CD Projekt has stated it’s planning to launch main video games extra steadily going ahead.
Excluding expansions, the corporate’s flagship releases thus far have been The Witcher (2007), The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011), The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) and Cyberpunk 2077 (2020).
Throughout CD Projekt’s quarterly earnings name on Tuesday, the corporate was requested whether or not it has the bandwidth to give attention to a couple of giant sport concurrently, with the purpose of constructing its launch schedule “much less lumpy”.
“We already labored on two tasks on the identical time after we labored on [Cyberpunk 2077 DLC] Phantom Liberty as a result of that was a game-sized challenge with nearly 300 individuals engaged on it, and on the identical time we now have already been engaged on Polaris, so we’ve had an expertise of engaged on a couple of challenge,” stated joint CEO Michał Nowakowski.
“And we’re engaged on a couple of challenge at the moment as properly. There’s Cyberpunk 2 being developed in Boston, there may be Polaris being developed predominantly right here in Europe, and clearly we now have different tasks, with different groups like Challenge Sirius, additionally in Boston with The Molasses Flood.
“And there may be The Witcher 1 remake carried out in cooperation with Canis Majoris, so you possibly can undoubtedly count on us to launch extra titles and the cadence of launches is one thing we undoubtedly plan to extend, though I’ll clearly not touch upon what’s the house between the tasks time smart.”
CD Projekt supplied an replace on the dimensions of its growth groups engaged on present tasks as a part of its monetary outcomes on Tuesday.
As of final month, 407 builders had been engaged on Polaris, which is the primary entry in a brand new Witcher trilogy. On the time of its announcement in 2022, CD Projekt stated it supposed to publish all three video games in a six-year interval.
56 staff are at present engaged on the Cyberpunk sequel, which is codenamed Orion. 39 are creating Witcher spin-off Challenge Sirius, 20 are engaged on CD Projekt’s first authentic IP, which is codenamed Hadar, and 13 are engaged on “different tasks”.