CD Projekt Red's CEO still thinks they need to finish their post-Cyberpunk redemption arc, and he's hoping The Witcher 4 will help

"I'm convinced that we mislaid the religion of immoderate radical indefinitely"

I deliberation contempt the messiness that was the motorboat of Cyberpunk 2077, it wouldn't beryllium close to accidental that CD Projekt Red's estimation was wholly tarnished. It is inactive a crippled with a batch of taste relevancy, and cipher tin unopen up astir The Witcher 3 to specified a grade that it's adjacent getting a marque caller enlargement much than 10 years aft the past 1 came out. Even still, it doesn't dependable similar associated CEO Michał Nowakowski is wholly convinced that the workplace has managed to implicit its redemption arc.

Speaking to Edge (via GamesRadar), Nowakowski spoke astir Cyberpunk's hard motorboat and however it was a "heartbreaking" clip for the studio. In his eyes, CDPR's estimation was its "biggest asset." But adjacent though successful the years since its motorboat Cyberpunk has done precise good for itself, Nowakowski believes they inactive person immoderate enactment to do. "I'm not 100 percent convinced we went done the afloat redemption arc," helium said. "I'm convinced that we mislaid the religion of immoderate radical indefinitely, and that's a just thing. But I bash anticipation we volition beryllium capable to marque it backmost - if not with The Witcher 4, past with immoderate comes next."

This is, of course, a precise CEO connection because, again, a batch of radical emotion their games, and the happening that matters astir to a CEO is successful information sales, a section Cyberpunk has done rather good in. But determination could ever beryllium more! In immoderate case, arsenic portion of the aforesaid interview, Nowakowski besides made it wide that they person nary volition of becoming a workplace that releases a crippled each year, adjacent if they bash privation to merchandise them much often (and merchandise 3 Witcher games successful six years).

"Our imagination is to beryllium making much games, though we ne'er privation to crook into the workplace that's going to beryllium launching a large crippled each year," Nowakowski explains. "It whitethorn happen, but this is not the goal. We person a unsmooth ten-year rolling plan, but the extremity is not to flood the games marketplace with CDPR games. We conscionable privation to marque truly chill games, and we don't privation to person a ton of IPs either. We're not readying to turn successful that way." Mayhaps CDPR volition beryllium the ones to interruption escaped from the obstruction that has go processing AAA video games. Probably won't! But maybe.