CD Projekt Still Plans to Launch All 3 Games in the New Ciri-fronted The Witcher Trilogy Within a 6-Year Period

CD Projekt is sticking to its ambitious program to merchandise each 3 video games successful the caller Ciri-fronted The Witcher trilogy wrong a six-year period.

Speaking during a caller fiscal call, associated CEO Michał Nowakowski said that aboriginal The Witcher video games “should beryllium delivered successful a shorter play of time.” That’s due to the fact that CD Projekt has switched to Unreal Engine 5 for the afloat accumulation of not lone The Witcher 4, but The Witcher 5 and 6.

Here’s Nowakowski’s punctuation successful full:

"We’ve been utilizing UE5 for The Witcher 4 for astir 4 years now, and we’re precise blessed with what we’ve achieved. I deliberation you could person seen immoderate of that with your ain eyes with our tech demo uncover astatine Unreal Fest mates of months ago, and we’re precise blessed with the results of that arsenic good – we’ve already said that, but I’m ever blessed to accidental it again – and we’re blessed with however the motor is evolving done the Epic team’s efforts, and however we are learning however to marque it enactment wrong a immense open-world game, arsenic TW4 is meant to be.

“In a way, yes, I bash judge that further games should beryllium delivered successful a shorter play of clip — arsenic we had stated before, our program inactive is to motorboat the full trilogy wrong a six-year period, truthful yes, that would mean we would program to person a shorter improvement clip betwixt TW4 and TW5, betwixt TW5 and TW6 and truthful on.”

That’s a hugely ambitious merchandise program that comes crossed arsenic each the much astonishing fixed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was primitively released connected May 19, 2015 — 4 years aft The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Based connected Nowakowski’s comment, CD Projekt plans to merchandise The Witcher 5 3 years aft The Witcher 4, past The Witcher 6 3 years aft that, assuming it wants to dispersed each merchandise retired equally.

As we’ve seen, AAA video crippled improvement tin beryllium a hard endeavor that takes years to complete. Bethesda is inactive beavering distant connected The Elder Scrolls 6, which it announced successful 2018. Microsoft’s caller Fable game, owed retired successful 2026, was announced successful 2020, but improvement began earlier then. And determination was a five-year spread betwixt Sony’s merchandise of Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yotei.

So, the thought that CD Projekt volition merchandise 3 caller The Witcher games successful six years is surely ambitious, and it remains to beryllium seen if this program holds erstwhile each is said and done. But assuming it does, erstwhile tin we expect the games to really travel out?

CD Projekt has indicated The Witcher 4 won’t beryllium retired successful 2026, which means 2027 astatine the earliest. According to CD Projekt's latest fiscal report, 447 radical are presently moving connected The Witcher 4, up somewhat from the fig reported astatine the extremity of July. Clearly, it is CD Projekt's absorption close now, and accumulation is successful afloat swing. Let’s accidental The Witcher 4 comes retired successful November 2027. That would mean The Witcher 5 successful 2030, and The Witcher 6 successful 2033.

There are aggregate spanners that whitethorn extremity up being thrown successful the works. CD Projekt volition nary uncertainty person to negociate a console transition, which whitethorn oregon whitethorn not hap earlier The Witcher 4 comes out. And who knows wherever the world, generally, volition beryllium successful conscionable a year’s time, fto unsocial 4 oregon five? The video crippled industry, already struggling done possibly the astir transformative, disruptive clip successful its history, could beryllium successful a precise antithetic spot successful conscionable a mates years. It's conscionable intolerable to foretell overmuch of thing close now.

Meanwhile, CD Projekt has Cyberpunk 2 successful the works, though that’s further down The Witcher 4. Will Cyberpunk 2 travel retired successful betwixt 1 of these caller The Witcher games, oregon volition CD Projekt hold until the caller trilogy is retired earlier pulling the trigger? And let’s not hide The Witcher 1 remake CD Projekt is moving connected successful immoderate fashion. Will that motorboat amid the caller trilogy? There are different projects excessively astatine assorted stages of improvement astatine the Polish company, arsenic good arsenic non-video crippled projects involving its IP. In short, CD Projekt has a batch going on. A hellhole of a lot.

CD Projekt precocious ruled retired The Witcher 4 from this month’s The Game Awards, truthful don’t expect immoderate caller trailer there. Our past look astatine the crippled came via the hugely awesome Unreal Engine 5 tech demo successful June, which Nowakowski mentioned successful his comment. So, don't clasp your enactment for The Witcher 4, but erstwhile it yet comes retired — assuming everything goes according to CD Projekt's program — fans are perchance successful for an unthinkable six years.

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