CD Projekt has confirmed that The Witcher 4 has entered pre-production.
While it doesn’t yet have an official title, the company announced in March that itsnext Witcher game will kick off “a new saga” for the franchise.
It also revealed at the time that the open-world title is being built withEpic Games’ Unreal Engine, rather than its proprietary REDengine, which powered previous Witcher games andCyberpunk 2077.
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 have recently wrapped up the research phase, which means the project has now progressed to pre-production and we’ve begun to capitalise development expenses related to this new game,” he said.
CD Projektclaimed in April thatThe Witcher franchise has shipped over 65 million units, including more than 40 million copies of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Following a delay, it confirmed last week that The Witcher 3 is nowscheduled to be released for new-gen consoles in the fourth quarter of 2022.
CD Projekt said in April that Cyberpunk 2077 had sold 18 million copies since its December 2020 release, and thata major expansion featuring a new storyline is in development.
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Nielubowicz said on Thursday thatCD Projekt Redis working on another Cyberpunk 2077 update featuring “further improvements” to the game.
“However,” he added, “the bulk of our production capacity has now shifted to developing a large, story-driven expansion for Cyberpunk, which we expect to release next year.”
Hundreds of lines ofdialogue reportedly taken from Cyberpunk 2077‘s expansionappeared online this week, seemingly outlining the entire plot of the DLC’s questline.
