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CD Projekt Red has really made its mark with the Witcher series. The latest game launched with great critical acclaim and has already garnered up quite a few sales. However, what about CD Projekt Red's other announced title? Back in 2013, the developer revealed Cyberpunk 2077, its next big RPG franchise, unfortunately though, we won't be hearing much about it until 2017.
Speaking with Reuters, CD Projekt Red CEO, Adam Kicinski, said that while the studio expects Cyberpunk 2077 to be a success, it isn't ready to be talked about as this year and apparently next year will be focusing on The Witcher: “We broke into the mainstream. It is such a moment in our firm's history that after some years people will look differently at CD Projekt before and after this release. ”
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Due to the studio's growing reputation and the mainstream success of The Witcher, CD Projekt Red is hoping that its next release, Cyberpunk 2077 will also be a big success: “We hope and we are certain that Cyberpunk has even bigger commercial potential. It is too early to talk about it, though. This year, and the next one will be the years of the Witcher.”
Cyberpunk 2077 was first revealed at the start of 2013 but so far, not much is known about the game. The studio still has plenty of work to do on The Witcher: Wild Hunt, with 16 free DLCs planned and two big expansions, the last of which is due to launch early next year. However, beyond that, it is not known what else the studio will do with the franchise.
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KitGuru Says: Nobody really knows much about Cyberpunk 2077 but it sounds like it will need to be revealed all over again by the time CD Projekt Red is ready to talk about it properly.
Via: Gamespot
I’m seeing the word mainstream a lot. Whilst it’s great that they’ve finally broken into that market, I hope it doesn’t spell their downfall like with Dragon Age.
Can’t wait for Cyberpunk 2077 since I saw it. Love the theme 🙂
Well the game was announced in 2013, and if we aren’t gonna hear about it till 2017 then we can assume that it’ll be out by 2018 the latest which will mean that the game will have been in development (of varying degree) of 5 year AT LEAST! Oh and no need to worry, CDPR build their ethos around high end no compromise AAA games, and even with TW3 graphics debacle I think it’s fair to say that they can be trusted
No, corporations aren’t to be truster ever EVER EVER EVER EVER.
‘no compromise’
You mean like not gimping PC games so that they will work on the consoles? Seriously dude, CDPR are a decent studio, but the graphics debacle can’t just be dismissed like that. It’s a direct effect of them moving into the mainstream, and it has had a tangibly negative impact on the quality of their games on the PC.
If going “mainstream” and by that I mean trying to get more people to buy their game in order to make money is the only way to have a game like TW3, then I will take the compromises, I won’t like it, but it’s better then having the game and then the studio going bust because the didn’t make enough money to cover their expenses.
Besides, from what I have seen, the Witcher is anything BUT mainstream, this is definitely not an RPG you can give to any gamer (of a varying degree) and expect them to just grasp it and go like you would CoD. You say that the quality of the game was affected, but Metacritic rating of 93 says otherwise (http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt)
I totally get that the downgrade sucked and that it looked better in the previous version (although not ALWAYS, check out a good comparison by CVG on youtube), but the actual game itself is obviously still EXCELLENT and the visuals, while downgraded aren’t on the level of Watch_Dogs, who had a much lower metacriic rating of 77.
I read somewhere that maybe the problem is the advertising, that we are shown the stars at reveal and then delivered the moon (bad comparison, sorry) and it seems to be the case here. Either way, if we look past the downgrade there seems to be a MIGHTY good game with still excellent visuals (although not epic as we wanted)
AAA? Hardly. The Witcher III is a decent game. But just that, only “decent”. It is not open world as promised, the movement mechanics are a joke. Fighting is boring, roll or dodge-swing a sword-roll and dodge again. And CDPR clearly shit all over PC so that console kids would be happy. I bought TW3 the day it was announced and have been on GOG for so many years its dumb. I love GOG and CDPR, but they better figure out where they came from and where they are going real fast. At this point they might as well sell out to EA and close the doors and be done with it. I keep hearing, “HURR DERR 16 FREE DLC” those are all things which would and should normally be in a game from day one. They aren’t really DLC.
They can shove it if it’s another NVIDIA cripple-ware title.
I can’t really tell you that the game is great since you’ve played it and didn’t like it, but all over the Internet, reviewers and the public have been saying that’s it’s a huge improvement over the Witcher 2, which means that they have to have done something right…. And yea their DLC is small stuff, which they may be lauding as free, but we’ve seen way worse, and also….. ITS FREE, why are we complaining?
I’ll be honest I haven’t had a chance to play it, I’m waiting till I’m done my exams so that I can enjoy it without guilt, so I can only go by what I have read and watched and your open world statement seems quite a bit off the mark to what I have read and watched, but I guess maybe you expected a bit more and that’s OK….
You say that they might as well go back to their roots or just get bought by EA, if by roots you mean nearly getting bankrupt because of lack of funds then you aren’t a great fan. Making games is a business and if they have to make games for the consoles in order to keep their doors open, I’m OK with that, especially if the “apparent” quality if their games is as high as the Witcher 3.
Besides let’s be honest, of all the things you listed, only the lack of true open world would have been different if the game was pc only, everything else would probably be the same
First let me be clear. I am thoroughly enjoying the game. It is a massive improvement over the previous Witcher games. And even on the lowest setting (my 980 broke and I am using a 670 during the RMA process) it still looks good.
When I talk about open world it means that a player can walk or run or ride their horse or whatever from one end of the world to the other. This is not the case with this game. It is a series of small maps (well, maybe not “small” but I mean relative to the total map size.) all connected together via quick travel sign post. If you walk up to the end of a map it just ports you back a few hundred feet from the edge. I guess that’s no worse than invisible walls. But again, the areas are not traversable and therefore it really is not open world. Still pretty big and awesome. For me the worst part is that every area is marked on the map by a “?” long before you “discover” it. That makes it much less interesting to just run around and find stuff like in Skyrim or something comparable. Instead I could just run from mark to mark and know there is nothing anywhere else.
When I said “they better figure out where they came from and where they are going real fast” I mean they were born and bred on PC, climbing into bed with consoles now might be a short term solution for money, but it is a death knell for the long term. I am happy for them to make the game for consoles, in fact I encourage it. But I think crippling the PC version so that console peasants stay happy is a bad move. Instead they should have made the console version as good as possible and the PC version as good as possible that way console users could see clearly what they are missing in other titles which are console exclusives and crap like that.