The Witcher 4 is concentrating on a 2028 launch window, CD Projekt has confirmed.
The announcement comes by way of a particular video message from Michał Nowakowski, Joint Chief Govt Officer, CD Projekt Pink. Assuming CD Projekt hits 2028 for The Witcher 4, and the corporate sticks to its formidable launch technique for this new The Witcher trilogy, we may see The Witcher 5 in 2031 and The Witcher 6 in 2034.
Nowakowski stated CD Projekt will exhibit The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt enlargement Songs of the Previous at gamescom this week, together with “a style of its darkish story” and the brand new content material.
Eslewhere, Nowakowski confirmed The Witcher 4 won’t be at gamescom 2026. “Our crew right here at CD Projekt Pink HQ is tough at work on a model new saga, one with Siri on the helm. We’ve got greater than 500 extremely gifted builders working to create one thing really particular for you. The Witcher 4 options an enormous and immersive open world, intense and action-packed gameplay, and a deep, impactful story that we hope will stick with you for a very long time. Merely put, that is our greatest, boldest, and most formidable recreation up to now.
“Now I do know you are wanting to be taught when it is coming. That is the query we’re listening to from you on a regular basis. So whereas we’re not exhibiting The Witcher 4 on the occasion, and we’re not able to share a precise date, I can let you know this: The Witcher 4 is concentrating on a 2028 launch window.
“I do know it is a bit of a wait and also you’d like to play it sooner, however let the crew cook dinner. Will probably be definitely worth the wait. Till then, there shall be loads extra of The Witcher to return, together with Songs of the Previous when it launches in 2027. And you may make sure gamescom can also be in our plans for the approaching years.”
Songs of the Previous is the third enlargement for CD Projekt’s fantasy masterpiece, and is due out 12 years after the unique recreation got here out and 11 years after the much-loved second enlargement, Blood and Wine. CD Projekt is co-developing the enlargement with Idiot’s Concept, a crew comprising “business veterans” who labored on The Witcher 3. Right here’s what we all know thus far.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Songs of the Previous first particulars:
- Songs of the Previous is the third enlargement for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- It would launch in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC
- CD Projekt Pink is co-developing Songs of the Previous with Idiot’s Concept
- Songs of the Previous will return gamers to the position of legendary monster slayer Geralt of Rivia for a model new journey when it launches in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC.
CD Projekt has urged Songs of the Previous will assist set the stage for The Witcher 4. Whereas telling a standalone story starring Geralt set after the occasions of The Witcher 3, the brand new journey will even act as a prologue of kinds to The Witcher 4.
Chatting with buyers in Might, Nowakowski was questioned on how the enlargement is being positioned within the franchise, why it’ll launch in 2027 after beforehand being anticipated this 12 months, and whether or not any of CD Projekt’s new trilogy of The Witcher video games will even obtain expansions, as The Witcher 3 has.
“In the beginning, we actually wished to ship an important expertise to the followers, a extremely cool enlargement that is going to make folks completely satisfied that they’ll come again to The Witcher 3 setting,” Nowakowski stated, discussing why Songs of the Previous was being made within the first place.
“After all, not directly, sure, it’s a reminder [of the franchise for fans]. It’s, in a approach, a prologue, though it is not a prologue in a verbatim approach of [being] a prologue for the precise The Witcher 4. Sure, you’ll be able to take a look at it as it is a strategy to keep sure chatter on The Witcher 3. All of these are unwanted effects, further unwanted effects. The core factor for us, from our perspective, is absolutely delivering a high-quality, enjoyable expertise to the prevailing followers of The Witcher.”
“We had a second the place our plans assumed that Songs of the Previous can be launched this 12 months,” Nowakowski stated, when questioned why the enlargement was launching later than anticipated. “We determined along with the event crew, that the sport shall be launching in 2027, to be trustworthy, to attain the very best end result from the patron standpoint, which in the long run, frankly talking, is the one final factor that actually issues.”
Throughout a livestream aimed toward The Witcher followers, CD Projekt gave a number of additional hints on the enlargement’s focus, teasing the significance of Geralt’s new third sword — as glimpsed in a current piece of art work launched to have a good time a springtime competition. Geralt’s bard buddy Dandelion can also be current.
“We can’t give an excessive amount of away proper now as a result of we would like you to expertise it as you play,” senior group and social media supervisor Laura Beitzel teased throughout the 10th anniversary livestream designed to have a good time Blood and Wine.
“However as a number of eagle-eyed folks have already seen over the previous 24 hours, there are some hints ready for you on a vital night in Witcher lore, Belleteyn Night time, in our Belleteyn celebration that we shared a number of weeks in the past. So… preserve trying for clues.”
Right here, Beitzel is referencing a chunk of art work and a poem it posted on social media in April. It exhibits Geralt resting by a bonfire as Dandelion performs the lute whereas villagers dance. Extra importantly, although, it exhibits Geralt with a mysterious new sword — the identical sword he is additionally holding in Songs of the Previous’s reveal art work, which sports activities an uncommon ornate curved crossguard.
“So sure, Geralt is holding a sword,” CD Projekt’s Amelia Korzycka continued, referencing Songs of the Previous’s key art work. “It’s a essential sword for the story and you’re going to get to understand it when the sport comes out. So a number of extra streams earlier than that when [we] reveal it.”
Beitzel additionally mentioned the scale of the enlargement. “Songs of the Previous shall be aligned with what you are accustomed to in Blood and Wine, and what you have come to expertise and count on from us once we do our expansions,” Beitzel defined. “It is an enlargement, let’s make it clear.”
We even have affirmation that Songs of the Previous will embody extra Gwent playing cards, and that CD Projekt was nonetheless engaged on cross-platform mod help for The Witcher 3, to launch in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.
CD Projekt has but to point out Songs of the Previous off in any approach because it introduced the enlargement in Might, so I count on we’ll see a trailer and, hopefully, some gameplay at ONL on August 25. The present kicks off at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm UK time / 8pm CEST.
The Witcher 3 lately hit an astonishing 65 million copies offered (it solely appeared proper that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim hit the identical gross sales milestone only a few months later).
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