While the new Witcher game, codenamed Polaris, is currently still in pre-production, the number of developers working on the title has seen a significant increase as CD Projekt offers an update of their pipeline.
Last November, CD Projekt Red offered a small update on Polaris, confirming a large portion of their development team were beginning to move to working on the new project. At the time, roughly 50% of CD Projekt Red employees had been moved to working on Polaris, while the reset remained (or in the process of transferring) on Cyberpunk 2077 on other projects.
Well with support for Cyberpunk 2077 finally winding down, a bulk of those employees have now made the full transfer, as CD Projekt Red have confirmed (via FY 2023 reporting) that there are now 403 developers working on Polaris.
— CD PROJEKT IR (@CDPROJEKTRED_IR) March 28, 2024
This means that roughly 64% of CD Projekt Red is now working on Polaris, while around 77% as a whole are working on a Witcher-related project (Polaris, Orion, and Sirius). Though a bulk of the team is now working on Polaris, the title is still in pre-production stage
— CD PROJEKT IR (@CDPROJEKTRED_IR) March 28, 2024
Hearing that Polaris is still in pre-production might not be the news you wanted to hear, though it likely won’t be in that stage for much longer since almost everyone at CD Projekt seems to be working on an upcoming project. However, don’t expect to hear, or at least see, anything on the Polaris anytime soon, given the current stage the team is on.
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