The Witcher 4 Still Has Two Sequels Planned Within Six Years, CD Projekt Red Asserts

There’s nonetheless no launch date or window for The Witcher 4. However that is not stopping CD Projekt Red from stating once more that an entire new trilogy would possibly launch inside a six-year timespan. That is been the plan for years, however the firm reasserted this place throughout a recent financial call, in line with Eurogamer.

CD Projekt co-CEO Michal Nowakowski was requested concerning the firm using Unreal Engine 5 for The Witcher 4 and whether or not that might result in shorter growth cycles for future sequels. “In a manner, sure, I do imagine that additional video games ought to be delivered in a shorter interval of time–as we had acknowledged earlier than, our plan nonetheless is to launch the entire trilogy inside a six-year interval, so sure, that will imply we’d plan to have a shorter growth time between [The Witcher 4] and [The Witcher] 5, between [The Witcher] 5 and [The Witcher] 6 and so forth,” Nowakowski mentioned.

Nowakowski’s co-CEO at CD Projekt, Adam Kicinski, mentioned this six-year timespan for the brand new Witcher trilogy in 2022–over three years in the past. To be clear, the clock would begin ticking on six years as soon as The Witcher 4 launches, and that will not occur till 2027 on the earliest. If, for instance, The Witcher 4 did come out then, that will imply CD Projekt goals for The Witcher 5 to hit in 2030 and The Witcher 6 in 2033.

The Witcher 4 entered “full-scale manufacturing” final 12 months after which appeared at The Recreation Awards 2024 with a trailer. Earlier this 12 months, CD Projekt Red confirmed off a tech demo of The Witcher 4 working on PS5. Whereas it wasn’t precise gameplay footage, the video noticed Ciri standing on a cliff, using a horse named Kelpie, and coming into a port city known as Valdrest. The Witcher 4 is definitely being developed with consoles in thoughts first, a change from how Cyberpunk 2077 was developed.

In the meantime, do not count on The Witcher 4 to point out up at The Recreation Awards later this month.