The Game Awards ceremony was very successful with several announcements of very big games. If we were able to see the first images of the new project from Naughty Dog or even from Fumito Ueda's studio, a certain The Witcher 4 took everyone by surprise with a sumptuous trailer. A mention at the start of the video also caught our attention, and suggests that it could perhaps even be the very first images of a game dedicated to new generation consoles.
A cutscene that tears the retina
CD Projekt amazed players with the trailer for The Witcher 4, particularly with the beauty of the visual effects and the on-screen graphics. Of course, these were not gameplay images, but a pre-rendered cutscene via the Unreal Engine 5, produced in collaboration with Platige Image, a Polish company specializing in the production of short films and other video content. for video games, cinema and even advertising.
Platige Image is a leading Polish studio producing stunning, storytelling-driven visual content for cinema, gaming, advertising and live events.
A mention at the beginning of the video also clarified that the cutscene was pre-rendered on an unannounced Nvidia RTX graphics card, which sparked several reactions in the video game sphere, and suggests at first glance that this very beautiful trailer was running on an RTX 5090, NVIDIA's next high-end GPU.
The first images of a next-gen game?
If NVIDIA's RTX 5000 series is the one that first comes to mind when seeing the mention at the start of the trailer. Everything still suggests that this new The Witcher will be much more demanding than what the next graphics cards will be able to offer.
Presenting the segment dedicated to the trailer for The Witcher 4, Goeff Keighley indicates that he went to meet the studios to find out if they could share a glimpse with players of what awaits them for “the next decade of gaming” .
For our 10th anniversary, I traveled the world asking developers what they could share with fans to give them a preview of not only what's coming in 2025, because we have a lot of that, but also what's coming in 2025. looks forward to the next decade of gaming.
We are now at the dawn of 2025, and the release of The Witcher 4 is still very far away. Now that the announcement is made, the big question is when will The Witcher 4 be released?
A few weeks ago, Michał Nowakowski, the studio's deputy general director, said that for the announcement of a new game, CD Projekt would create a marketing campaign longer than the six months that were dedicated to Phantom Liberty.
For a new game, we would expect a slightly longer campaign, but not two years.
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That said, I want to emphasize that this doesn't mean we won't tease or reveal interesting things before [la révélation complète]. The marketing campaign, which slightly precedes the game's launch, is different from the actual “mass attack”. The mass attack is when you announce the date, you start collecting pre-orders and it's really a race between then and when you launch the game.
If we stick to his words, it is difficult to know if the studio describes the trailer released yesterday as a “full reveal”. However, this was indeed the first video teaser for The Witcher 4, and for comparison, the first video teaser for Cyberpunk 2077 was revealed in 2012 for the game to be released in 2020, an eight-year gap between the announcement and release.
In the case of The Witcher 3, the first teaser was revealed in 2013, but for the game to be released in 2015. It was therefore a more condensed marketing campaign, but which was still planned two years after the release. reveal of the game.
While we are already talking about new generation consoles for 2027, everything suggests that The Witcher 4 will not see the light of day on this generation of console, but rather on the next. No platform has been confirmed, and it is possible that the RTX 5000 will also be outdated when the game is released.
