CD Projekt has mentioned it’s planning to launch main video games extra incessantly 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 multiple giant recreation concurrently, with the objective of constructing its launch schedule “much less lumpy”.
“We already labored on two initiatives on the similar time after we labored on [Cyberpunk 2077 DLC] Phantom Liberty as a result of that was a game-sized undertaking with virtually 300 individuals engaged on it, and on the similar time we have now already been engaged on Polaris, so we’ve had an expertise of engaged on multiple undertaking,” mentioned joint CEO Michał Nowakowski.
“And we’re engaged on multiple undertaking at the moment as properly. There’s Cyberpunk 2 being developed in Boston, there’s Polaris being developed predominantly right here in Europe, and clearly we have now different initiatives, with different groups like Undertaking Sirius, additionally in Boston with The Molasses Flood.
“And there’s The Witcher 1 remake executed in cooperation with Canis Majoris, so you’ll be able to 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 initiatives time clever.”
CD Projekt supplied an replace on the scale of its growth groups engaged on present initiatives as a part of its monetary outcomes on Tuesday.
As of final month, 407 builders have 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 mentioned it supposed to publish all three video games in a six-year interval.
56 workers are presently engaged on the Cyberpunk sequel, which is codenamed Orion. 39 are creating Witcher spin-off Undertaking Sirius, 20 are engaged on CD Projekt’s first authentic IP, which is codenamed Hadar, and 13 are engaged on “different initiatives”.
