A couple of months ago, CD Projekt RED announced the next The Witcher game as the start of a "new saga". Fast forward to today and it appears that the Polish studio will plan the future of the award-winning franchise much more deliberately.
The company's CEO, Adam Kiciński, spoke about the next Witcher saga on a recent financial earnings call. In it, Kiciński confirmed that CDPR has "more than one" planned.
Unfortunately, while this is welcome news, fans shouldn't get their hopes up. The next Witcher game is still in pre-production as Kiciński reiterated that it will use a new in-game engine, Unreal Engine 5, instead of an in-house engine. Hopefully, this lets CDPR fast-track the game's development since it can focus on using available resources as opposed to having to devote a separate team to work on the gaming engine. But, we wouldn't mind if CDPR took its time either.
The Cyberpunk 2077 fiasco is still fresh on everyone's minds. Even if the game is now worth playing in 2022, we'll forever wonder if Cyberpunk 2077 would've lived up to expectations had CDPR just released it in 2021, or made it exclusive to next-gen consoles.