From announcement to launch, CD Projekt Pink sometimes takes 4-5 years to launch a recreation. And but, this quantity isn’t stopping them from making a daring declare: they need to launch The Witcher 4 and it’s two sequels inside a 6 yr span.
However first, some unhealthy information. Talking in an investor name, joint studio CEO Michał Nowakowski confirmed: “We’re not disclosing any particulars relating to the goal launch date, so there’s not a cut-off date I may confer with when answering such a query. The one factor we’re commenting is that we’re not launching in 2026“.
A number of questions later, somebody mentioned the staff’s transfer to Unreal Engine 5 and whether or not we may anticipate a shorter launch cadence for the deliberate Ciri trilogy.
“In a approach, sure, I do imagine that additional video games ought to be delivered in a shorter time frame – as we had acknowledged earlier than, our plan nonetheless is to launch the entire trilogy inside a six-year interval, so sure, that
would imply we’d plan to have a shorter improvement time between TW4 and TW5, between TW5 and TW6 and so forth.”
In different phrases, if The Witcher 4 releases in 2027, CD Mission Pink Goals to have the ultimate recreation launched by 2033.
That’s an formidable assertion for an organization that has struggled to fulfill its personal launch dates previously. In the event that they pull it off, they’ll have managed to efficiently launch three video games in almost the identical span of time it takes them to announce and launch simply 1 title.
In fact, constructing the primary recreation is probably the most time consuming a part of the method. As soon as that’s accomplished, it accelerates improvement of any sequels, as a result of until you drastically change issues, most of the instruments, options, mechanics and property could be reused. Nonetheless, it’s going to be a problem inside an business the place triple-A improvement instances have skyrocketed. If the staff can pull it off, I shall be deeply impressed.
