There are at present 627 builders working at CD Projekt Crimson, and because the studio revealed throughout its monetary yr 2023 earnings convention, 403 of them are actually devoted to work on Undertaking Polaris, which is to say, The Witcher 4. (Thanks, RPS.) In the meantime, the skeleton crew left to work on Cyberpunk 2077 updates has shrunk to 17, whereas its sequel, codenamed Undertaking Orion, has a group of 47 and is presumably nonetheless within the early levels.
Answering shareholder questions after the convention, joint CEO of CD Projekt Crimson Michał Nowakowski patiently defined that, no, he wouldn’t be capable to reveal the discharge date of the subsequent Witcher sport in a convention name. “Revealing the discharge date is mainly a part of the advertising plan and that is not one thing we’re keen to do right here,” he mentioned.
Nowakowski did, nonetheless, discuss concerning the dangers CD Projekt Crimson was taking by innovating in sure areas of the upcoming sport. “Making [a] new sport is all the time a artistic threat,” he mentioned, “particularly since we’re attempting to push new boundaries and discover new fields, do one thing we’ve not truly executed earlier than.” Although he known as it “a reasonably broad paintbrush stroke” he did try to clarify what that meant. “Mainly, I suppose what I am saying is you shouldn’t be anticipating only a Witcher 3 in new clothes. I imply, in fact we’re constructing on the shoulders of what was executed earlier than and on the learnings of what was executed earlier than, however we will likely be including new issues, new components, new gameplay components, new mechanics that you haven’t seen in our earlier video games thus far.”
The subsequent Witcher sport is at present in its pre-production section, however CD Projekt Crimson is planning to enter full manufacturing within the second half of 2024.
