The co-founder of The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Pink, Marcin Iwiński, has mentioned the studio has realized to stick to its “area of interest.” That’s: “AAA RPG, open-world narrative-driven video games.”
In an interview on the studio’s AnsweRed podcast, Iwiński sat down with joint-CEO Adam Badowski to speak about life on the studio, reflecting on its video games and admitting that whereas the workforce has been tempted to department out into completely different types and genres of video games, open-world RPGs is what it is best at.
“Another vital factor which we realized over the time, and I feel Adam will completely agree, [is] […] we have realized that we have now to be razor-sharp targeted,” Iwiński mentioned. “We can not accomplish that many issues we’d love to do — we’re tempted to do. We tried and it did not work out. We’ve got to deal with what we’re good at, and actually put 100% into it.
“That’s why we switched from a single undertaking firm to the a number of undertaking,” Badowski added. “However all the things is in our technique. We’re gonna develop AAA RPG, open-world narrative-driven video games and that is our, as an instance, area of interest. So the main focus is there.”
“It sounds so easy,” Iwiński agreed. “If you’re rising, it is laborious as a result of there are all these temptations and ‘these persons are doing these things on-line, and it is so cool and we love to play it,’ and also you suppose okay, no, let’s take a deep breath and are available again to what we’re doing. As a result of if we unfold ourselves too skinny, we’ll not ship.”
“Concepts are nice, video games are higher and higher gameplay-wise — particularly gameplay-wise. However you want to take it and adapt it to our idea,” Badowski added. “So it takes time. The preliminary pleasure is nice, but it surely would not work [over] the long run.”
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is now up to an unbelievable 60 million copies offered throughout base recreation gross sales and the GOTY model, and that determine would not even embrace the individually offered expansions.
Final week we realized The Witcher 3 is getting yet another patch later in 2025, bringing cross-platform mod assist to the sport and making mods accessible 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 would introduce cross-platform mod assist for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X and S later this yr. “For the primary time, creating, sharing, and having fun with mods for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will likely be simpler and extra accessible than ever,” CD Projekt mentioned.
As for The Witcher 4? That’s in full manufacturing now, but it surely gained’t be out till 2027 on the earliest. CD Projekt can be engaged on Cyberpunk 2, Undertaking Sirius (a multiplayer Witcher recreation), Undertaking Hadar (an authentic recreation), and a remake of The Witcher 1.
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