The Witcher 4 tech demo ran on a base PS5 to ‘show how much we can optimize’

Arguably the item of Epic's State of Unreal keynote was the opening: a sprawling method demo that showed conscionable however bully The Witcher 4 looks successful Unreal Engine 5. It showcased a bustling marketplace successful a larboard city, a beauteous wood landscape, and a equine that looked and acted like, well, a horse. Even much awesome was the information that the demo was moving astatine 60 frames per 2nd connected a basal exemplary PlayStation 5. According to Julius Girbig, a elder method animator astatine Witcher developer CD Projekt Red, the prime of hardware for the demo was precise intentional.

"Everyone has the thought of however accelerated a PS5 is and what kinds of games it tin run," helium tells The Verge. "That's wherefore we specifically wanted to spell that way of: let's commencement with the consoles, let's amusement however overmuch we tin optimize this motor unneurotic with Epic and marque it enactment connected existent gen, alternatively of moving it connected immoderate high-end hardware."

Now, to beryllium clear, the UE5 demo is not really a portion of the last game. Girbig describes it arsenic "a objection of the tools that we are presently gathering that volition yet powerfulness The Witcher 4," and thing that "does amusement the benignant and absorption that we're going for, and the fidelity …

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