtransactions to be found with CDPR.

[CertifiedGamer]

The other companies did do upgrades. Battlefield1 is 720P on XB1 and 4K on XB1X and also 1080P on PS4 and 1440P on PS4 Pro.

[slavish0]

when did battlefield 1 get upgraded?

[CertifiedGamer]

Since the upgrades were available

[slavish0]

https://www.windowscentral....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

Not sure who told you it was upgraded outside of hdr

[CertifiedGamer]

Resolution Upgrade

[slavish0]

There is no upgrade Thats y u have no link.