Cyberpunk 2077 is preserving the lights on CD Projekt Pink. The Polish studio confirmed the 2020 RPG is now its essential income because the rags-to-riches blockbuster reaches 35 million gross sales earlier than The Witcher 3 did.
CDPR revealed the brand new milestone in its newest earnings report. “That’s a better result than The Witcher 3 was able to achieve in the same post-release time frame,” CFO Piotr Nielubowicz said. That make it now the corporate’s “main source of income” because it staffs up on Cyberpunk 2, whose growth is cut up between groups in Warsaw and Boston.
Whereas about half of the corporate stays targeted on transport The Witcher 4, CDPR plans to have over 300 builders engaged on the sci-fi sequel by the tip of 2027, suggesting that yr will mark an inflexion level because the studio pivots to the complete manufacturing on the latter. At the least if every little thing goes in accordance with plan.
Whereas Cyberpunk continues to be virtually half wanting The Witcher 3’s 60 million all-time gross sales, its new file is spectacular for a recreation whose launch was one of the crucial high-profile disasters in current gaming historical past. Regardless of reward for the PC model, the console port, particularly on last-gen consoles, led to viral bug montages, fan revolts, and investor freakouts.
It’s not each day a recreation that was as soon as pulled off of PSN by Sony turns into an organization’s essential money cow. A lot of that turnaround is owed to a sequence of large patches and 2023’s unbelievable Phantom Liberty expansion.
It’s little question additionally helped by an excellent Change 2 port that arrived again in June. The five-year-old recreation runs nice on Nintendo’s new {hardware} and provides thousands and thousands of latest gamers an opportunity to expertise V’s tour by way of heaven and hell in Night time Metropolis for them selves. Or anybody who performed it years in the past however nonetheless wants to return and get the great ending. Thanks god for cross-save!
