Poland-based CD Projekt RED confirmed Tuesday that its million-selling RPG series The Witcher is headed to home consoles in fall 2009.

The console game is dubbed The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf, and will appear on Xbox 360 and PS3, marking CD Projekt RED's first foray into new generation console development. Atari will publish the title.

According to CD Projekt, Rise of the White Wolf will be built "from the ground up" as a console RPG, sporting a new game engine co-developed with Lyon-based Widescreen Games.

“The only thing we’re taking directly from The Witcher is the story; everything else is being created from scratch or significantly reworked to get us to our end goal of delivering the ultimate console RPG," said CD Projekt RED CEO Adam Kicinski. He added that console gamers want "deep, story-driven games."

Seemingly taking a pre-emptive stance against worries that the PC-native RPG series would be "dumbed down" for console masses, co-founder Michal Kicinski stated, “We’re not about to dumb down our games for anyone.

"We want to give players the best games, regardless of platform; it’s important to us that each game plays to the platform’s strengths while treating our players with respect. That was our development philosophy with The Witcher, it’s our philosophy with Rise of the White Wolf, and it’s our philosophy on the other two games in development at CD Projekt RED.

"Anyone concerned that we’re going to somehow offer a shallow RPG simply because we’re working on consoles can stop worrying.”

The Witcher franchise, based on the literary works of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, debuted on PC in 2007, and recently hit the 1 million worldwide sales mark. The title, CD Projekt's development debut, was lauded by critics.

For more about Atari's publishing plans, see Phil Harrison's Edge keynote.