Over 250 developers are working on the next mainline The Witcher game, which is codenamed Polaris, CD Projekt has confirmed.
The company provided an update on the size of its development teams engaged on current projects as part of its quarterly financial results on Wednesday.
The team working onCyberpunk 2077’supcoming Phantom Liberty expansionis its largest, although that will soon change, according toCD ProjektCEOAdam Kiciński.
“At the end of July, the Phantom Liberty team working on the pre-release phase consisted of 300 people,” he said during an earnings call. “That’s fewer than at the end of 2022, but it still it remains our biggest team. On the other hand, the Polaris team has grown to almost 260 developers at the end of July.”
“After releasing Phantom Liberty, we will transfer a big part of the team to Polaris,” he added later.
Phantom Liberty is set for release on September 26, and it promises toentirely overhaul the way Cyberpunk 2077 is played, according to CD Projekt.
The company first announced in March 2022 that it was working on aWitcher game which would kick off “a new saga” for the franchise.
It also revealed at the time that the open-world title was being built withEpic Games’ Unreal Engine, rather than its proprietary Red Engine, which powered previous Witcher games and Cyberpunk 2077.
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The gameentered pre-production last May, and in October CD Projekt confirmed that itwould be the start of a new Witcher trilogy. It also said it was planning to release all three games within a six-year period after the first.
Elsewhere during its earnings call, CD Projektexplained why Cyberpunk 2077 won’t be getting another expansionafter Phantom Liberty.
