Mobile video games based mostly on Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher may come sooner or later, however they would not be developed by CD Projekt.
As a part of a Q&A session throughout CD Projekt’s latest 2023 Fiscal Yr earnings name (by way of Video Games Chronicle), it was requested if the studio had thought of licensing its IP to third-party builders to make video games for cellular and whether or not such a deal could be a one time licensing charge or a profit-sharing settlement between the 2 studios. In response to CD Projekt CEO Michał Nowakowski, the reply to the primary query is sure, although they don’t have anything to announce on that entrance “simply but.”
“The reply is fairly easy right here,” Nowakowski mentioned. “The reply is sure, we’re contemplating such a transfer. In truth, we have been pursuing, by means of conversations, alternatives like that. Now we have nothing to announce simply but, however when the time comes, we might.”
Nowakowski went on to say that they might not go into specifics for any sort of enterprise deal and that there “is nothing in place that we’re speaking about.” There isn’t any “predesigned enterprise mannequin,” he mentioned, and that it might share extra details about any such deal “when the time comes.”
Although Cyberpunk 2077 has not but obtained a cellular recreation, The Witcher has. Gwent: The Witcher Card Sport obtained cellular ports, although assist for the title led to October 2023. One other Witcher cellular recreation, the Pokémon Go-inspired The Witcher: Monster Slayer, launched in July 2021 however shut down almost two years later in 2023.
CD Projekt is presently engaged on The Witcher 4, with full manufacturing slated to start this yr on what would be the first recreation in what’s deliberate to be a brand new Witcher trilogy. Greater than 400 persons are engaged on the subsequent entry within the critically acclaimed RPG sequence, roughly two-third of the studio, in keeping with Nowakowski. A small variety of builders are nonetheless offering assist for Cyberpunk 2077, whereas round 47 are engaged on its follow-up, presently codenamed Undertaking Orion.