CD Projekt Pink is shifting a “massive half” of its Cyberpunk 2077 group to The Witcher 4 (formally often known as Polaris) as soon as the Phantom Liberty Enlargement launches in September.
Talking throughout CD Projekt’s newest earnings name, president and CEO Adam Kiciński stated the corporate is shifting increasingly sources to the subsequent Witcher recreation with an enormous improvement enhance taking place when most important improvement on Phantom Liberty is full. There are at the moment “250ish” builders engaged on Polaris, whereas much more are engaged on the Cyberpunk 2077 growth.
“After releasing Phantom Liberty we’ll switch an enormous a part of the group to Polaris,” Kiciński stated. “Some remaining members will then deal with supporting different ongoing initiatives like Orion or Hadar however keep in mind we’ll even be supporting Phantom Liberty for a while.
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“And throughout the corporate however together with Phantom Liberty we’re on the identical time parting methods with some group members. It is a gradual course of which is able to finish in Q1 subsequent 12 months.”
Kiciński due to this fact made clear that not each developer engaged on Phantom Liberty will instantly shift over to the subsequent Witcher recreation, although as CD Projekt Pink’s improvement breakdown (above) reveals, it is doubtless many of the developer’s workers can be engaged on Polaris quickly. Official numbers will not arrive till the third quarter monetary replace on November 28, nonetheless.
As for the opposite initiatives talked about, Orion is the complete sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 whereas Hadar is a model new IP being developed at CD Projekt Pink. Each of those video games are nonetheless years away, as both Polaris or Sirius (the Molasses Flood-developed Witcher recreation) are anticipated to launch first, in 2025 on the earliest.
Phantom Liberty launches on September 26 and can see a ton of latest story content material added to Cyberpunk 2077 alongside a number of gameplay modifications. Vehicular fight, a Cyberpunk: Edgerunners impressed cyberpsychosis function, and a intelligent nod to The Witcher are coming too, although at the price of upping the sport’s PC necessities.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.