The Witcher 3 next-gen upgrade is not in 'development hell,' CD Projekt insists
To the no-doubt disappointment of Geralt enjoyers, CD Projekt announced yesterday that the planned next-gen upgrade for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which was first announced back in 2020, has been delayed again. The news did not come with a replacement launch window, but said only that the upgrade had been delayed "until further notice."
That terminology was a little worrying in the eyes of some, including me: «Until further notice» sounds a lot like «delayed indefinitely,» which is often a sort of code phrase for games that are in serious trouble. Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2, for instance, was delayed indefinitely in early 2021, a move that also saw pre-sales halted and the developer taken off the project. Aside from vague assurances that work is continuing, it hasn't been heard from since.
In an investors call today, however, CD Projekt's senior vice president of business development Michał Nowakowski made a point of saying that is not the case with the long-awaited Witcher 3 upgrade.
«I've been looking at the headlines that popped up here and there over the internet, and I've seen one that really drew my attention, which is, 'Witcher 3 next-gen delayed indefinitely,' which sounds like the game is in some sort of development hell,» Nowakowski said. «I want to state this is not the fact. 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.
»Everything we're saying is—we have taken the development of the game in-house. The game is going to be finished in-house. We're evaluating our time, that requires a bit of investigation—that's all we're saying. Nobody's saying the game is delayed [with] some monumental time gap ahead of
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