The technical demo of ‘The Witcher 4’ has left the players community speech and has become the star demo of the State of Unreal 2025where Epic Games has presented the latest news regarding its star graphic engine. A waste of overwhelming graphics that, at the same time, summarizes one of the great problems of the industry: being always dealing with futures.
What has been seen. First of all, it should be emphasized that the seen is a technical demo IN-ENGINENot a video In-game. That is, it is the Unreal Engine 5 running in real time, nothing of a CGI scene, but it is not a captured fragment of the game. In this case it ran in a PlayStation 5, but CD Projakt wanted to make it clear that it is still not clear in which format the format will appear New installment of ‘The Witcher’. It is simply an exhibition of everything that the game can offer in terms of characters animations, fauna, mapping, reactions. A wonder that as we already knew, will star in an old acquaintance of the saga: Ciri.
Mea guilt. This presentation also serves for CD Projakt Red to reassure players: The fiasco of ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ In consoles, they say (without hesitation, qualify as “disaster”), it will not be repeated. That is why they do not have a date for this ‘The Witcher 4’: the time that is necessary to become a “new reference” of games of this type will be in development. In times of ‘GTA VI‘It is not a bad purpose, but the truth is that the seen seems to be up to the circumstances: the magnitude of the scenarios, the naturalness of the movements, the realism of the gestures, the apparent diversity of possible reactions of the characters … is simply overwhelming.
Three beasts. Currently, we have three graphic beasts outings of the mainstream With greater technical and monetary muscle of the industry: this ‘The Witcher 4’, which, like everything about CD Project Red, is at the visual avant -garde of the medium; ‘Gears of War E-Day‘, which we will possibly see gameplay Soon, and that in exhibitions like this kinematics made with the game engine we can expect a return in style of the saga; And, of course, ‘gta vi’, what has not yet shown gameplaybut that has taught incredibly realistic cinematics made with the game engine.
Only the elders. That is, games of three industry giants (CD Projakt, Microsoft and Rockstar), whose launch we can set, in the best case, in the medium term: perhaps we do not have them to have them in our hands until entering 2026. And that is a problem: the games that technically push the industry, on the one hand come from the mastodons of the sector. Companies accustomed to operating with a franchise coup (such as these titles) and to ensure the shooting with revolutionary games in the visual … and only in that.
The damn hype. And we return to the usual problem: the games are very expensive to produce (With its 100 million estimated budget, in fact, ‘GTA VI’ is going to be the most expensive in history, with 2,000 million), so the producers do not risk, and from the side of the players we complain that we are not going anywhere, and it is the fish that bite the tail. Those who have the waist to move in unpublished directions to the industry can not allow it, even if they have technological monsters such as Unreal Engine 5. And so we are looking at a distant future. So far away, that CD Projekt Red cannot even reveal what platforms ‘The Witcher 4’ is going to come out.
Video games have always been held on promises, and we treasure enough bad experiences on the matter (yes, CD Projekt Red, we have already forgiven you, but the ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ bugs do not forget as well as so) as to distrust the “will arrive when it is.” ‘The Witcher 4’ looks like a heart attack, but paradoxically, we are tired of having to wait sitting.
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