It is possible that a whole generation of consoles will pass before this project reaches the players.
In October, CD Projekt RED (now only CDP) announced that they had four new projects. Project Hadar will be a brand new IP, Project Canis and Project Sirius tie into The Witcher franchise, and there’s Project Orion, which will be a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077. (Not a Phantom Liberty add-on!) These are all in primitive development, and we wrote about Project Orion. that CDP’s newly opened Boston studio would also work on it (the job posting publicly highlighted it).
Cyberpunk 2077 was announced in 2012, before CDP started working on The Witcher 3, and development reportedly didn’t start until 2016, so it wasn’t on the table until after the final release of The Witcher 3. Then, in 2018, the company hinted Polish pointed this out again after several years of silence, and then in 2019 finally announced the release date, which moved from April 2020 to September, November, and then December. eight years. a lot. However, Project Orion could go beyond this.
When CDP announced it, it couldn’t help but stress that the development is still very early. An RPG of this magnitude can certainly take 2-5 years, but it could be more than that, because the Poles dropped their home-made engine, so instead of REDengine they took Unreal Engine 5 from Epic Games. The company has five projects, and there’s a good chance The Witcher 4 will be the first of them to launch. The studio started putting this together in 2021, but we don’t think it’ll come out before 2025. If they release a project every year, Project Orion might not come out until 2028, after which we haven’t considered the new IP.
So the bottom line is that CDP could put a lot of wood on the fire at once, and it could hurt all of its products.
source: GameRant
