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CD Projekt Red stays coy on whether The Witcher 4 can run on current-gen consoles, including Xbox Series S

Developer CD Projekt Red refuses to be drawn on whether an Xbox Series S or current gen consoles can run The Witcher 4 - plus more context on its future launch.

Since The Witcher 4's impressive, ultra-high-fidelity debut trailer at The Game Awards last week, there's been a fair bit of consternation from fans as to whether it'll actually be playable on current-gen hardware. More simply: it might be reasonable to infer that this first trailer would count as one of those "cool assets" releasing as an earlier tease - establishing we're playing as Ciri, and some basic foundations of lore such as her having become a fully fledged witcher - but still coming a little way before that roughly 18-month countdown. He also noted that the studio now develops all of its games on the "lowest" spec hardware, such as consoles, at the same time as it does on PC, rather than its old method of working to PCs first and going backwards from there - one of the many causes for Cyberpunk's launch woes.

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