Excitement forThe Witcherfranchise is at an all-time high, which may come as a surprise sinceThe Witcher 3is almost five years old. It just goes to show how popularThe WitcherNetflix TV show is. Given thatThe WitcherTV show is so popular,The Witcher 3has a record number of players, andThe Witcherbooks are selling out, one might think it’s a great time to capitalize on the brand. When asked, however, CD Projekt has restated that it has no newThe Witchergames in development.
CD Projekt Red recently hosted a conference call and Q&A tied to the studio’s recent delay ofCyberpunk 2077. During the Q&A CD Projekt Red was asked directly whether or not it was working on any other games. Senior VP of business development Michal Nowakowski confirmed it had one other AAA game in development in parallel withCyberpunk 2077, that being the previously announcedCyberpunk 2077multiplayer game.
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Nowakowski’s comments do leave room for smaller, non-AAA projects to currently be in development at CD Projekt Red. In this case, it’s possible that a smallerThe Witchergame might be in development. But as forThe Witcherfranchisethat fans are familiar with - the massive open-world action games - CD Projekt Red clearly has no room. A project the size ofThe Witcherwould require the fullCyberpunk 2077team to make, but it’s clearly busy.
A question worth asking is whetherCD Projekt Redmight be playing games with its response. The company just delayedCyberpunk 2077out of the current fiscal year and into the next, which is bound to have major financial repercussions. The studio is reportedly going into crunch, expecting overtime from developers that may last through the game’s launch in September. Even if CD Projekt Red was working on aWitchergame, it’s hard to imagine it ever acknowledging it right now.
Cyberpunk 2077is CD Projekt Red’s focus for the foreseeable future. That goes through its new September release date and beyond, as the studio works on itsCyberpunk 2077multiplayer game and whatever single-player post-launch content plans it may have. With that acknowledged, a newWitchergame is a near certainty sometime in the future. CD Projekt Red recently came to anew deal withThe Witcherauthor Andrzej Sapkowski, enabling them to create moreWitchergames. And beyond that, given the franchise’s newfound success, it’d be a hell of a missed opportunity to do otherwise.
The Witcher 3: Wild Huntis currently available on Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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