CD Projekt has confirmed that The Witcher 4 has gone into pre-production, new images of the game will probably be revealed soon.
While the game doesn’t have an official title so far, the company announced in March that the new The Witcher title will start a standalone saga, opening a new direction in the series’ history. At the time, they also revealed that the open-world game was being built using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, not the proprietary REDengine used to develop the Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 titles previously.
CD Project’s chief financial officer, Piotr Nielubowicz, provided an update on the game as part of the company’s earnings results on Thursday. “We recently ended the research phase, which means the project has now moved into pre-production and we have begun to capitalize on the development costs associated with this new title,” he said. . CD Projekt announced in April that The Witcher franchise has shipped more than 65 million copies, including more than 40 million copies sold of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
After a lengthy delay, it was confirmed last week that The Witcher 3 is now scheduled to release for next-gen consoles in Q4 2022. CD Projekt said in April that Cyberpunk 2077 has sold 18 million copies since its release in December 2020, and that a major expansion with a new story is in development. Nielubowicz said on Thursday that CD Projekt Red is working on another Cyberpunk 2077 update that features major improvements to the title.
However, he also added: “much of our production capacity has now gone into developing a massive, story-driven expansion for Cyberpunk, which we expect to release next year.” . Hundreds of lines of dialogue believed to be taken from Cyberpunk 2077’s expansion have surfaced online this week, seemingly outlining the entire storyline of the DLC quest.