Hey. If you happen to have been anticipating or hoping to play The Witcher 4 someday earlier than 2027 regardless of it having not been in full manufacturing all that lengthy, I’ve acquired dangerous information for you. CD Projekt has mentioned that it is not at the moment planning on releasing the sport earlier than that yr on the earliest.
Don’t be concerned, although – it appears like a Witcher or Cyberpunk cellular factor all of us positively requested for may doubtlessly drop within the interim. Nicely, relying on how shortly a freshly-announced partnership between the writer and Scopely – the Saudi-backed large that now owns Pokemon Go and Monopoly Go – places out the sport primarily based on an unspecified CD Projekt IP that it is now making.
To start with, this crumb of information about launch timeline at the moment pencilled in for The Witcher 4 comes from the earnings name CD Projekt performed alongside the discharge of its 2024 monetary outcomes yesterday. PC Gamer noticed that at one level in the course of the company chatter, the studio’s CFO Piotr Nielubowicz mentioned relating to the web revenue targets attatched to the corporate’s share-based incentive applications for managers: “Although we don’t plan to launch The Witcher 4 by the tip of 2026, we’re nonetheless pushed by this monetary aim.”
As you’d think about, this was even picked up on by the investy people and requested about in the course of the Q & A piece of the decision, with Nielubowicz including: “We’re not going to announce the exact launch date for the sport but. All we may share now to present extra visibility to buyers is that the sport won’t be launched inside the timeframe of the primary goal for the motivation program, which ends December 31, 2026.”
So, most likely what we may have anticipated given the sport solely went into full manufacturing late final yr – not lengthy earlier than the complete reveal at The Sport Awards that noticed it given its correct identify quite than the codename it’d ggone by as much as that time, Polaris. There’s time for not less than a number of extra Witcher 3 playthroughs but, even in case you may need to dip into REDKit mods to freshen issues up in case you’ve logged as many hours in it as I’ve thus far.
Although, we would – and that is an enormous may – get a bizarre Pokemon Go or Monopoly Go-ish Witcher or Cyberpunk cellular recreation within the interim, with CD Projekt having introduced {that a} partnership with writer Scopely that’ll create “a recreation set inside certainly one of CD Projekt’s IPs”. Which IP that’s – one would assume one of many two I discussed earlier – we have been supplied no clue but, nor any further particulars as to when it may be dropping.
Ah effectively, even when we get nothing, it is extra time to roam the excessive seas round Skellige on the helm of a ship I’ve dubbed The Jankdaw or to wander about as centaur Geralt.
