The Witcher 4 is "the most advanced" game CD Projekt is working on right now, ahead of Cyberpunk 2 and The Witcher remake
Jul. 13, 2024CDPR has a busy slate, but The Witcher 4 is at its head
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The Witcher 4is the “most advanced” project of all the games thatCD Projekt Red(and its partners) are working on right now.
That’s according to Pawel Sasko, associate game director on the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel. Speaking on theFlow Gamespodcast, Sasko wasn’t able to give much detail on any of theupcoming CD Projekt Red games, but he did give a rundown of the whole bunch, explaining that The Witcher 4 is by far the furthest along.
Sasko echoed statements from a CD Projekt investor call in May, which itself reaffirmed plans stating thatThe Witcher 4 will enter production later this year. OutliningThe Witcher 1 Remake,Cyberpunk 2, a somewhat troubled spin-off,Project Sirius, and the new Witcher saga starting with The Witcher 4, Sasko notes that the latter game is “the most advanced of all of those.”
Crucially, that’s advanced in terms of how far along it is, not how impressive its tech is. CD Projekt still isn’t really talking about The Witcher 4 as a game so much as an internal idea, and it’s likely that games like Cyberpunk 2 - set to release after The Witcher 4 - will push the technological envelope further. Sasko also reiterated that The Witcher 4 has the main part of CD Projekt’s workforce behind it, saying that “the most people are working on the Polaris project.” As of May, that number ran to"over 400 people,“suggesting that the developer is really ramping up for that production phase.
The Witcher 4 won’t be “The Witcher 3 in new clothing,” CDPR says “we will be adding new gameplay elements and new mechanics” to the RPG.
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