These are very modest requirements.

Perhaps I should put it another way: are all processors below the i series now incapable of running the game.

The reason I ask is that last time i checked and from a historical viewpoint on my part, most AAA games did not tax hardware to this level in the slightest.

I would be glad to be proved wrong but I won't be upgrading just yet;)

I only have one laptop and even though it can handle The Witcher, I can't play the 2nd one... Not even gonna try with the 3rd one xD

Fuck me, those are some serious requirements. Might be able to run it with my current rig, but I guess I'll just have to see once I get it and then decide whether any upgrades are in order.

Might as well put in for a refund! lol

My system

Phenom II x4 965 BE
GTX 750 ti
8GB ram
win 7

Saying that I got the witcher 2 to run on this system using ati hd 3000 onboard gfx [yes the frame rate wasn't that good] by messing about with the config file [lots of varibles to tinker about with in it, that are not availble via GUI config]

I don't play games on ultra, if I have to play this on low, I'll be happy, storyline is more important to me than fancy graphics. [sorry art department]

all the best

I think you may be able to play the game as you mentioned that low settings are not an issue. There is not a huge gap in performance between GTX 750 Ti and GTX 660 (minimum recommended). But then again we won't know for sure until the games is out and performance benchmarks are released.

Core2 Quad Q9650 is slightly more powerful than a Phenom II X4 940, so that part should be okay (the CPU requirements listed are a bit weird - the Core i5 2500K is significantly more powerful than a Phenom II X4 940 at stock clocks).

The HD 5870 is a fair bit less powerful than either of the GPUs listed as minimum spec. It should run the game, but performance could be an issue even with reduced settings.
If you have the 1GB version of the HD 5870, the game might stutter or have some graphical problems (basing this on both the minimum GPUs having 2GB VRAM by default) - might be possible to avoid that by lowering resolution and/or texture quality.

I guess it all depends on whether the minimum requirements are the actual minimum specs to run the game reasonably at low settings, or whether they're the minimum needed to get similar performance at the quality settings used by the PS4 or Xbox One.

+1
That should hold up at 1080p and would be much better at 990p or 768p. As long as its a 64-bit OS.
Al depends on the resolution. I think 768p would run it considering there are surprisingly little performance differences considering price and time of release:http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/511?vs=660

Enjoy your 720p 20fps shit.

Almost completely off-topic:
As an esteemer of "Good Old Games", I don't really mind playing in lower resolutions (though higher is alway better, of course), yet the low framerate is a big issue for me.
I really can't force myself to play something under 60FPS, it just feels terribly choppy and the stuttering quickly gets on my nerves (with all due exceptions, like older games -Desperados or the Infinity Engine Games, for example- where this is not very noticeable), sometimes even being physically nauseating. This might be only me, though; I have always been extremely sensitive to this, and I can almost recognize the number of frames with the naked-eye (hyperbole, but not far from the truth).

So, basically, I'd say: if you surpass the minimum requirements, even if not by much, I would recommend to get it on PC. PC mater race crap aside, consoles will necessarily have lower resolutions, terrible framerate (all right, that is based on my perception of the average 30, yet as a former X360 owner I can state that in many games there have been many dives under that limit) and much worse textures, so I think that it would be hard to have a worse product on your computer than on a console. Just think about the comparison between TW2 on PC and Xbox 360: imo, even on the lowest settings, the PC won hands down.
Of course, when in doubt it would be better to wait until release and see how it actually runs on other people's machines before deciding.

My new PC (when it arrives) should be able to run it flawlessly. Now, all I need is the reflexes of a 15 year old to properly play the game 8(.

Well, I will not be playing this on the PC it seems. But I do want to impor my save - has there been any word on cross-platform importing since that one time when they said they were "looking into it"?

OK, I won't reach the "recommended" specs but with a new video card I can end up somewhere between "minimum" and "recommended". That's good enough for me.

My computer does not meet the minimum requirements, but it is fairly powerful for a laptop and I am used to playing games below minimum requirements from gaming on my previous laptops, so I am not especially worried. I am pretty confident the game will run and I will crank down the settings (no anti-aliasing, etc.) to make it run at acceptable frame rates and a reasonable resolution.