{"id":8146,"date":"2020-09-04T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/the-witcher-3-is-getting-a-next-gen-visual-upgrade-for-pc-ps5-xsx\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T20:26:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T20:26:02","slug":"the-witcher-3-is-getting-a-next-gen-visual-upgrade-for-pc-ps5-xsx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/the-witcher-3-is-getting-a-next-gen-visual-upgrade-for-pc-ps5-xsx\/","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 3 Is Getting a Next-Gen Visual Upgrade for PC, PS5, XSX"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Witcher 3 Is Getting a Next-Gen Visual Upgrade for PC, PS5, XSX<\/h2>\n

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As publishers announce their plans for next-generation consoles, we\u2019ve begun to find out what sort of upgrades and improvements we can look forward to. In some cases, those benefits are coming to PC gamers as well \u2014 CD Projeckt Red has announced a number of technical and visual improvements, including both ray tracing and faster loading times, across all previously released content.<\/p>\n

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The Witcher 3 is coming to the next generation!<\/p>\n

A visually and technically enhanced version of the game will be available for purchase for PC and next-gen consoles & as a free update for owners of the game on PC, @Xbox<\/a> One and @PlayStation<\/a> 4. <\/p>\n

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\u2014 The Witcher (@witchergame) September 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The next-generation version will release as a standalone purchase for PC\/XSX\/PS5, but if you already own the game, you\u2019ll get the update for free. It\u2019s not clear if owners of the base The Witcher get the upgrade as well or if you need to own The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, but anyone who has the latter will receive the updates. Customers have also had questions about what happens for folks who have physical copies, and whether the new material will be part of an automatic patch or download (presumably yes, since there\u2019s no reason for this not to be true).<\/p>\n

To be clear, the video below is not<\/em> a formal video from CD Projekt Red. It\u2019s an end-user created video intended to showcase what a ray-traced path in The Witcher 3 would look like. Looking over the video, it seems to be a fairly solid demo, and sometimes end-user mods can showcase how these effects will look before they are formally implemented. Minecraft\u2019s path tracing mod was wowing people before Nvidia released its own official RTX patches.<\/p>\n