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 Government Officer, CD Projekt Pink. Assuming CD Projekt hits 2028 for The Witcher 4, and the corporate sticks to its ambitious release strategy for this new The Witcher trilogy, we might see The Witcher 5 in 2031 and The Witcher 6 in 2034.
Nowakowski mentioned CD Projekt will showcase 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 is not going to be at gamescom 2026. “Our crew right here at CD Projekt Pink HQ is difficult at work on a model new saga, one with Siri on the helm. Now we have 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 largest, boldest, and most formidable sport to this point.
“Now I do know you are wanting to study 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 an actual date, I can inform you this: The Witcher 4 is concentrating on a 2028 launch window.
“I do know it’s kind of of a wait and also you’d like to play it sooner, however let the crew prepare dinner. It will likely be well worth the wait. Till then, there shall be loads extra of The Witcher to come back, together with Songs of the Previous when it launches in 2027. And you may make certain 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 sport 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 Idea, a crew comprising “trade 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 should launch in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC
- CD Projekt Pink is co-developing Songs of the Previous with Idiot’s Idea
- 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 Sequence X|S, and PC.
CD Projekt has urged Songs of the Past will help set the stage for the upcoming 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 types to The Witcher 4.
Chatting with traders in Could, Nowakowski was questioned on how the enlargement is being positioned within the franchise, why it’s going to 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.
“Firstly, we actually needed to ship an incredible 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 mentioned, discussing why Songs of the Previous was being made within the first place.
“In fact, not directly, sure, it’s a reminder [of the franchise for fans]. It’s, in a manner, a prologue, though it isn’t a prologue in a verbatim manner of [being] a prologue for the precise The Witcher 4. Sure, you may take a look at it as it is a approach to keep sure chatter on The Witcher 3. All of these are negative effects, extra negative effects. The core factor for us, from our perspective, is de facto 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 mentioned, 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 sincere, to realize the very best consequence from the patron standpoint, which ultimately, frankly talking, is the one final factor that actually issues.”
Throughout a livestream geared toward The Witcher followers, CD Projekt gave a few further hints on the expansion’s focus, teasing the importance of Geralt’s new third sword — as glimpsed in a current piece of art work launched to rejoice a springtime competition. Geralt’s bard buddy Dandelion can also be current.
“We cannot give an excessive amount of away proper now as a result of we wish you to expertise it as you play,” senior neighborhood and social media supervisor Laura Beitzel teased in the course of the 10th anniversary livestream designed to rejoice 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 an important night in Witcher lore, Belleteyn Night time, in our Belleteyn celebration that we shared a number of weeks in the past. So… hold in search of clues.”
Right here, Beitzel is referencing a chunk of art work and a poem it posted on social media in April. It reveals Geralt resting by a bonfire as Dandelion performs the lute whereas villagers dance. Extra importantly, although, it reveals 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 comprehend it when the sport comes out. So a number of extra streams earlier than that when [we] reveal it.”
Beitzel additionally mentioned the dimensions 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 anticipate from us after 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 embrace extra Gwent playing cards, and that CD Projekt was nonetheless engaged on cross-platform mod assist 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 manner since it announced the expansion in May, so I anticipate 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 not too long ago hit an astonishing 65 million copies offered (it solely appeared proper that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim hit the same sales milestone just a few months later).
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