The Witcher 4 won't be out until sometime in 2027 at the soonest, CD Projekt says

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The Witcher 4 won't be out until sometime in 2027 at the soonest, CD Projekt says

We don't know when it will release, but at least now we know when it won't.
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The Witcher 4 doesn't have a release date yet, although it's a safe assumption that it remains a long way off. The real optimists out there might be hoping that it'll be out sometime before the end of 2026—that's nearly two years away, after all—but I'm sorry to say that CD Projekt threw a bucket of cold water on that thought during today's fiscal year 2024 earnings presentation, saying definitively that it ain't gonna happen.

The first mention of the 'not in 2026' timeline came during a look at the "consolidated net profit goals of the motivational program to align top managers goals with the CD Projekt group objectives." While normally the sort of corpo-financial nonsense I'd pay good money to avoid having to listen to, in this case there was a comment that caught my attention: "Even though we do not plan to release The Witcher 4 by the end of 2026, we are still driven by this financial goal."

The goal in question is related to CD Projekt's share-based incentive programs, and I'm not the only one whose ears pricked up at the news that 2026 is out of the question, but 2027 is a possibility: It came up in the first question in the subsequent Q&A portion of the call, but CD Projekt declined to confirm a specific post-2026 release year..

"We are not going to announce the precise launch date for the game yet," CD Projekt chief financial officer Piotr Nielubowicz said in response to the inquiry. "All we could share now to give more visibility to investors is that the game will not be launched within the time frame of the first target for the incentive program, which ends December 31, 2026."

Ah well. The 2026 target was probably a little over-optimistic, but those high hopes weren't entirely without justification. CD Projekt said in November 2024 that The Witcher 4 had entered "full production," and while joint CEO Michał Nowakowski warned a few days later that the studio was going to be "smarter" and more careful about how it markets new games, it dropped a surprise cinematic reveal trailer just a few weeks later at The Game Awards.

Given that flurry of activity, and the fact that the possibility of a 2026 release has been mentioned around these parts once or twice in the past, and you can understand why some people might think, "Well, maybe." Well, no. Sorry.
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Seven years for a CDPR game is so god damn long. Hope the launch is at least worth the waiting.

I wonder if they still aims to release the new trilogy within six years, or that is bullcrap to begin with to fool the investers.

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FFS. Developers these days. They sure as hell take their sweet as time making games. So much bloat. Time to send in the DOGE. I just do not get how so suddenly it takes well over 5 years to make a single game. How many consultants do you really need?
 
Gaiff said:
What's the point in announcing it 3+ years before it's due?
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Hate this trend as much as the next guy but apparently studios do this as a form of advertisement, to get devs to apply for a position as they need to beef the teams up. It's why Cyberpunk got announced in 2013 but released in 2020.
 
I don't mind developers announcing a game a decade earlier as long as they can set a realistic release timeline.
They have outright stated this is 2027 now. Fine. Its fun to speculate and look forward to great games.

Announce a game when it goes into full production with a "vibe concept trailer" not reflecting gameplay at all like Witcher 4 is fine by me.
Having a complete Gameplay trailer would mean us being in the dark for 1.5 years or even more, and people complaining Sony doesn't communicate what first party are working on.
 
This studios don't learn... Their last game came out in 2020. It's 7 years.
This developers have to start cuting corners, develop shorter games with less useless content.
I guess they have to learn the hard way and go bankrupt. 3 years should be the norm.
 
Kurotri said:
Hate this trend as much as the next guy but apparently studios do this as a form of advertisement, to get devs to apply for a position as they need to beef the teams up. It's why Cyberpunk got announced in 2013 but released in 2020.
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It goes too far sometimes. What was the point of announcing ES6 in 2018 when it's 10 years or more away from release? Remember, this is the same company that announced FO4 and then released it later the same year.
 
Oh please take your time. I'm not interested anyway. It's not a Geralt game and that is the Witcher to me. No matter how much I pretend to care about this one, it will always be lesser. Witcher 4 starring Aloy instead of Geralt ain't it for me chief. There are plenty of MGS2 fans out there, so plenty will be fine with Raiden on this one. Just not me.

