There are at the moment 627 builders working at CD Projekt Crimson, and because the studio revealed throughout its monetary 12 months 2023 earnings convention, 403 of them are actually devoted to work on Challenge 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 Challenge Orion, has a workforce of 47 and is presumably nonetheless within the early phases.
Answering shareholder questions after the convention, joint CEO of CD Projekt Crimson MichaÅ‚ Nowakowski patiently defined that, no, he wouldn’t be capable of reveal the discharge date of the subsequent Witcher recreation in a convention name. “Revealing the discharge date is mainly a part of the advertising plan and that is not one thing we’re prepared to do right here,” he mentioned.
Nowakowski did, nonetheless, speak concerning the dangers CD Projekt Crimson was taking by innovating in sure areas of the upcoming recreation. “Making [a] new recreation is all the time a artistic danger,” he mentioned, “particularly since we’re attempting to push new boundaries and discover new fields, do one thing we’ve not really executed earlier than.” Although he referred to as it “a reasonably broad paintbrush stroke” he did try to clarify what that meant. “Principally, I assume what I am saying is you shouldn’t be anticipating only a Witcher 3 in new clothes. I imply, after all we’re constructing on the shoulders of what was executed earlier than and on the learnings of what was executed earlier than, however we can 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 recreation is at the moment in its pre-production section, however CD Projekt Crimson is planning to enter full manufacturing within the second half of 2024.