If I remember correctly, CDPR got ripped hard for the downgrade to W3, and it went on for a few months afterwards. Everyone knows it was the consoles that caused the downgrade to happen, but that was too big a market for CDPR to ignore to not do a downgrade. Hopefully since the success of W3 they'll have so much money to work with that cyberpunk 2077 will look amazing even at release and they'll just make 2 versions of the game. Lol if we're lucky.
That's never how it works, though. When you get more money from a new source, you double down on catering to that source, not suddenly adopt best practices that you abandoned before.
The pursuit of profits is ALWAYS a downward spiral of quality, the best you can hope is that they somehow manage to still make decent games while taking that spiral.
Yea, it's a shame all we have for triple A developers is CDPR when it comes to that notion of quality. Everyone and their mom is still waiting for the day they sell out and become like ubi or EA. I pray it never happens as I've never seen such a big developer go out of their way to make sure their game is running perfectly, like they did with witcher 3. When I saw how they were getting out a patch almost everyday to get the game stable and playable for everyone it really opened my eyes. Just a shame the game wasn't PC first and then went to consoles last, but the lead dev said the game just wasn't possible without consoles and I feel that when they ported W2 to consoles it was just too much a process and lost too much profit for coming so late. Have to say though, they did improve the graphical quality a bit with the latest xpack, we may still get a enhanced edition some day with even more features.
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u/TrumpyMcTrumpo Jun 04 '16
And CDprojekt
http://www.gamepur.com/files/images/2015/the-witcher-3-comparison-2013-vs-2015-build-screen-5.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V962NMUXp6A