CDPR were really a flash in the pan for me. Witcher 1 and 2 were okay, 3 was excellent, then Cyberpunk sucked and they got it to middling but still to this day require you to play FPS and now they put out a new Witcher and replace the main character with DEI(technically). They also uglied her up a lot from Witcher 3 to make sure I can't make it work for me, which is a damn shame.

Oh CDPR, you coulda been a contender.

If this never comes out I would not care. How come Geralt gets better looking when he ages but Ciri gets uglier?
 
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Released broken in 2027. Playable by late 2028, definitive edition December 2029.

But there will still be those trying to pre-order today.
 
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analog_future said:
So I'm guessing Holiday 2028.
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That seems most reasonable date, crossgen release with next gen patch coming few months later.
We already know it worked well for cp2077 since that game sold over 30m copies already, official data:
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CD PROJEKT wraps up the third quarter of 2024 - CD PROJEKT

The CD PROJEKT Group posted 228 million PLN in Q3 2024 revenues owing to strong sales of Cyberpunk 2077, its Phantom Liberty expansion, as well as The Witcher 3 Total post-release sales of Cyberpunk
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  • Total post-release sales of Cyberpunk 2077 topped 30 million copies, while the Phantom Liberty expansion has sold over 8 million copies
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IDKFA said:
It goes too far sometimes. What was the point of announcing ES6 in 2018 when it's 10 years or more away from release? Remember, this is the same company that announced FO4 and then released it later the same year.
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In this specific case they did it to calm people down as they were gearing up for Fallout 76, a departure from what they usually did in the past. A sort of assurance that it's coming and the studio isn't jumping on the GaaS bandwagon so to speak.
 
Yeah, I kinda of figured that Witcher 4 would take a while. Plenty of games to play so I don't mind waiting. Hell, I still want to play CP2077 a bunch more times before Witcher 4, so take your time and cook it for as long as possible.
 
I will wait to build my new pc on 2027. Witcher 4 and gta 6 are the only relevant games in the next 2 years that will need more than 4080 and 14700k.
 
Zacfoldor said:
Oh please take your time. I'm not interested anyway. It's not a Geralt game and that is the Witcher to me. No matter how much I pretend to care about this one, it will always be lesser. Witcher 4 starring Aloy instead of Geralt ain't it for me chief. There are plenty of MGS2 fans out there, so plenty will be fine with Raiden on this one. Just not me.

CDPR were really a flash in the pan for me. Witcher 1 and 2 were okay, 3 was excellent, then Cyberpunk sucked and they got it to middling but still to this day require you to play FPS and now they put out a new Witcher and replace the main character with DEI(technically). They also uglied her up a lot from Witcher 3 to make sure I can't make it work for me, which is a damn shame.

Oh CDPR, you coulda been a contender.

If this never comes out I would not care. How come Geralt gets better looking when he ages but Ciri gets uglier?
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Partially how I feel about TW4. I just don't care enough about Ciri scissoring some fat lesbian villagers to get hyped about this game. Making Geralt would probably be the easiest business decision a company could make to earn some extra money. There would be no real controversy, people would just buy it. Why do companies risk losing money by putting an ugly lesbian or a black samurai inside their games, instead of just giving the fans what they want? That's just stupid.
 
Cyberpunk got a 2013 teaser, and only at 2020 got released - and the game was finished for real in 2021

Do the same math and there you go

Also, CDPR launched both Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk in beta stages. Put this on your mind too
 
Despite of all the progress in gaming, I do miss the 90's and early 2000's when games seemed to come out all the time. Nowadays, a game is announced with some random cgi trailer years before release. I do understand how games became more intricate, resource heavy and labor intensive to make, but still.
 
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Yeah, maybe dont spend 4 years on pre-production you morons. It's witcher 4. Write some quests, create an open world, shoot some mocap. You literally have the blueprint already, why go back to the design board for 4 fucking years.

Peak insanity.
 
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