Growth on the The Witcher 4–codenamed Polaris–has taken one other step ahead, as CD Projekt Crimson revealed that it has 403 staff engaged on it. Earlier this 12 months, joint CEO Adam Badowski had talked about how he was aiming to have “round 400” folks on the subsequent mainline Witcher sport. This is roughly two-thirds of CDPR’s workforce, and in accordance with joint CEO Michal Nowakowski (by way of VGC), this can permit the manufacturing section of the sport to start later this 12 months.
Early within the growth of Polaris, Nowakowski talked about how the sport had simply 17 folks engaged on it as many of the workers had been reorganized and despatched to work on different tasks following the discharge of Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty enlargement. Cyberpunk 2077 nonetheless has 17 folks offering assist, whereas different tasks like Orion, Sirius, and Hadar have 47, 37, and 20 folks engaged on them, respectively. As of February 29, 2024, CDPR has 627 builders assigned to a number of video games, companies, and different tasks.
Polaris is the fourth essential Witcher sport and would be the begin of a brand new trilogy within the sequence. The first Witcher sport can be getting a remake and CDPR is aiming to modernize it whereas additionally eradicating a few of its extra dated parts. Throughout the growth of Phantom Liberty, CDPR applied an organizational overhaul. The firm has aimed to create extra open traces of communication and arrange versatile groups that may rapidly reply to any points in the course of the manufacturing of a sport.