CDPR Focuses on New Witcher Game 'Polaris'

TapTechNews May 29th news, after CDPR ended the development and maintenance of the Cyberpunk 2077 game, it has placed more development focus on the new Witcher game project code-named "Polaris". Currently, more than 400 people are involved in the production and it is planned to fully enter the production stage in the second half of 2024.

The co-chief operating officer, Piotr Karwowski, said in today's investor conference call: "There are currently more than 400 people involved in developing this game, and we plan to enter the production stage in the second half of this year. There is also a handy chart illustrating the breakdown." TapTechNews attaches the official introduction video as follows:

According to the information as of April 30, 2024, there are 407 developers working on the new Witcher game project code-named "Polaris", while there are 56 developers for the subsequent work "Orion" of Cyberpunk, 39 developers for the derivative work "Sirius" of the Witcher, and 20 developers for the independent IP "Hadar".

The information of the new Witcher game project code-named "Polaris" is not much. Currently, it is only confirmed that it is the first work of a brand new AAA-level RPG trilogy. The information disclosed by the developers at present is that the game will add "new game elements and new mechanisms" to distinguish it from the previous series of works.