The Witcher 4 is finally underway as CD Projekt tease new Cyberpunk projects

CD Projekt has confirmed improvement is successful afloat plaything connected The Witcher 4, implicit 2 years aft it was primitively announced.

While we’ve known astir the beingness of The Witcher 4 for implicit 2 years, pursuing a logo uncover successful 2022, the adjacent instalment successful the bid is inactive shrouded successful mystery.

Technically, it’s inactive chartless if it volition beryllium called ‘The Witcher 4’, with developer CD Projekt referring to it by the codename Polaris. What we bash cognize is it volition beryllium the archetypal crippled successful a caller trilogy, and volition involve archetypal protagonist Geralt successful immoderate capableness – but not needfully arsenic the lead.

After antecedently stating afloat accumulation connected Polaris would footwear disconnected successful the 2nd fractional of 2024, CD Projekt has present officially confirmed the move.

In a statement alongside the studio’s Q3 2024 fiscal report, CD Projekt CEO Michal Nowakowski said: ‘I’m arrogant to corroborate that respective weeks agone the Polaris squad wrapped up preproduction and moved connected to full-scale accumulation – the astir intensive signifier of development.

‘We are precise pleased with our advancement connected this project, and I privation to convey the squad for its dedication.’

In a abstracted video, CD Projekt’s main fiscal officer, Piotr Nielubowicz, confirmed Polaris is ‘currently the astir acold along’ of each the projects astatine the workplace – though it’s inactive unclear erstwhile it volition really travel out.

This is simply a surprise, arsenic it was thought that the remake of the archetypal The Witcher game would beryllium the adjacent crippled to beryllium released. Although that’s being made by outer workplace Fool’s Theory, truthful it seems apt CD Projekt is not counting that and it’ll inactive beryllium retired first.

Along with Polaris, CD Projekt is moving connected a caller IP codenamed Project Hadar, a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 codenamed Project Orion, and a caller crippled acceptable successful the Witcher beingness titled Project Sirius.

Elsewhere successful its financials, the workplace announced Cyberpunk 2077 has surpassed 30 cardinal copies sold worldwide, a leap of 5 cardinal from October past year. The game’s expansion, Phantom Liberty, meantime has sold 8 cardinal copies since it launched successful September 2023.

CD Projekt besides gave immoderate updates connected different Cyberpunk projects extracurricular of games.

After Netflix teased different collaboration earlier this year, the workplace officially announced it has teamed up with the streaming work for ‘another animation task acceptable successful the Cyberpunk universe’ pursuing the fantabulous Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

It’s unclear, however, if it volition beryllium animated by Studio Trigger, who worked connected the 2022 series.

The workplace besides described a unrecorded enactment Cyberpunk project, which was announced successful October past year, arsenic inactive being successful the ‘conceptual stage’.

Speaking astir the project, Nowakowski added: ‘The conceptual signifier has assorted stages of advancement, truthful we’re for definite further successful than we were a twelvemonth ago, but we’re besides not yet astatine the signifier wherever we would beryllium buying astir the conception to imaginable streamers oregon studios.

‘I’d accidental it’s astir apt a akin model betwixt present and present arsenic was betwixt erstwhile we announced it astir a twelvemonth agone and today, truthful wrong that model I would expect we’re going to get to buying [it] around.’

It’s inactive unclear whether the task is simply a movie oregon TV series, but it sounds similar we’ll person a portion to hold to find out, if it ever does travel to fruition.

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