The long awaited patch for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was made available just in time for Christmas, as a nice gift to Xbox One X and PS4 Pro owners. On Microsoft's console, the 4K mode is smooth as butter, but the 60 fps mode does not manage to maintain a steady framerate in certain areas, like Novigrad for example. That being said, the patch makes a real difference and was well worth the wait.
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Summary from the Digital Foundry article:
"With its impressive 4K results, newly-introduced HDR support and its alternative performance option, this upgrade is pure fan service from the developer for one of the generation's biggest, most beloved games. We'd been speculating on how this one would turn out for a while, and in many ways it's exceeded expectations."
Link below for those interested in more details on how great the performance is and how much potential the Xbox One X hardware has:
Digital Foundry - The Witcher 3's Xbox One X patch delivers in spades:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2...
All of these games we've been seeing on Xbox One X have been patched after or during release, will be very interesting to see the results of games actively developed with the Xbox One X in mind as well. I'm sure many multiplatform games released in 2018 and 2019 will show even greater results - like Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption 2.
2017 has been a phenomenal year for gaming, both in software and hardware (Nintendo Switch, Xbox One X). Cheers!!!
Sony were first in introducing a mid gen console upgrade just over twice PS4 GPU performance and microsoft as usual copied.
Remember xbone originally released at $500 same price as xbonex with that connect gimmick with significantly weaker hardware than the PS4.
Sony is in a very strong position this gen, if not the strongest it has ever been.
thx guys :)
@MinorDespera
Well, i would say if both Microsoft and Sony do a good Job it's kinda obvious that XBox One X will get more out of the Games (graphically speaking).
6 TFlops vs 4.2 TFlops
12GB GDDR5 vs 8GB GDDR5
I buy all my multiplatform games on PC, so xbonex is not a compelling buy, but I can understand it's appeal to console only players.
PC Gamers have been able to play Witcher 3 at 4K and beyond at 60FPS max settings, so dynamic 4k on xbonex 30fps med-high settings isn't all that impressive imo.
I think the X is about as powerful console (GPU part) as we could reasonably expect in 2017. The times when consoles could approach higher end pc's are far gone. Transistor scaling just isn't like it used to be in 2005 when the 360 released. Not much that can be done about it, but the gap will only be larger the next round.
Back to the original subject, from what i've seen of this X-patched version of Witcher3, i don't think many will be very disappointed with it. Getting a 4K picture with HDR for added bonus on their new 4K HDR tv's.
Sony were first in introducing a mid gen console upgrade just over twice PS4 GPU performance and microsoft as usual copied.
Remember xbone originally released at $500 same price as xbonex with that connect gimmick with significantly weaker hardware than the PS4.
Sony is in a very strong position this gen, if not the strongest it has ever been.
I thought this thread was about The Witcher 3.... pretty good game guys (some might call it the greatest game ever made) Play it!