The Witcher 4 will put the package on the technical level, but everyone may not fully enjoy it, according to a recent interview with their studio.
On the occasion of the State of Unreal 2025 a few days before Summer Game Fest, The Witcher 4 put your eyes on it with an impressive technical demoturning on the Unreal Engine 5, a priori on PS5 to 60 FPS, with Raytracing included. All this was however too good to be true, and was not in fact a presentation of gameplay. That said, as part of an interview with Digital Foundry experts, his studio wanted to be reassuring about his ambitions for his next title, within the technical limit of the possible.
Refining Ciri techniques in The Witcher 4
Following the technical demo of The Witcher 4, many fear that CD Projekt Red falls back into the communication through communication around Cyberpunk 2077with promises too beautiful to be tenable. During an interview with the analysts of Digital Foundry, the Polish studio just wanted to be reassuring on this point. In any case with regard to performance, the team wants to reproduce errors from the past. So, The Witcher 4 would target the sacrosancts 60 fps consoles on consoles … at least on PS5 and Xbox Series x.
To do this, CD Projekt Red explains that it will first Optimizing The Witcher 4 for consoles In order to ensure that the target framerate is stable there. Unfortunately, the ugly little Kikimorrhe that is the Xbox Series S is still likely to be a problem on this ground. According to the Polish studio and, as we can unfortunately suspect it, ” Maintain 60 FPS on Series S may be extremely difficult. This is something that will ask us for a lot of work and reflection ».
Regarding the PC, the fact that CD Projekt Red first wishes to optimize The Witcher 4 for consoles could be a worrying sign. Given the infinity of possibilities for computer configurations, the rest of The Witcher 3 could have performance problems depending on the material of each. Naturally, it is far too early to assert it, since The Witcher 4 should not go out before 2027/2028. In any case, the fingers are crossed so that the Polish studio refines everything well to find the famous license and Ciri in the best possible form.
Source : Digital Foundry sur YouTube
