CD Projekt recently delighted fans and sparked huge conversations over the recent announcement of the long awaited announcement of The Witcher 4 being in full production. Now the dev team have started discussing their expectations for the next addition in the fan favorite series. While talking to Eurogamer, vice president of technology Charles Tremblay spoke how the team want to learn from their past mistakes.
I think that we have some cool stuff going, and hopefully that will have some good showcase [of the technology]. The only thing I will say is that changing the tech for us does not change the fact that we always will be ambitious and the next game we do will not be smaller, and it will not be worse. So it will be better, bigger, greater than The Witcher 3, it will be better than Cyberpunk–because for us, it’s unacceptable [to launch that way]. We don’t want to go back.
CD Projekt not only dedicated to not repeating the development and the quality upon release of The Witcher 4, but is also focused on the promotion of the that they feel they miss out on in their past releases. CEO Michał Nowakowski chimed on how CD Projekt wanted to change that.
I want to stress: it doesn’t mean we would not tease or drop some cool assets before [a full reveal], because the marketing campaign, slightly earlier before the launch of the game, that’s different than the actual, say, ‘mass attack’. Mass attack is when you announce the date, you start collecting the pre-orders and it really is that race from that point, that moment, to the moment you launch the game.
While there still hasn’t been a release date announced for The Witcher 4, CD Projekt HAS announced that the sequels (The Witcher 5 & 6) should be smoother development processes than the current development on TheWitcher 4, leading to a full release of all 3 new installments releasing by the 2030s.