Tucked in amongst a variety of dry enterprise speak about gross sales milestones and long-term views, CD Projekt lately confirmed to traders The Witcher 4 gained’t be launched by 2026, pushing its potential launch window into the unimaginably far-off yr of 2027 and past.
“Although we don’t plan to launch The Witcher 4 by the top of 2026, we’re nonetheless pushed by this monetary aim,” CD Projekt chief monetary officer Piotr Nielubowicz stated, referring to the corporate’s said ambitions of pulling in a web revenue of two billion złoty (round $515 million USD) from 2023 to 2026.
“We’re kicking off a brand-new Witcher saga, this time with Ciri as the guts of the story!” recreation director Sebastian Kalemba stated on the time. “It feels so good to lastly be capable of say these phrases — for the longest time we knew that we needed Ciri to be the protagonist of The Witcher 4; it simply felt pure to us and we imagine that Ciri deserves it. On this recreation we need to discover what it means to really turn out to be a witcher by following Ciri on her Path. This trailer is a style of each that, and simply how darkish and grounded the world of The Witcher might be.”
The primary entry in a brand new trilogy, The Witcher 4 is certainly one of three Witcher tasks presently in improvement, a gaggle that additionally features a remake of the franchise’s 2007 debut and a multiplayer-inclusive challenge codenamed Sirius at Boston-based subsidiary The Molasses Flood.
Rumors point out Microsoft can also be focusing on 2027 for its follow-up to the Xbox Sequence X/S, which suggests followers might have to attend for an entire new console era to roll round to get their arms on the long-awaited Witcher sequel.
