CD Projekt Red has unveiled its long-term product outlook, detailing its plans going ahead for the following decade and past. Chiefly amongst these have been an eyewatering 5 new video games in The Witcher franchise, together with a brand new trilogy of mainline releases. Additionally, two new The Witcher spin-offs – presently codenamed Project Sirius and Project Canis Majoris – have been introduced to be in growth by studios outdoors of the corporate.

Project Polaris – ostensibly, The Witcher 4 – is presently in pre-production, with over 150 of CD Projekt Red’s workers presently concerned. It’s said to be the primary entry in a brand new The Witcher trilogy, however extra apparently is the declare that after Polaris itself releases, CD Projekt Red is aiming to ship The Witcher 5 and 6 inside 6 years of 4’s launch.

Project Sirius, the primary of the two spinoffs introduced, is being billed as “an modern tackle The Witcher universe telling an unforgettable story for current Witcher followers and new audiences”, and is presently in pre-production at CD Projekt’s Boston studio, The Molasses Flood. As of proper now, 60+ builders are concerned with the undertaking. Later in the course of the presentation, it was confirmed that this title will embrace some type of multiplayer.

Perhaps most apparently, Project Canis Majoris is deliberate to be a story-driven, single-player open-world RPG set inside The Witcher universe. What seemingly units it other than being a mainline entry is its builders – because it has been contracted out to a presently unknown Third-party studio purportedly led by “ex-Witcher veterans”. Details in regards to the present standing of the undertaking, and what number of builders are presently engaged on it, are as of but unknown. One factor of notice is that the sport is deliberate to be developed on Unreal Engine 5.

Besides the follow-up timeframe said for Witcher 5 and 6 following Witcher 4’s eventual launch, nothing has been said in regards to the launch timeframe for some other of those releases. Naturally, launch platforms haven’t but been said both – although it needs to be assumed that at the very least a few of these video games will find yourself focusing on next-generation {hardware}. We’re not speaking about PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S right here, however somewhat regardless of the technology finally ends up wanting like for the consoles afterward.

Additionally, CD Projekt confirmed afterward within the presentation that the current-generation improve for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt continues to be deliberate for this 12 months; a finalized launch date for stated replace has nonetheless but to be revealed. We’ll you’ll want to provide you with updates on additional bulletins for each this incoming replace – in addition to any new info for these introduced initiatives – within the months and years to return.

This investor name was a giant one for CD Projekt RED. In addition to all this Witcher information, the studio additionally confirmed plans for a full-blown sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, and the early growth of an all-new IP, conceived solely throughout the studio – a primary for a corporation that has till now primarily based its video games on current universes.