Hey. When you have been anticipating or hoping to play The Witcher 4 someday earlier than 2027 regardless of it having not been in full manufacturing all that lengthy, I’ve received dangerous information for you. CD Projekt has mentioned that it isn’t at the moment planning on releasing the sport earlier than that yr on the earliest.
Don’t be concerned, although – it seems like a Witcher or Cyberpunk cell factor all of us positively requested for might doubtlessly drop within the interim. Nicely, relying on how shortly a freshly-announced partnership between the writer and Scopely – the Saudi-backed big that now owns Pokemon Go and Monopoly Go – places out the sport primarily based on an unspecified CD Projekt IP that it is now making.
Initially, this crumb of information about launch timeline at the moment pencilled in for The Witcher 4 comes from the earnings name CD Projekt performed alongside the discharge of its 2024 monetary outcomes yesterday. PC Gamer noticed that at one level through the company chatter, the studio’s CFO Piotr Nielubowicz mentioned relating to the web revenue targets attatched to the corporate’s share-based incentive applications for managers: “Regardless that we don’t plan to launch The Witcher 4 by the tip of 2026, we’re nonetheless pushed by this monetary objective.”
As you’d think about, this was even picked up on by the investy of us and requested about through the Q & A bit of the decision, with Nielubowicz including: “We aren’t going to announce the exact launch date for the sport but. All we might share now to present extra visibility to traders is that the sport won’t be launched inside the time-frame of the primary goal for the inducement program, which ends December 31, 2026.”
So, most likely what we might have anticipated given the sport solely went into full manufacturing late final yr – not lengthy earlier than the total reveal at The Recreation Awards that noticed it given its correct title moderately than the codename it’d ggone by as much as that time, Polaris. There’s time for not less than a couple of extra Witcher 3 playthroughs but, even in the event you might need to dip into REDKit mods to freshen issues up in the event you’ve logged as many hours in it as I’ve so far.
Although, we would – and that is an enormous may – get a bizarre Pokemon Go or Monopoly Go-ish Witcher or Cyberpunk cell sport within the interim, with CD Projekt having introduced {that a} partnership with writer Scopely that’ll create “a sport set inside one among CD Projekt’s IPs”. Which IP that’s – one would assume one of many two I discussed earlier – we have been supplied no clue but, nor any extra particulars as to when it could be dropping.
Ah nicely, even when we get nothing, it is extra time to roam the excessive seas round Skellige on the helm of a ship I’ve dubbed The Jankdaw or to wander about as centaur Geralt.
