Cyberpunk 2077 has just passed another huge sales milestone for CD Projekt Red, showing that despite a somewhat disastrous launch, the retro-futuristic role-playing game remains an incredible success for the Polish studio.
CD Projekt Red announced today that Cyberpunk 2077 had passed 40m sales which, when you consider Cyberpunk 2077 passed 35m sales back in November, it represents impressively strong ongoing sales momentum.
“40 million copies sold shows the incredible, lasting strength of Cyberpunk 2077 and is a testament to what CD Projekt does best – creating high-quality, immersive stories that keep players returning for years,” commented Michał Nowakowski, joint-CEO of the company. “It’s a great foundation for our upcoming projects in this universe, including the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 anime arriving this fall.”
For reference, The Witcher 3 has sold 65m units worldwide. Both tallies represent extraordinary successes in the video game world.
The reason for Cyberpunk 2077’s ongoing success is not detailed, but it probably has something to do with the additional Switch 2 version released last year, the popularity of the Netflix Cyberpunk Edgrunners series, which is about to get a second season, and something to do with attractive discounts offered late into the game’s lifetime. Cyberpunk 2077 is currently 70 percent-off on Steam, for example.
CD Projekt Red is also a big believer in long-term support for its games – an effort that was doubled here by virtue of such a messy launch. The turnaround point for Cyberpunk 2077 is largely accepted to have been the excellent expansion Phantom Liberty, which arrived in autumn 2023 alongside a 2.0 systems overhaul for the base game. But support continues even now with a PS5 Pro update for the game that Digital Foundry analysed and said made for “a much better looking game”.
There is of course a sequel in development, Cyberpunk 2, which is being made by CD Projekt Red’s relatively new Boston office in the US – a studio that’s to be the home of Cyberpunk going forwards. Meanwhile, over at Poland HQ, CD Projekt Red is hard at work on The Witcher 4, while simultaneously overseeing an unprecedented expansion for The Witcher 3 called Songs of the Past.
CD Projekt also recently rebranded to CD Projekt Red – Red being the name of its game development studio which used to sit alongside a game distribution company and GOG, but with those arms of the business gone, game-making serves as the totality of what the company does.
