CD Projekt is the next game in the new Witcher trilogy, Polaris calls it Witcher 4 until someone stops us, but now it's the studio's biggest project

"There are now more than 400 people working on the game," said Michał Nowakowski, co-CEO of CD Projekt, as a financial presentation. This is the first time that I have seen this video."There's also a handy graph that shows the breakdown: no, it's not a big change in numbers from previous reports, and for now it remains in pre-production, but still The Witcher 4's work clearly dominates CD Projekt's efforts.

It also fits with a statement made by co-CEO Adam Badowski on May 1, which CD Projekt says "We want about 400 people to work on [Polaris] by the middle of the year.""Given that number has hit 2 a month, optimists may even say that things are going a bit ahead of schedule," he said.

Alas, that progress should not be expected to see the studio immediately begin to see what they have in mind for their next big Witcher game. Perhaps because of the massive gap between Cyberpunk2077's initial announcement and its 8-year release, CD Projekt said in 2021 that it would not start marketing new games until the launch was much closer, and that it is clearly sticking to its plans.

"I wouldn't actually see Cyberpunk as a guidebook of how it would be specifically with the Witcher," said Nowakowski, adding that today's investor call CD Projekt is likely to do things like "teaser trailers and informative trailers" before marketing campaigns. He added, but the wheels won't start spinning it completely until there's something "practical" like when pre-orders are available.

"Something that's going to happen before is going to be more profitable, it's going to be more PR-oriented, etc., it's going to be a real kick in the marketing campaign" But I don't necessarily see what really happened with cyberpunk and at what moment it happened. . It does not necessarily coincide with what we are trying to do here."

CD Projekt first announced Cyberpunk2077 in 2012, but it was still hip-deep in Witcher3, leading to hopes, disappointments, delays and ultimately very problematic releases. Yes, we will review the quarterly financial report for updates on the project that we know is in development, but it's a hot and fresh "Geralt is back" trailer

Speaking of which, CD Projekt also has some sort of obvious rumor that the Witcher 4 teaser will be released in May. He declined to comment: "We don't comment on speculation, it doesn't matter whether it's about timing or who's working or not working on a possible, potential teaser or trailer.

Correction: The report originally indicated that the statement in the financial call of CD Projekt was made by Co-Chief Operating Officer Piotr Karwowski. They were actually made by Nowakowski.