does anyone know if the witcher 2 is coming to ps4 or xbone. I ask this because right now I have finished the first game but I don't have a pc good enough to play the witcher 2 so my only other choice would be to get a 360 or build a pc. At first I was thinking of just getting the xbox 360 because its cheaper but then I relized that if I were to get a xbox 360 after that I would need to buy a ps4 or xbox one which after I bought all the consoles that would cost up to $600 so now the question is what type of pc should I get in order to be able to run the witcher 2 and 3 I have a $600 budget

SInce WItcher 3 will be coming to PS4/XbOne i doubt Witcher 2 will be retrofitted to be into the new consoles - at least not in the short term
As for PC... get the best cpu/graphic card combo you can fit into budget

Im actually wondering if he is going the upgrade route or a brand new one?. Brand new one (everything included) would cost more than 600 ?

I actually want to build a new one. Also I have bean watching Austin Evans on Youtube. He just came out with a new $500 build. Would this build be able to play the witcher 2.

Also I would like to build the pc now than maybe 6 months from now I will upgrade it to play newer games

quite more if you want good parts.
Its hard for me checking the US deals, but lets see what i found for Germany:
a pc in the $650 range:
CPU: AMD FX 6300 boxed €100
cooler: Alpenföhn Sella €15
Mainboard: MSI 970A-G43 €65
Memory: 4GB Kingston HyperX-Blu €45
Graphic: MSI Radeon HD 7870 OC 2 GB €155
Sound: onboard
HDD: Seagate Barracude 7200 14 1 TB €55
DVD: LG GH25-NS € 20
Frame: Sharkoon REX3 Value Edition €50
Power: beQuiet Power 7 450W €50


As you can see, this is not the best system.
But lets say you buy only a few parts every other month....
Its real hard to say buy that....
My pc i build myself for under € 300....2 years ago.
I can play The Witcher 2....but not any of the modern games.

I can only repeat, with that small budget its near impossible to run next gen titles without major limitations.
(a nice Geforce GTX 680 alone comes around $450....and we are not even talking about high end CPUs.)

2nd part of my answer:

now some mags compared the XOne with PC
this is their soloution:

CPU: AMD FX-8320, 8 x 3,5 GHz (boxed) - (130 Euro)
COOLER: Boxed-Kühler - (0 Euro)
RAM: G.Skill DIMM Kit 8 GB DDR3-1.333 - (62 Euro)
GPU: PowerColor Radeon HD 7950 PCS+ - (186 Euro)
Mainboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 - (64 Euro)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14, 1 TB - (50 Euro)
DVD-Burner: LG GH25-NS - (25 Euro)
Powerl: Be Quiet! System Power 7 450 Watt - (49 Euro)
Frame: Cooler Master N300 or 3R Systems R490 - (30 Euro)
OS: Windows 8.1 64 Bit (85 Euro) (optional)

So without the the system we have €596 = $786
this is a system that should work fine for the coming games.


If you can't wait than this:
CPU: AMD FX-6300 (Boxed) - (95 Euro)
COOLER: Boxed-Kühler - (0 Euro)
RAM: G.Skill DIMM Kit 4 GB DDR3-1.333 (F3-10600CL9D-4GBNT) - (25 Euro)
GPU: HIS Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition iCooler - (80 Euro)
Mainboard: ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0 - (58 Euro)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14, 1 TB - (50 Euro)
DVD-(Burner): LG GH25-NS - (25 Euro)
Powerl: Be Quiet! System Power 7 mit 350 Watt - (38 Euro)
Frame: Cooler Master N300 oder 3R Systems R490 - (30 Euro)
OS: Windows 8.1 64 Bit (85 Euro)

Now with OS we have €486 = $ 641


Now they tested both systems with AC 3, Anno 2070, Battlefield 3, Max Payne 3, Metro 2033
and Project Cars with high details 1980 x 1080....

the 8320 systems runs at 56 fps
the 6300 systems runs at 25 fps


That means if you want the power of the XOne or worse the PS4 than you must buy better equipment
or reduce the quality of the games.

Quick note, PS4 and XBone are current gen consoles.

That wouldn't be a bad idea, making upgraded/less throttled remakes to sell once more (package both together). I wonder how profitable that is though and the risks?

Console gaming is so "in the now" I don't think it makes sense to many companies to port games forward like that. Which is a shame because if I was more of a console gamer I would want them to.

I was mainly wondering if I could run W3 on a 500-600 from low to medium settings

For a time, the first The Witcher was going to be ported to consoles (Xbox 360 and maybe PS3) with some enhanced features (better graphics, gamepad support, better combat...), but it was finally canceled and only the second game appeared on consoles after a long wait. Now that The Witcher 3 is in development, the probability for The Witcher 2 released again on consoles, now for the next-gen consoles is almost zero...

Since that setup apparently runs Crysis 3 nicely on 1920x1080 with high settings, I would guess that The Witcher 2 runs great on it. Maybe übersampling could possibly still make The Witcher 2 jerky, but just don't use it then. It looks great even without.