The Witcher 3 Complete Edition Uses 32 GB Card, Runs At Dynamic 720p Resolution

Details on the resolution and download size for The Witcher 3 Complete Edition for Nintendo Switch.

[Jin_Sakai]

Getting this game running on Switch seems nothing short of a miracle.

[DarXyde]

More than anything, it is a testament to the skill of CD Projekt Red. I wouldn't call it a miracle since any game can be scaled to meet the capability of the hardware: you could get The Witcher III to run on PS2 if you have the discs and downgrade to do so. The game would essentially need to be remade in that case, but you see my point.

Having The Witcher III on Switch is a huge deal. It really shows how much developers are embracing Nintendo.

[harmny]

embracing nintendo? it just seems to me like easy money. the game is already made and its considered a masterpiece. switch is like 35 million potential users.
drop some devs there and you can relaunch the game and keep people talking about the witcher. sounds like a no brainer to me.
embracing nintendo would be to launch cyberpunk on switch.

[Stanjara]

It really shows how much the platform is making money.

[oasdada]

its not a testament to the skill of CD project red because the switch port is being handled by Saber Interactive

[RedDevils]

Assassin Creed remaster did alright on switch maybe witcher could as well. Just a maybe.

[mikeslemonade]

LOL! why bother

Even Witcher 3 on base PS4 was crap.

[bouzebbal]

32GB like FFX? Interesting.. But how does it perform in handheld? That's the question

[vergilxx3]

It's not cd project Red who's doing the port, read the article next time
It's Saber interactive

[DarXyde]

vergilxx3,

Two things...

1. I'm well aware CDPR is not handling the port directly; it wouldn't make sense because they're making Cyberpunk 2077 and, to my knowledge, they aren't split into teams.

2. Ports are traditionally done in consultation with the original developers -- good ports, anyway. Saber hasn't really been known to take the reins of such a massive undertaking as The Witcher, and I certainly do not believe the successful transition to Switch is within the scope of their skillset. So yes, I credit CDPR.

[Army_of_Darkness]

Nintendo fan "it's not about the graphics! It's about the mobility and convenience of playing it anywhere I want! Game Looks amazing for being able to play it handheld! So there! :-P"
Copy and paste reasoning for every downgraded full priced year old game on switch....

[Dragonscale]

@mikes, if it was crap on base PS4 which it wasn't, it must've been absolutely god awfull on base xbone then lol.

[Jin_Sakai]

@mikeslemonade

“LOL! why bother”

“Even Witcher 3 on base PS4 was crap.“

The Nintendo troll strikes again. Nearly every article since E3. Keep up the hard work!

There’s plenty of games to enjoy on Switch. Having The Witcher 3 is just a bonus.

[mikeslemonade]

^Witcher 3 ran kinda crappy on my 980ti back then. That’s why 30 frames on PS4 would have been crap, let alone the last gen Switch.

[SegaGamer]

I'm sorry, but how is this a miracle? The game has literally been massively downgraded in every single area you can think of.

This isn't a miracle, it's something that is possible with any game if the devs are interested enough in doing it.

[UltraNova]

I guess Nintendo fans dont care about bleeding edge visuals....so why do you?

PS: Don't shoot the messenger!

[SegaGamer]

@UltraNova

But I didn't criticise the visuals, I just said that it's not a miracle that it's running on the Switch because of the downgrades. I actually think this is a good thing that it's on the Switch. I'm all in favour of gamers getting to play as many games as possible no matter what way they prefer to play.

[bluefox755]

Yeah, people are pretending not to notice the downgraded visuals, I don't believe them. It's a massive downgrade and painfully obvious. That's fine and certainly expected, but it's silly to pretend like this is some sort technical marvel.

[hiawa23]

I agree 100%. Any game can be ported if downgraded enough, but its portable, right..

[OCEANGROWNKUSH]

If somebody told you 10 years ago you could play a game like Witcher 3 on what is essentially a fucking Gameboy you would laugh in their face.

If you want visuals thats what literally every other platform is for. You want portability? Switch.

[Eidolon]

Yeah it's great, but really, anyone wanted to truly dive into this game should not be playing it on the Switch. Of course, if thats the only option..

[Brave_Losers_Unite]

You can get Witcher 3 running on a gameboy. Itll just look like crap like it does on the Switch.

[MadLad]

Best looking handheld game I've ever seen.
Just saying.

[Magog]

Miracles aren't ugly they're beautiful.

[MadLad]

They did an amazing job when they ported Witcher 2 to 360.
One of the most technically impressive games on the system.

[NXFather]

Well it is checkerboard 720.

[Orionsangel]

They might as well run Witcher 3 on the Nvidia Shield TV.

