As CDPR unveils six projects, is revealing your entire hand the new norm for devs?
This week, CD Projekt Red held an investors call during which six new projects were unveiled. The Witcher 4, now otherwise known as The Witcher Polaris, will be the first in a trilogy. The Witcher Sirius is a new offshoot being worked on by third-party studio, The Molasses Flood. The Witcher Canis Majoris is another external effort, this one being developed by ex-Witcher folks. Cyberpunk 2077 Orion is a fully-fledged sequel to the once-maligned open-world action-roleplayer of 2020. And, slipped in right at the end of the call, Project Hadar is an entirely new game "distinct from The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077", that's currently in its "conceptual phase". All of this is on top of news about the incoming PS5 and Xbox Series X iterations of The Witcher 3, and the fact Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty is now in its final stages of production. And breathe.
The show was so jam-packed with announcements, it almost belied its meager 20-minute run-time, whipping newsrooms all over the world into a frenzy and whetting the palates of would-be players far and wide. "How very Marvel of them," was a sentiment shared in the GamesRadar+ office after seeing CD Projekt Red lay its full hand flat on the table – The Witcher trilogy portion of which aims to be concluded within six years of The Witcher 4 being released. Whether that's achievable or not remains to be seen (fans are already voicing concerns), but one thing seems clearer: there appears to be a broader show-all trend emerging from game developers, seemingly keen to roadmap several years of plans and projects in one fell swoop.
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