After a Witcher-free decade, CDPR still promises three sequels in six years

CDPR previously committed to a schedule of “three Witcher games in six years.” in 2022When The Witcher 4 was in pre-production and was known only as “Project Polaris”. CDPR said at the time that “over 150 people” were involved in the game's development, a number that has since grown to 447 active developers. CDPR's Latest Earnings Report.

This summer we got our first public glimpse of the work of these developers via impressive The Witcher 4 technical demonstration shown running on PS5 during the Epic State of Unreal presentation. But that tech presentation was labeled as “not real gameplay,” even when sections were supposedly supervised live by one of CDPR's developers.

All this runs on a completely new engine underlying The Witcher 4 could make it easier for CDPR to release further sequels on an accelerated schedule. However, having released three full-size witcher games in six years is a pretty ambitious promise, especially considering the roughly eight-year gap between the 2007 game's release. The Witcher and 2015 release The Witcher 3.

Please also keep in mind that CDPR is also working on a sequel at the same time. Cyberpunk 2077which has grown to a development team of 135 people, and by 2027, CDPR projects will increase the number of developers to more than 300. The studio is also hard at work on multiplayer spin-off of The Witcher from Project Sirius. A “modern rethinking” of the first The Witcher game (which has also been in development for almost four years), and still mysterious Project Hadar to top it all off. This is too much for a still growing company that when the company had only 250 employees The Witcher 3 launched.

It is also worth noting that, even with the rapid development schedule, the technologies developed today for The Witcher 4 significant upgrades may be required to accommodate the new console and GPU hardware that will become standard by then. The Witcher 6 eventually it starts. Epic Announces Unreal Engine 6 Preview maybe in just two or three yearsWe really hope that CD Projekt Red implements its ambitious development plans in the future.