[Donnie81]

You actually writing a comment not trashing Xbox might be an even bigger miracle :)

[mandingo]

Dynamic 720p is very much short of a miracle

[TimeSkipLuffy]

Play the game on a platform it deserves to dive into its most full potential.

[MadLad]

A high-end PC?
Using your logic, there's no reason to play it on console in general.

[jznrpg]

Not a miracle , make the draw distance short , take a lot of details out and lower the resolution and you have a 12 year old PC or Switch game

[porkChop]

I'm surprised they got it to run. You can clearly tell the graphics were toned down, but it actually doesn't look too bad considering the scale of the game.

[fonger08]

I’m not so much concerned as to the resolution but as to what the frame rate situation will be like. If it’s 720p and at a stable 30fps... then I might consider the double dip, particularly to finally go through the DLC.

[Hroach616]

Both DLC’s are fantastic. Blood and wine might as well be a smaller but just as packed and lovingly made sequel. And hearts of stone is a great new questline/story with a bunch of new items and weapons. If you loved Witcher 3 you are going to be wondering why you didn’t dip back into these sooner.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

This makes any other developer/publisher requiring downloads look like fools, since the entire Complete Edition fits on the 32GB cart.

[MASTER_RAIDEN]

I see what you mean, but for what its worth, nintendo actually pushed back the release of 32gb cards (and up) until earlier this year. so all games prior to that were only working with 16gb cards at most. plus, the GOTY addition is only like 40something gigs on ps4. scale back even some graphics and that saves a lot of space.

[Segata]

No, Dragon Quest Heroes came on 32GB cart at launch. 32GB carts been there since the start but just very costly. Nintendo is looking to release the 64GB cart this year.

[MetroidFREAK21]

Exactly. This better change how devs release their games now.

[TheGamez100]

720ps fine for the handheld mode, it just better run good.

[Eonjay]

It is 540p in handheld and 720p in docked mode.

[blackblades]

540p that's to low for some people.

[AspiringProGenji]

My eyes...

[Segata]

Well, 540P is the same resolution as a Vita. So that's fine I guess. Better than Nintendo's own Xenoblade 2 in handheld. That thing is like 240P it looks awful in handheld. Torna looked fine tho.

[Soybetaboy]

Wtf, 540pppppppppppppp

[NXFather]

@AspiringproGenji

When did I or my guy/my clone make a promise that I have now changed?

[Imortus_san]

Better wait for the digital foundry piece to confirm those 540p, since some not open world games have gone as low as 400p.

[Knushwood Butt]

'The resolution was revealed to be dynamic 720p in docked mode while in handled, the game will have a limit of 540p.'.

[AmUnRa]

So NXFather was right, it is checkerboard 720p in dockmode😉

[sin7279]

Dynamic 720p not native 720p!

[Prince-Ali]

DYNAMIC! lool meaning it's gonna fluctuate looool how wildly... we shall leave that up to digital foundry to let us know

[masterfox]

yay 2019! 720p good job Nintendo!, I mean daammnnn, yeah people keep glorifying Nintendo.

[Jin_Sakai]

“yay 2019! 720p good job Nintendo!, I mean daammnnn, yeah people keep glorifying Nintendo.”

Take your glorified home console and shrink it into a portable device and see what happens.

I’m all for amazing graphics and high frame rates but I do realize what Nintendo Switch is.

[Cmv38]

You don't even recognize the fallacy you just used. Why would I want to see what happens when I have no interest in portable gaming. Y'all Nintendo fans get upset way too fast

[Neonridr]

@Cmv38 - Jin is saying that what do you expect. The system is 1/20th the size of a PS4 yet you expect parity.

[Doge]

@Cmv38

Dude who even are you and why are you upset?

[Jin_Sakai]

“I have no interest in portable gaming.“

Then why are you commenting in a Nintendo Switch article? Lmao.

[Prince-Ali]

So wait.. whats gonna be the excuse when next gen people are streaming to portable devices..? games in MUCH higher framerates and graphical fidelity..? loool im just curious..? Literally like a year and a half from now..?

[chrisoadamson]

Switch is a home console dude. As Nintendo themselves state

[King_Noctis]

Witcher 3 in handheld mode in 2019. Which other console can do that? And please, don’t just be a stupid troll and not reply people like you always do.

[TheFirstClassic]

I would get this if there was a switch pro, might be a bit hard to justify otherwise unless they keep real close to those resolutions.

[Elda]

Saw the trailer & I saw jaggies & some blurriness.

[KeenBean345]

Will be really interesting to see how this runs. I imagine quite a few developers will keep tabs on the sales/performance to see how worth it porting games is to the switch. So far it's proven money but this is a different beast of a game. If it has a stable 30 fps in handheld I'll definitely pick it up again

[Benficaman]

Nice for Nintendo fans at least for those with only the switch.

