Joint CD Projekt Red CEO Michał Nowakowski doesn't plan on turning the developer, best known for making games in The Witcher and Cyberpunk series, into a company that pumps out yearly releases.
The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2077's sequel are easily two of the most anticipated new games on the horizon, but part of their allure comes from how infrequently CD Projekt Red launches projects. In an interview published in Edge's Knowledge newsletter, Nowakowski says he wants CDPR games to come out more often without flooding the market.
"Our dream is to be making more games, although we never want to turn into the studio that's going to be launching a big game every year," he says. "It may happen, but this is not the goal. We have a rough ten-year rolling plan, but the goal is not to flood the games market with CDPR games. We just want to make really cool games, and we don't want to have a ton of IPs either. We're not planning to grow in that way."
Looking at the slate of upcoming CD Projekt Red games, the company's vision starts to come into view. The Witcher 3's Songs of the Past expansion is due sometime next year, followed by The Witcher 4 and two sequels hopefully dropping in the following six years. Then there's The Witcher 1 remake that's been quietly cooking for a few years, a multiplayer spin-off game, a Cyberpunk sequel, and a new IP, Project Hadar.
Given the five-year gap between The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 - not to mention the decade-plus-long-wait for an entirely new Witcher game - CDPR's insistence on a more frequent release cadence is understandable. And with so many games in the pipeline, I imagine the company's next 10 years will look a lot busier than its last 10 years, if all goes well.
