CD Projekt joint-CEOs Michał Nowakowski and Adam Badowski have spoken about their lofty ambitions for the corporate. Chatting with Polish publication XYZ, the duo spoke about eager to develop past simply making the “greatest RPG video games on the earth.” Quite, they need CD Projekt to be a “international creator of popular culture and leisure.”
“We used to dream of changing into a producer of the most effective RPG video games on the earth,” mentioned Nowakowski (translated by Firefox). “Over time, we realized that it may solely turn out to be one very quick after the sport was launched. The earlier success can not outline us, as a result of it doesn’t assure one other. Realizing this dream is a continuing job, so we cannot lose our vigilance for a second – in any other case we are going to stumble over our personal legs.”
He continues to speak about wanting to make use of CD Projekt’s video games because the central anchor round which it may develop its franchises. This contains all media, from books to motion pictures. Nowakowski makes use of the critically-acclaimed anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners as one of many examples in the way it can develop the corporate.
“Right this moment, our ambition goes even larger,” he defined. “We wish to turn out to be a worldwide creator of popular culture and leisure – with video games within the heart, surrounded by merchandise and occasions addressed to followers of our productions. It may be something: movie, collection, animation, e-book, and so forth. ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners,’ an anime collection we created with the Japanese Studio Set off and which debuted on Netflix over two years in the past, is only a foretaste of what we now have within the set for years to return.”
What’s necessary for the corporate, nonetheless, is that it continues to make and launch extra video games that the corporate likes. Badowski spoke about how, no matter present market tendencies, CD Projekt wouldn’t abandon its initiatives to work on, for instance, a survival sport. The corporate needs to proceed its work on RPGs, because it has prior to now. Simply on a bigger scale this time round.
“We deal with making video games we like,” Badowski mentioned. “We is not going to throw every part if survival productions instantly acquire recognition. We’re not going to transform course. We wished to create the most effective RPG video games on the earth after we employed over a dozen folks, and we wish to obtain the identical aim right this moment, with over a thousand workers on board.”
CD Projekt RED is at the moment engaged on its subsequent main title—The Witcher 4. The RPG will deal with Ciri as its protagonist this time round, and is at the moment beneath improvement for PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. Take a look at the announcement trailer from again in December.
The choice to have Ciri as the sport’s protagonist isn’t only a visible one, nonetheless. The brand new character will play in a different way from conventional collection protagonist Geralt. In a current episode of the studio’s Answered podcast, senior communications supervisor Pawel Burza mentioned that Ciri will probably be a extra “liquid” character than Geralt.
“You don’t see Geralt doing these items,” mentioned Burza in reference to certainly one of Ciri’s fancier killing animations. “He’s nimble, however he looks like a block in some sense. She’s like liquid in comparison with him.”
The Witcher 4 doesn’t but have a launch date, and can fairly possible nonetheless take a while to return out since its improvement entered full manufacturing as lately as November 2024.
