The Witcher 4 will begin full production soon - “work on Polaris is progressing” says CD Projekt Red
The next Cyberpunk 2077 game is also in the planning phase
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CD Projekt Red has provided an update on the development ofThe Witcher 4and theCyberpunk 2077sequel.
In a newpress releaselooking back on the studio’sfinancial reportfor the first half of the year, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski said that CD Projekt Red is now “gearing up to begin the full-fledged production phase” of the next majorWitchergame - akaProject Polaris- and that itsCyberpunk 2077sequel,Project Orion, is now in the planning phase.
“Work onPolarisis progressing – its development team is nearing a major milestone which will mark the end of the preproduction phase,” Nowakowski said.
“The first half of the year was also a busy period for our Boston studio, which is laying the groundwork forProject Orion– a new game set in theCyberpunkuniverse.”
The next Witcher game “Polaris” is nearing ending pre-production and will enter full production soon.The next Cyberpunk game “Orion” makes good progress.https://t.co/2IHWXsrhiP pic.twitter.com/EVMrAmQczSAugust 28, 2024
In a separate earnings call covered byVGC, Nowakowski reaffirmed that work on the studio’s ongoing projects is “pretty stable” and that they “have been progressing at a consistent pace.”
“ThePolaristeam is maintaining the right scale to enter the production phase very soon, while our work on both announced and unannounced projects is steadily progressing,” the CEO added.
Polariswas announced in March 2022 and will kick off a new saga for the role-playing game (RPG) series. As of July 31, 2024, it’s now being worked on by 410 developers, which waspredicted by CDPR CEO Adam Kiciński last year.
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As forProject Orion, the nextCyberpunkgamewill be made by the developers responsible for fine-tuning Cyberpunk 2077 and designingPhantom Libertyteamand was said to be in the conceptual design phase during October 2023.
Cyberpunk 2077’s quest director Paweł Sasko, now associate game director of the sequel, revealed this summer thatthe game is being worked on by former modders.
“Half of the quest team [on the nextCyberpunk] - this is the team that builds the quests which is at 24 people right now - are former modders,” Sasko said. “[They come] fromWitcher,Cyberpunk, and other games.”
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