Cyberpunk 2077 Has Sold 18 Million Copies, The Witcher 3 Up to 40 Million
Cyberpunk 2077 has sold more than 18 million copies while The Witcher 3 has now surpassed more than 40 million and 65 million as a franchise overall.
CD Projekt Red's latest financial earnings report revealed the latest figures for the studio's two cornerstone franchises. The developer also confirmed these numbers were for copies of the games sold through to customers and not just to retailers.
Cyberpunk suffered a pretty catastrophic launch as console versions of the game were riddled with bugs, but CD Projekt Red has slowly built the game to a better standard and it finally launched the next-gen versions in February.
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The financial report also revealed that CD Projekt Red plans to continue supporting the game throughout 2022 and earlier this week quest director Paweł Sasko said that Cyberpunk was far from finished.
"We are all aware there is work to be done," he said, and this general support comes alongside the development of a full DLC expansion for the game that's been promised since before launch.
The Witcher, on the other hand, launched CD Projekt Red into mainstream success when it was released in 2015 and became IGN's Game of the Year.
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It may have seen an influx of sales recently as the developer announced that a new Witcher game is on the way. Fans have since speculated what the single teaser image could mean, but otherwise CD Projekt Red has said very little, other than the game is being built in Unreal Engine 5.
Another injection of sales will likely arrive when the next-gen version of The Witcher 3 finally launches, but CD Projekt Red just announced that this had been delayed again.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet
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