CD Projekt Red has just announced that Cyberpunk 2077 has passed 35m copies sold, and that it reached the milestone faster than The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – the game that preceded it.
CDPR announced the sales milestone on X and in a quarterly financial report and accompanying video. It was in that video that chief financial officer Piotr Nielubowicz said, “This is a better result than The Witcher 3 was able to achieve in the same post-release timeframe. Cyberpunk is currently our main source of revenue,” he said, “and we continue to expand its availability.”
It’s been a busy year for Cyberpunk 2077, with an impressive adaptation released for the Switch 2 launch earlier this year, a tailored version released for Mac computers, and a release for Sony’s subscription service PlayStation Plus. All of these things helped push CD Projekt’s earnings higher than when the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty launched – alongside a major game overhaul – in 2023.
CD Projekt Red is currently bulking out the Cyberpunk 2 team as the project enters full production – there are now 135 developers working on the game, according to the updated financial report. But the studio’s biggest project by far is The Witcher 4, which has 447 people working on it.
That project – The Witcher 4 – was shown in an Nvidia-related tech demo in the summer, and CDPR was insistent that it was running on PS5, at 60 frames-per-second – an impressive claim given the visual quality on show. Will we see anything more of The Witcher 4 this year at The Game Awards, I wonder? It’s one of the titles vying for the Most Anticipated Game award – something Piotr Nielubowicz referenced in this investor video.
“Finally I would like to mention that we’re flattered by The Witcher 4’s nomination in the Most Anticipated game category at this year’s The Game Awards,” he said. “This nomination, which comes despite the fact that we haven’t yet kicked off the game’s proper marketing campaign, shows the extent to which the fourth instalment in The Witcher series is already hotly anticipated.”
The Witcher 4 stars Geralt’s daughter-like figure and protégé Ciri, who was semi-playable throughout The Witcher 3. The question is, will Geralt be semi-playable in her adventure – or playable at all at some point? That we’ll have to wait and see.
