The Witcher Developer CD Projekt Plans to Stick to its 'Niche' — And That's AAA RPG Open-world Narrative-Driven Games

The co-founder of The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red, Marcin Iwiński, has said the workplace has learned to instrumentality to its "niche." That is: "AAA RPG, open-world narrative-driven games."

In an interrogation connected the studio's AnsweRed podcast, Iwiński sat down with joint-CEO Adam Badowski to speech astir beingness astatine the studio, reflecting connected its games and admitting that portion the squad has been tempted to subdivision retired into antithetic styles and genres of games, open-world RPGs is what it's champion at.

"One much important happening which we learned implicit the time, and I deliberation Adam volition wholly agree, [is] [...] we've learned that we person to beryllium razor-sharp focused," Iwiński said. "We cannot bash truthful galore things we would emotion to bash — we are tempted to do. We tried and it didn't enactment out. We person to absorption connected what we are bully at, and truly enactment 100% into it.

"That's wherefore we switched from a azygous task institution to the aggregate project," Badowski added. "But everything is successful our strategy. We're gonna make AAA RPG, open-world narrative-driven games and this is our, let's say, niche. So the absorption is there."

"It sounds truthful simple," Iwiński agreed. "When you're growing, it's hard due to the fact that determination are each these temptations and 'these radical are doing this worldly online, and it's truthful chill and we emotion to play it,' and you deliberation okay, no, let's instrumentality a heavy enactment and travel backmost to what we're doing. Because if we dispersed ourselves excessively thin, we'll not deliver."

"Ideas are great, games are amended and amended gameplay-wise — particularly gameplay-wise. But you request to instrumentality it and accommodate it to our concept," Badowski added. "So it takes time. The archetypal excitement is great, but it doesn't enactment [over] the agelong term."

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is present up to an unthinkable 60 cardinal copies sold crossed basal crippled income and the GOTY version, and that fig doesn't adjacent see the separately sold expansions.

Last week we learned The Witcher 3 is getting 1 much spot aboriginal successful 2025, bringing cross-platform mod enactment to the crippled and making mods disposable connected consoles for the precise archetypal time. CD Projekt announced the spot arsenic portion of the celebrations of The Witcher 3’s 10th anniversary. It volition present cross-platform mod enactment for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S aboriginal this year. “For the archetypal time, creating, sharing, and enjoying mods for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt volition beryllium easier and much accessible than ever,” CD Projekt said.

As for The Witcher 4? That's successful afloat accumulation now, but it won’t beryllium retired until 2027 astatine the earliest. CD Projekt is besides moving connected Cyberpunk 2, Project Sirius (a multiplayer Witcher game), Project Hadar (an archetypal game), and a remake of The Witcher 1.

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