A lot of the new devs "are engaged on The Witcher 4"
"Over the previous 12 months greater than 220 builders have joined our groups," CD Projekt joint CEO Michał Nowakowski says in a remark shared to Twitter. "Most of latest hires are engaged on The Witcher 4 the place they assist to enhance high quality and scale up options offered within the Unreal Fest tech demo throughout the complete recreation."
CD Projekt Purple now has 933 builders in whole, with 499 of them assigned to The Witcher 4. You possibly can see the complete breakdown of how the devs break up throughout all of CD Projekt Purple's upcoming video games, but it surely's clear that the brand new fantasy RPG is the studio's greatest focus – simply because it has been for the previous handful of years. Even in 2024, when the sport hadn't even entered full manufacturing, the corporate mentioned over 400 individuals had been already engaged on it.
As chief monetary officer Piotr Nielubowicz places it in a video overview of the corporate's financials, "the manufacturing of The Witcher 4 is steaming forward." He, too, cites final 12 months's large engine demo, which confirmed off tech that the devs are utilizing to "create worlds with an unprecedented degree of element."
Whereas that demo is the closest factor we've seen to The Witcher 4 gameplay, CD Projekt has been eager to emphasise that it was "a technological demo and never an precise recreation, or gameplay."
