CD Projekt Red Says The Witcher 3 Next-Gen Is Not in Development Hell Despite Delay
This week has not been a particularly good one for fans of CD Projekt Red. While there were rumors floating around that gamers could see the Cyberpunk 2077 DLC later this year, the developer recently stated that any major content coming to the sci-fi RPG will arrive in 2023. Alongside a long wait for the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion, fans were given the unfortunate news that The Witcher 3's next-gen ports were being delayed until further notice.
It was announced earlier in the week that CD Projekt Red would be taking over the development of the next gen versions of The Witcher 3. Previously, the game was being developed by Saber Interactive, which handled the Switch port of The Witcher 3 and the 4K graphics update. After the game's most recent delay, CD Projekt Red has made a statement hoping to calm those who believe they may never get their hands on The Witcher 3's next-gen upgrades. Specifically, the developer's Senior Vice President of Business Development Michal Nowakowski wanted to make it clear that the game is not in «development hell.»
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«I want to state this is not the fact,» Nowakowski said in relation to some headlines insinuating that the game was in a poor development state. As well as claiming the games weren't in development hell, Nowakowski also implied that the game wasn't far from completion. «There's been a lot of insinuations that we're going to launch, like, June next year or something like that. That's completely not the case,» he said later in an investors call. While this could be read as Nowakowski denying that the game will be releasing even as close as June next year, another statement fromCD Projekt Red's joint CEO Adam Kicinski
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