Cyberpunk 2's dev team is set to double in size by the end of 2027, hopefully meaning its cyberfoundations'll be laid by then

Cyberpunk 2's dev squad is acceptable to turn substantially implicit the adjacent mates of years, arsenic CD Projekt ramp up development. While astir of their ranks close present are connected The Witcher 4, a crippled that's astatine slightest made immoderate nationalist cameos adjacent if it's inactive sans merchandise date, erstwhile 2027 rolls around, Cyberpunk 2 looks similar it won't beryllium excessively acold behind.

This info comes from the company's latest fiscal report, covering the clip moving from July 1st to September 30th this year.

In their presentation, CD Projekt interrupted immoderate shouting astir the archetypal Cyberpunk continuing to merchantability good by showing disconnected a developer headcount graph forecasting however they program to proceed "laying the foundations for Cyberpunk 2" crossed 2026 and 2027. These efforts travel lessons CD Projekt person said they learned from the archetypal Cyberpunk's infamous launch, with understaffing astir the pandemic contributing to successful the tally up to crunch and much game-centric foibles similar the RPG's European-style manhole covers being a grounds of immoderate struggles for a Europe-based dev squad to truly nail the nuances of an American dystopian city.

As of October 31st this year, the workplace says 135 devs are moving connected Cyberpunk 2. The graph shows Cyberpunk 2's improvement is divided crossed teams successful Warsaw and Vancouver, arsenic good arsenic a bigger radical astatine the newer Boston workplace CD Projekt acceptable up specially to enactment connected the sequel. As of these financials, the 135 cited look to chiefly beryllium successful Boston, with CD Projekt joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski noting that team's astir 80 radical beardown and mostly elder level staff.

"Having accomplished our extremity of gathering a beardown enactment squad astatine its core, we are present shifting to hiring much mid-entry level roles to transportation connected with pre-production works," helium explained. "We program to grow the Boston-based Cyberpunk squad arsenic the task progresses, and treble it successful the adjacent 2 years." So, that'd bring the squad to astir 160-ish radical by 2027. Meanwhile, the Canada and Poland-based teams are acceptable to grow, too, truthful the full ensemble volition swell to conscionable implicit 300 unit successful the aforesaid timespan.

The graph doesn't springiness nonstop numbers for these planned aboriginal headcounts and Nowakowski alluded to wanting to "shift the split" betwixt the 2 sets of devs to "around 50%" successful the aforesaid time, making it a spot harder to comparison these numbers to the 447 devs presently moving connected The Witcher 4. As of writing, it looks similar the 2027 headcount volition autumn abbreviated of that Witchery fig by astir 100 devs. One happening Nowakowski added is that the institution inactive powerfully judge each the concern they person made and program to marque successful adding the Boston workplace volition "pay disconnected successful the future, bringing the adjacent Cyberpunk acquisition to a caller level."

We'll person to spot if that means the teams moving connected it volition yet travel to surpass the fig of radical CD Projekt chucked astatine the original, which a presumption astir the company's 2020 fiscal results I've gone backmost and dug up cites arsenic having been the enactment of 530 developers. Cyberpunk 2077 was famously plagued with bugs astatine launch, truthful hopefully each this concern volition spot its sequel debar the aforesaid fate. That mightiness not mean lobbing much devs astatine it, though, particularly fixed a batch of CD Projekt's spending has been with the extremity of conscionable being capable to enactment connected Cyberpunk and The Witcher simultaneously, alternatively than switching backmost and forth.

Either way, with a much deliberate build-up implicit these adjacent 2 years, 1 would anticipation the effect successful a smoother roadworthy erstwhile the crippled truly starts to stitchery speed. For now, Nowakowski's "happy with the advancement the CP2 squad has made truthful far", but warned "it’s for definite excessively aboriginal to speech astir entering immoderate adjacent signifier oregon signifier of this project".

Numbers, eh? For now, The Witcher 4's the happening to support an oculus connected release-wise arsenic it's acold further on successful the pipeline, though Nowakowski has tweeted that it won't beryllium popping up astatine this year's Game Awards pursuing its uncover astatine slightest year's iteration.