The Witcher 4 will enter its production phase this year, and CD Projekt Red confirms it won't be using AI to replace developers
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Speaking toReuters,CD Projekt Redco-CEO Adam Badowski said that “we’d like to have around 400 people working on the project by the middle of the year.”
That suggests that increasing numbers of CD Projekt Red employees are moving away fromCyberpunk 2077and onto The Witcher 4.That lines up with both CDPR’s investor reportsand the fact that work on its sci-fi RPG is largely expected to be winding down after the release of its acclaimed Phantom Liberty expansion late last year.
While the studio seems to be scaling up its efforts on The Witcher 4, Badowski’s co-CEO, Michal Nowakowski, stated that while it’s looked at the potential use of AI in its development pipeline, any work used will likely not be visible to players: “We think that AI is something that can help improve certain process in game production, but not replace people.”
The Witcher 4 is the first entry in an entire new trilogy, but that’s just one aspect of a swathe ofupcoming CD Projekt Redgames expected in the coming years. Those include aCyberpunk 2077 sequeland multiple Witcher spin-offs. There’s no release date confirmed for the new Witcher saga, but CDPR has suggested that once the first game launches, the other two planned games in the trilogy will release within six years.
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