Tw3 is fully designed, from bottom to top, for consoles. Graphics are designed to be seen on a large TV set, not a PC monitor (comparatively to DAI, the large PC movements make that worse), it is meant to be played with controllers etc
The thing that might be designed for PCs: gameplay.
Streaming is not about playing video games, it is about making a show of playing video games. Sometimes, this exposes the quality of a product in a crude way.
When a streamer , staring right into his cam, bellows he enjoys nothing more than games requesting all of his attention, when a streamer announces, anime style, that he will conquer the enemy using the mighty one finger technique, sure, they have their comical effect, they also expose the weakness of the gameplay.
Now and then, streamers exhibit a product for what it is and it does not serve TW3 in this case as the gameplay is weak.
Weakness that could be sourced into selling the product to the low entry of PC players, who are short in skills.
At the moment, and up to 30 hours into it, TW3 is for poseurs, packed with cool looking abilities deprived of any meaning than making the player look cool.
Congratulations to one comment made on this site reading that the Witcher's author could be felt betrayed as he never imagined his witcher as a jedi knight, spot on with the TW3. I watched a streamer who excell at giving that jedi feel.
More likely,though, CDR projekt failed into dealing with fights in open space, on the scale of an open world. That gives the product as it is, when pressing one button is all it takes to prevail.
@Roq: If that is so then why does Microsoft (who effectively "own" the Windows PC gaming platform) make an exclusive deal with Square Enix for the next Tomb Raider for time limited exclusivity of the game on Xbone?
Let me state that again very clearly: The platform holder of Windows PC has made an exclusive deal with a third party to actively withhold a game from their very own PC customers.
What about Sony? Usually, when a console platform signs an exclusivity contract, that's to shut down the other console platform, not PCs.
By the way, Microsoft sells OSs for PCs. They sell Xboxs. It is unlikely for people not to buy a microsoft OS because a game is made exclusive to XBoxs.
But who knows? It is all subjecitve after all.
This game is a system seller.
At the moment, hardly. This would be a nice addition to a console game library for people who own already a console, buying a console to play that product, pretty unsure.
Better to stick to PC play on a lower end rig.
TW3 is also fully thought for consoles, even no graphic downgrade could hide that fact. That means that people would have to get a very expensive rig to play that in console conditions.
Too thin a segment of a market here to justify uber graphics.
