What are you guys whining about? Gothic has always been extreme in terms of requirements. No Gothic game has ever played smoothly on mid-range computers. Either you need a high end one, or you need to wait a few years before maxing out all the settings. This is how it's always been, it has nothing to do with the developer.
Example: Trying to run the original Gothic with 300% view was hopeless back in the days unless you had a great computer.
I suspect it has to do with world design, and not actually the graphics. So much is constantly happening in the world, and so much of the world is always loaded, it's hard for computers low on RAM/CPU to deal with it all.
The console version will no doubt use the lower settings, not the higher ones you can enable on a high end PC.
Example: Trying to run the original Gothic with 300% view was hopeless back in the days unless you had a great computer.
I suspect it has to do with world design, and not actually the graphics. So much is constantly happening in the world, and so much of the world is always loaded, it's hard for computers low on RAM/CPU to deal with it all.
The console version will no doubt use the lower settings, not the higher ones you can enable on a high end PC.