[Father__Merrin]

This is an old game it's been released on pc and consoles. How is this some kind of victory? Its the full game but dubmed down heavily seems like a cash in to me. Release cyberpunk day and date with the rest and il believe they embracing nintenso

[Segata]

How drunk were you when you typed this?

[Kribwalker]

Man, got dust off my PS3 and play the witcher 2 again before this one comes out again

[FallenAngel1984]

Witcher 2 isn’t on PS3...

[dRanzer]

Busted!

[Kribwalker]

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😉😉🤣

[Vegamyster]

Kribwalker

I understand that reference and i can't believe i remember poking that guy lol.

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[Kribwalker]

quite often when i hear about the witcher that pops back up in my head lol

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

LMAO 😂

[adonisisfree]

It runs but with ps2 caliber graphics

[EddieNX]

No it doesn't. Try better than PS3 graphics.

[MetroidFREAK21]

That's really mad impressive that the port staff and OG developers manage to do this. I'm also glad they are not cheaping out and are for all I know, this is the first game to utilize a 32GB cart. I'm not worried about the resolution as long as the game is fun. I can get this on my PC, Xbox or PS4 but I'm getting it on Switch because I want to support the hardworking devs and the non cheap nature of the company with the 32GN cart. Simply impressive

[akaFullMetal]

Impressive sand hopefully it runs well. Finally Nintendo is using 32 GB cards hopefully this opens up more games and don't need to download half the game now that there is enough space on the card.

[Cobra951]

And they even used my favorite music track in the reveal video. Instant goosebumps. Sword up!

Let's see if they can keep it moving fluidly in battles and big cities. Roaming around the open countryside even on the horse shouldn't be terribly taxing.

[MadLad]

And while the majority on here were saying it couldn't be done, and crapping on the switch, I just kept reminding people of the amazing port of Witcher 2 that they brought to the 360.

[Donnie81]

Dynamic 720p! That’s absolutely pathetic! Nintendo isn’t playing with power anymore

[Razmiran]

Are you really holding over them a 1986 phrase?

[Donnie81]

Not really but it sounded good at the time. I like Nintendo just wish they would put out a capable home console that can play these games properly.

[Razmiran]

Why?
You already have 2 consoles focused on power
Have a third one focused on something else. It does not catch your intrest? Then do not buy it

[Relientk77]

540p in handheld mode. Wow that's awful.

[Segata]

Same resolution as The Vita

[SkatterBrain]

thanks for the info , article Maker

[Tazzy]

I never played these games but I heard they're great it's great for Switch owners and I seen people that already have the game are getting it for Switch they're true fans and it shows. In all honesty the only reason the developers put it on Switch is because of the install base for the console I wouldn't doubt they put the first 2 on it also to make it complete Rockstar has been quiet with releasing GTA or Red Dead games. The Witcher 3 has been toned down and because it's on weaker hardware the same can be said about backwards compatibility older games look better because they're on more powerful consoles this isn't surprising this game will sell well there's no doubt.

[ZwVw]

How long before "Witcher 3 is best played on Switch" articles start appearing?

[Einhander1971]

At last developers are starting to realise the Switch is booming, and money to be made.

[CJLogix]

To conserve space for the game cartridge, Geralt only has 3 responses dialogs, yeah, uh huh, and no.

[jznrpg]

It must look pretty crappy , I am sure the draw distance is like 6inches

[septemberindecember]

They showed the draw distance in the trailer. And it's significantly larger than 6 inches.

[Kitt92]

540p resolution and probably like 10-20fps dunno if that’s worth the porting the game

[jonivtec]

540p...is still 200p better than xenoblades 2 so....its not that bad considering the visual...

[King_Noctis]

Man I remember that. Xeno2 was so blurry in handheld that it was almost unplayable for me.

[Vaderhoff]

Just a note, the guys who made World War Z, remastered Ghostbusters The Video Game, and played a part in developing the Master Chief Collection, are handling this port. It's not much, thought I'd share as I feel like they're not getting quite enough recognition for the work they've done overall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

[Xaywhat]

This is one of the games of the gen for me and I think I’ll support CD for putting the effort to port this to the switch. Freaking loving the switch, most for portability. PS4 is for the TV.

[Realms]

Maybe just maybe people should wait and see how it runs on the Switch before getting all jazzed up about this. The game has had to be massively down graded to run on the Switch just saying.

[OpenGL]

This is an interesting achievement but I wouldn't ever want to play the game this way. I know it's difficult to compare given the form factor but for reference the Xbox One X version runs at 9x the resolution of the Switch version with higher visual settings, and likely a more stable framerate.

[m2stech]

Human eyes can not see more than 480p

[JCOLE13195]

Truly hope you’re being sarcastic. Otherwise, what an incredibly stupid thing to say.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

That's great news; it also opens the door for Kingdom Hearts 3.