Game news “400 people in six months”: production of The Witcher 4 starts this year!
Little by little, the witcher is making his nest: CD Projekt has confirmed that the production of the next video game The Witcher will take on a completely different scale very soon. Yes, there is something to be excited about
Higher, bigger
CD Projekt can congratulate itself on being one of the most influential studios of its generation and, to tell the truth, it does not deserve its reputation: between three more than formidable The Witchers, a finally splendid Cyberpunk 2077 (even if it is not was not won) and a game sales platform, GOG, very interesting, the Polish firm is on many fronts. And suffice to say that its future looks extremely busy, with already the confirmation of many projects just for The Witcher saga. A little reminder of the facts.
So first of all, we have The Witcher Polaris, which the public keeps calling The Witcher 4 by default, waiting for more. This large-scale title is the next on CD Projekt’s list and will be based around Unreal Engine 5: it will be the first part of a brand new trilogy, a new arc in which Geral of Rivia will not a priori be no longer the hero.
There is also the remake of the very first The Witcher, a large-scale project which is supervised by CD Projekt, but indeed developed by an external studio, Fool’s Theory, made up of former CD Projekt employees. Unreal Engine 5 is also the chosen engine.
Finally, we also have The Witcher Sirius, code name for a game still designed by the studio The Molasses Flood. This is a title with both a large single-player mode and a large multiplayer component, still taking on the features of an action-RPG.
Finally, on the Cyberpunk 2077 side, note that a sequel is also planned internally at CD Projekt, bearing the provisional name “Orion”. In short, developers have their work cut out for them, as they say.
This year is the right one
Adam Badowski
After spending several years repairing and refining Cyberpunk 2077 in addition to its Phantom Liberty expansion, CD Projet can finally focus on the sequel. And the sequel is therefore called The Witcher Polaris, the code name of the next title in a new trilogy. The head of the firm, Adam Badowski, recently spoke to Reuters and his goal is “to have around 400 people working on the project by the middle of the year”.
In other words, The Witcher 4 (which should not actually be called that) will enter production over the next six months: for the moment, no release window has been mentioned, but some are counting on an arrival of the game in 2026 or 2027. In short, (really) be patient.
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