CD Projekt Pink first introduced that it was adapting Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk in 2012, and the sport had a prolonged improvement cycle that culminated in Cyberpunk 2077 getting delayed to 2020. As a result of the sport launched with quite a few bugs, Sony delisted Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Retailer for over six months whereas CD Projekt Pink addressed the problems. However now, for the primary time in a decade, nobody at CD Projekt Pink is engaged on Cyberpunk 2077.
The announcement got here as a part of CD Projekt’s newest earnings briefing, as CFO Piotr Nielubowicz launched the corporate’s up to date monetary outcomes for the primary quarter of 2024. Cyberpunk 2077’s enlargement, Phantom Liberty, was launched final fall. Since then, one final main replace for the sport was launched in December 2023.
On X, CD Projekt Pink launched a breakdown of its improvement group and its present tasks. Whereas Cyberpunk 2077 nonetheless had 17 builders on the finish of February, it at present has none.
There are actually 4 totally different gaming tasks within the works at CD Projekt Pink, every of them in varied levels of improvement. The Witcher 4, which the corporate has codenamed Polaris, has 407 builders at present engaged on the title. That recreation is predicted to start full manufacturing a while later this yr. There are an extra 39 builders engaged on a Witcher spin-off, which is understood internally as Sirius.
Moreover, there’s a Cyberpunk 2077 sequel in improvement internally referred to as Orion, which has 56 builders as of the top of April 2024. The fourth recreation CD Projekt Pink is engaged on is Hadar, a standalone IP that solely has 20 builders up to now.