There Could Be A Good Reason It's Not Called The Witcher 4
The Witcher 4 has just been announced, and gamers everywhere can rejoice. Of course, CD Projekt Red isn’t calling it The Witcher 4 yet, but none of us are going to call it A New Saga In The Witcher Story Made In Partnership With Epic But Not Exclusive To The Epic Games Store. We might settle for The Next Witcher, but everyone is going to refer to it in passing as The Witcher 4. But then, is it The Witcher 4? It feels odd that CDPR has avoided number denotation, especially given that both sequels so far have been known as 2 and 3, albeit with subtitles to them. There are three reasons I can think of for why it’s not just called The Witcher 4, so let’s take a look at them all here.
The first one is just to keep it a mystery - this is the one everyone is pushing as most likely (hence why they’re all calling it The Witcher 4 anyway), but I think there’s more to it than just the mystique. That doesn’t seem like CDPR’s style. It has always been a highly communicative company, sometimes to a fault as the Cyberpunk 2077 hype campaign showed, but this is a bit of a nothingburger announcement. It confirms the game is being worked on, which we all knew, and tells us that it’s on Unreal 5 rather than REDengine, something that’s a major own goal for CDPR and something only those with an acute interest in the industry care about. This could have gotten major buzz had it been revealed in a showcase or event, yet it’s a wall of text quietly published to its own website and dispersed through social media. It doesn’t feel like CDPR’s style to just not tell us for the sake of it, so I suspect there is significantly more to it.
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