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The Witcher 3 is getting yet one more patch later in 2025, bringing cross-platform mod assist to the recreation and making mods out there on consoles for the very first time.
CD Projekt introduced the patch as a part of the celebrations of The Witcher 3’s tenth anniversary. It’s going to introduce cross-platform mod assist for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X and S later this 12 months. “For the first time, creating, sharing, and having fun with mods for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt can be simpler and extra accessible than ever,” CD Projekt stated.
Cross-platform mod assist can be launched in a recreation replace launched later this 12 months. You’ll have to have a mod.io account and join it to your CD Projekt Crimson account in order to entry cross-platform mod assist. Present modding companies can nonetheless be used, that means gamers don’t want to make use of mod.io to add and obtain mods for The Witcher 3. Nevertheless, to entry mods on consoles, mod.io is required.
It’s value noting that whereas Xbox Sequence X and S and PS5 gamers can get pleasure from taking part in the myriad mods out there via cross-platform mod assist, mods should be created with a mod creator like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt REDkit on PC.
It’s a unbelievable replace for the 10-year-old recreation, which stays vastly standard and maintains a wholesome variety of gamers even now, a decade after launch.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is now as much as an unimaginable 60 million copies offered. The 60 million determine contains gross sales of the base recreation and the GOTY model, however excludes expansions offered individually. It’s near overtaking the newest gross sales determine now we have for Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In a June 2023 interview with IGN, Bethesda growth chief Todd Howard stated Skyrim had offered over 60 million copies. So, we now have a possible tie for the best-selling role-playing recreation of all time.
Right here’s Adam Badowski, joint CEO of CD Projekt, on The Witcher 3 gross sales milestone:
Definitely, the third a part of Geralt’s adventures marks a pivotal level in our historical past. The recreation earned tons of of awards and solidified our studio’s standing, however extra importantly, it introduced untold hours of adventures and feelings to tens of millions of video games the world over. I’m proud to announce that since its launch The Witcher 3 has offered over 60 million copies, securing a spot amongst the bestselling video video games in all historical past, and motivating us to hold on with intensive work on the subsequent trilogy set in this universe.
That’s a reference to The Witcher 4, which is at the moment in full manufacturing. 422 out of 730 builders at CD Projekt are working on the sequel, which received’t be out till 2027 at the earliest.
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