CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077 sequel has formally shed its Mission Orion codename and can henceforth be referred to as Cyberpunk 2. That is because the studio offers its newest growth replace, confirming it is now entered the pre-production part.
A Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, codenamed Mission Orion, was formally introduced again in 2022, and CD Projekt has been offering traders with progress updates on its growth since then. Most not too long ago, again in March, it revealed Mission Orion was nearing the top of its idea part and can be coming into pre-production “within the coming weeks”. And now, as per the studio’s Q1 2025 earnings outcomes, pre-production is formally underway.
Asserting its newest growth milestone, CD Projekt additionally took the chance to jettison the Mission Orion codename and as an alternative start referring to the sequel merely as Cyberpunk 2. This does not, nevertheless, imply the title will completely stick; CD Projekt instructed The Verge Cyberpunk 2 “simply means it is one other sport within the Cyberpunk universe.”
Regardless of these notable developments, Cyberpunk 2’s crew measurement has solely seen a modest enhance for the reason that starting of the 12 months, with 96 developer now confirmed to be engaged on the venture versus 84 in February. The majority of the studio, as anticipated, is at present targeted on The Witcher 4, with 422 workers assigned to the venture. That is in comparison with the modest 49 builders engaged on multiplayer The Witcher spin-off Mission Sirius, and the 19 on Mission Hadar – which is deliberate to be the studio’s first-ever unique sport.
All these manufacturing updates had been accompanied by a lot of gross sales milestones. Cyberpunk 2077 enlargement Mission Liberty has, as an example, now bought over 10m copies, whereas The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – which this 12 months celebrates its tenth anniversary – has seen over 60m gross sales.
As for what’s subsequent, CD Projekt has been priming a Change 2 model of Cyberpunk 2077 to launch alongside the console subsequent week, and a Mac port can also be on the way in which. The Ciri-starring Witcher 4 is probably going nonetheless some appreciable manner off, with the newly monikered Cyberpunk 2 – which is able to reportedly take gamers to second metropolis like “Chicago gone unsuitable” – to observe.
