CD Projekt RED Preparing Upcoming Games for Next Generation of Consoles

Eurogamer is sharing some comments made by CD Projekt RED managing director Adam Badowski and head of marketing Michal Platkow-Gilewski that not only indicate what the developer is doing to prepare their RED Engine for the next generation of consoles, but also confirm that their next two titles will be released simultaneously on PC and console platforms.  One can assume they’re referring to The Witcher 3 and an as-of-yet unannounced game:

“We are definitely starting for new consoles,” managing director Adam Badowski told us, when asked whether the pair of known-about “AAA+” games will be for this generation or the next.

“The market is ready for something new,” heralded head of marketing Michal Platkow-Gilewski, “for something faster, more powerful.”

Badowski added: “I can tell you we are and we were focusing on powerful gaming rigs. We’re going to do something amazing, so we need extra processors.

“It will be multi-platform game, so the multi-release at the same time. But if you are talking about leading platform, we will use most powerful, just because it can give us the freedom of creation.

“And it’s cool to develop something special, new – better than others on the market. It’s our goal.”

When does CD Projekt Red begin making an engine for the next generation of machines?

“We’ve already started,” Badowski revealed.

“We prepared a backlog for the new features quite a long time ago.”

“You probably know that we’ve decided to develop our new engine that is called Red Engine, so we’ve prepared a long-term plan for that engine. So we are yes, yes we are developing some features just for the new…”

Platkow-Gilewski interjected: “We are anticipating what the new generations of consoles may be.”

“Not only consoles,” Badowski butted in.

“What the platforms will be,” Platkow-Gilewski answered. “And what will happen in the PC market, because you know we have to create something better than we could achieve today. We have to see a little bit the future, like other developers I guess.”