The remake of the unique Witcher sport is on maintain for now, whereas its developer focuses on The Witcher 3’s upcoming growth.
CD Projekt Pink introduced again in October 2022 {that a} “full-fledged remake” of The Witcher had entered manufacturing, with Polish studio Idiot’s Concept main on improvement.
Earlier this 12 months, nevertheless, CD Projekt Pink introduced that The Witcher 3 can be getting a 3rd growth, titled Songs of the Previous, with a launch set for 2027.
Songs of the Previous can also be being developed by Idiot’s Concept, main some to marvel how this affected the standing of The Witcher remake.
CD Projekt Pink has now confirmed to Gamespot that the remake has not been cancelled, however has been put quickly on maintain whereas the studio focuses on getting Songs of the Previous completed.
The corporate defined that as a result of The Witcher remake shares a few of its structure with The Witcher 4, that sport’s improvement must progress extra earlier than work on The Witcher remake can totally proceed.
“[The] Idiot’s Concept group is targeted primarily on the event of Witcher 3: Songs of the Previous, whereas a comparatively small a part of their group is supporting the event of The Witcher 4,” a spokesperson for CD Projekt Pink informed the publication.
“As we now have beforehand introduced, the event on The Witcher Remake has been quickly built-in with The Witcher 4 resulting from manufacturing course of dependencies.
“As The Witcher Remake will likely be constructed on the inspiration laid by The Witcher 4, we have to have the mandatory property, instruments, and pipelines prepared for environment friendly improvement.”
When the remake was first introduced in 2022, CD Projekt Pink mentioned it is going to be “rebuilt from the bottom up” in Unreal Engine 5 and can be led by Idiot’s Concept with CD Projekt Pink offering full inventive supervision.
CD Projekt Pink co-CEO Adam Badowski mentioned on the time: “The Witcher is the place it began for us, for CD Projekt Pink. It was the primary sport we made, ever, and it was an enormous second for us then. Going again to this place and remaking the sport for the subsequent era of players to expertise it feels simply as huge, if not larger.”
