Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Has Been In Development Since 2021
CD Projekt Red, makers of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, recently released its 2022 full-year financial report. There was lots to see, like how Cyberpunk 2077 sold more last year than in 2021 thanks to the Edgerunners update, and how CDPR spends its time and resources on its various confirmed projects.
The biggest project on CDPR's plate is Phantom Liberty, the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 DLC. Head on over to page eight of CDPR's report and you'll see the studio's allocation of resources, which goes back as far as December 2021. Since we see a big blue bar taking up basically half the scale, we know CD Projekt Red has tasked half of its total developers with creating Phantom Liberty since at least 2021.
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That makes sense when you think about it. Normally, studios would start working on expansion and DLC even before the release of the original game, but Cyberpunk 2077's mildly troubled launch meant that CDPR had to spend a lot of time and resources fixing it before they could really move onto post-launch content. December 2021 sounds about when Cyberpunk 2077 became playable, so those developers probably moved from fixing a broken game to adding all-new content that will be packaged and released later this year.
We still don't know when Phantom Liberty will arrive, but we at least know when we'll know more. CDPR said yesterday that we'll get more news on Phantom Liberty in June, so we're looking at a release sometime in the second half of 2023.
Elsewhere in the same financial report, we see CDPR took an "impairment charge" for Project Sirius, the multiplayer Witcher game currently in development from The Molasses Flood, which CDPR purchased back in 2021.
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