Leaked Valve data reveals it's smaller than most AAA developers, let alone publishers – and The Witcher 4 seemingly has 5x more staff than the entirety of Steam
Jul. 15, 2024Valve is punching far above its weight
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Valve- the software giant that brings you Steam as well as the occasional game release - has fewer people working in the entire company thanCD Projekt Redhas working on The Witcher 4.
That figure is dramatically smaller than some of Valve’s biggest competitors. There are 20,000 staff acrossMicrosoft’s many studios, and just shy of that number atUbisoft. EA boasts a little under 14,000 staff, whileSonyis about 12,700 people. At only 336 employees, the entirety of Valve is smaller thanThe Witcher 4team at CDPR.There were 407 people on that project at the end of April, and that’s before you count the people working on Cyberpunk sequelProject Orion(56), the 20 people on original IPProject Hadar, and the nearly 100 developers on Shared Services (presumably including alternative PC storefront GOG). All in all, there’s around 630 people working at CDPR, a company that has a far smaller day-to-day impact on the overall industry than Valve does.
While we’re on the topic ofThe Witcher 4, it’s worth noting that those 400 devs have turned it into the “most advanced” gamein CD Projekt’s substantial upcoming catalogue.
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