Video: Watch The Witcher 3 running on Nintendo Switch
Plus CDPR discusses port in new interview
More than five minutes of exclusive The Witcher 3 Nintendo Switch gameplay has been published on VGC’s YouTube channel, showing the port in action.
In a newly published Witcher 3 Switch interview, Piotr Chrzanowski, a senior producer at CD Projekt Red, confirmed that the entire game and expansions is set to be contained on the Switch game card.
Announced during the E3 2019 Nintendo Direct, The Witcher 3 Nintendo Switch port is being developed by Saber Interactive “in close cooperation” with CD Projekt Red and will release on October 15.
The RPG was first released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC in 2015, so it was a surprise to some that the game was able to be ported to Nintendo’s comparatively less powerful console.
Explaining how the game was ported to Switch, Chrzanowski told VGC:
“We made a lot of changes. We had to optimise the game for both the GPU, the CPU, the memory constraints… there was a lot to deal with. A lot of the changes we made are under the hood, because they’re things we had to adjust to the limitations of the hardware.”
