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It ’s been year since we got an update onProject Polaris — more unremarkably referred to asThe Witcher 4 — but developer CD Projekt Red announced Tuesday that it has now entered “ full - scale output . ”
Ahead of its quarterly investor call , joint CEO Michał Nowakowski said that the highly - anticipated game is in the “ most intensive phase of developing . ”
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“ We are very pleased with our onward motion on this task , and I wish to give thanks the team for its loyalty , ” Nowakowski said .
plot director Sebastian Kalembaconfirmed the news program on Xwith an image of some Witcher coins ( that were credibly tossed to your Witcher ) . “ With new challenges just around the street corner , it ’s the gifted and hard - working multitude who make me believe we can together make the coming Witcher Saga a noteworthy experience .
CD Projekt Red announced thatProject Polariswas in pre - production in 2022 with a short teaser image that pictured a wolf dependent commonly wear out by Geralt of Rivia laying in the coke and the tagline “ A new saga begins . ” We ’ve catch sparse updates on development since then , but we know that it ’s thefirst in a new trilogy of AAA RPGsthat’ll all be developed in Unreal Engine 5 . Nowakowski said during afinancial presentationthat it wo n’t be “ The Witcher 3 in young clothing , ” with new gameplay .
Indeed , Polarisis CD Projekt Red ’s biggest project flop now . As of November , 400 out of 650 developers are assigned toPolaris , with the second big project beingOrion .
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However , due to the switch to Unreal Engine 5 , development will take a while , with one estimate suppose it was at least three years forth .
It ’s worth noting that it ’s still indecipherable if this isThe Witcher 4.PolarisandThe Witcher 4have been used interchangeably , but global public relations director Radek Grabowski wrote on X that at the meter ofPolaris ‘ declaration , the teamdid not announcea biz calledThe Witcher 4 .
There are other Witcher games in development , includingCanis Majoristhat’ll be separate from the unexampled series , andSirius , which is being developed by Molasses Flood and is set in the Witcher universe of discourse . This all bring in sense asThe Witcher 3 : Wild Huntis one of thehighest - selling games of all meter .
In other word from Tuesday ’s financial presentation , CD Projekt Red announced thatCyberpunk 2077had sold 30 million copies . ItsPhantom LibertyDLCsold over 8 million since launching last yr .
