Why did CD Projekt just announce 6 new games?

polygon.com:

In a long-term strategy update Tuesday, CD Projekt laid out an extremely ambitious development plan, stretching far into the future, and including confirmation of no less than six new games in addition to the new Witcher game it had already discussed: two further Witcher sequels, two Witcher spinoffs, and a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, plus the creation of an entirely original third series, currently in the early conceptual stages.

CD Projekt wisely put no firm timeline on any of this, but from what the studio said, it is possible to put the projects in a rough release order, and to explain where the resources to make them will come from.

In the near future, CD Projekt Red — the company’s main studio, comprising three development hubs in Poland — remains focused on finishing a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X version of The Witcher3, due this year, and the Phantom Liberty expansion toCyberpunk 2077, due in 2023.

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After that, the next three games in the development pipeline all belong to the Witcher franchise, and two are in pre-production. The first is “Sirius”, the codename for a single- and multiplayer game made by Boston studio The Molasses Flood, which CD Projekt acquired last year, and which made co-op survival game Drake Hollow. Also in pre-production is “Polaris”, the first game in the new Witcher saga, made by the core CD Projekt Red team. Next up is most likely “Canis Majoris”, a “full-fledged” Witcher game, but separate from the new saga and made by an external studio.

Beyond this trio, CD Projekt Red expects to follow “Polaris” with two sequels in the space of just six years. Meanwhile, “Orion,” the next game in the Cyberpunk universe, will be made by a new CD Projekt Red studio in Boston as well as CD