The Witcher 4 Could Enter Production This Year
The Witcher 4 could enter full production this year, according to CD Projekt Red. Company CEO Adam Badowski says that the team aims to get 400 devs working on the game by the middle of 2024, suggesting that the long-awaited sequel will become one of the studio's main focuses now that the ongoing development of Cyberpunk 2077 is winding down.
Speaking with Reuters, Badowski couldn't give us an idea of when The Witcher 4, codenamed Polaris, will launch. However, he added that the team has learned a lot from Cyberpunk 2077's infamous development cycle, hopefully avoiding another disastrous launch.
In the interview, Badowski explains that getting the next Witcher game into the production phase isn't a guarantee, but an aspiration. "We'd like to have around 400 people working on the project by the middle of the year."
On its website, CD Projekt Red says it has over 1,000 employees, so that's an impressive number of developers to put on one game. This is especially true when you consider that the studio has other games in the works as well, particularly its Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, codenamed Orion.
CD Projekt Red has been eager to stress that The Witcher 4 won't be a repeat of Cyberpunk 2077. As part of this, the team has promised to not release awful console ports again.
While Badowski doesn't have many details to give away just yet, we can assume that The Witcher 4 - or whatever it ends up being called - will be CDPR's priority going forward. This would mean that Cyberpunk fans are in for a bit of a wait, but given that we've been waiting since 2015 for another Witcher game, that's more than fair.
In the time that The Witcher 3 launched, we've also had Cyberpunk 2077 and its various updates and expansions. On top of that, both The Witcher and Cyberpunk have received Netflix adaptations, with The Witcher's live-action series spawning three seasons and two spin-offs so far. It's fair to say that fans are ready for a new game at this point.
With such a long wait in between
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