The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Hits 60 Million Sold 10 Years After Launch, Approaches the Eternally Popular The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's Sales Figure

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is present up to an unthinkable 60 cardinal copies sold, CD Projekt has announced arsenic portion of its latest fiscal report.

The 60 cardinal fig includes income of the basal crippled and the GOTY version, but excludes expansions sold separately.

It’s adjacent to overtaking the latest income fig we person for Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In a June 2023 interrogation with IGN, Bethesda improvement main Todd Howard said Skyrim had sold implicit 60 cardinal copies. So, we present person a imaginable necktie for the best-selling role-playing crippled of each time.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launched successful May 2015, and precocious celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Here’s Adam Badowski, associated CEO of CD Projekt, connected The Witcher 3 income milestone:

Without a doubt, the 3rd portion of Geralt’s adventures marks a pivotal constituent successful our history. The crippled earned hundreds of awards and solidified our studio’s standing, but much importantly, it brought untold hours of adventures and emotions to millions of games the satellite over. I americium arrogant to denote that since its merchandise The Witcher 3 has sold implicit 60 cardinal copies, securing a spot among the bestselling video games successful each history, and motivating america to transportation connected with intensive enactment connected the adjacent trilogy acceptable successful this universe.

That’s a notation to The Witcher 4, which is presently successful afloat production. 422 retired of 730 developers astatine CD Projekt are moving connected the sequel, which won’t beryllium retired until 2027 astatine the earliest.

Last week, Doug Cockle, the dependable of Geralt, deed backmost astatine disapproval of The Witcher 4 focusing connected Ciri — and told alleged fans of the franchise to "read the damn books."

"That's conscionable stupid," Cockle said of the backlash against The Witcher 4, sparked owed to it featuring Ciri arsenic its protagonist for the archetypal clip instead.

"It's not woke," Cockle continued, speaking during a video published by Fall Damage. "There's thing woke astir it. [Ciri]'s a chill quality from The Witcher, and they're gonna absorption connected that character, and that's awesome."

Speaking exclusively to IGN up of The Witcher 4 reveal, enforcement shaper Małgorzata Mitręga said Ciri was “the precise organic, logical choice.”

“It was ever astir her, starting from Saga erstwhile you work it successful the books. She's an amazing, layered character. And of course, arsenic a protagonist we said goodbye to Geralt previously. So this is simply a continuation. I conjecture for each of america it’s similar she was meant to be. That was ever her.”

And successful February, the manager of The Witcher 4 clarified that a caller video featured the aforesaid in-game exemplary of Ciri aft immoderate had thought her look looked different.

We’ve got plentifulness much exclusive contented connected The Witcher 4, including a trailer breakdown and an interrogation with CD Projekt wherever the developer explains wherefore The Witcher 4 volition debar a Cyberpunk 2077-style motorboat disaster.

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