Cdpr The Witcher 3 Next Gen Isn T In Development Hell Development Of In House Multiplayer Tech Abandoned In Favor Of Unreal Engine

When CD Projekt RED officially delayed the planned Q2 release of The Witcher 3 next-gen to finish the development in-house, the studio did not provide an updated launch window, leading to rampant speculation that the project could be in some sort of development hell.

During yesterday’s earnings call, though, VP of Business Development and Board Member Michał Nowakowski said that’s not really the case.

In the same call, CD Projekt RED president and joint CEO Adam Kiciński estimated that The Witcher 3 next-gen would take around 15 internal developers to complete.

There was another newsworthy tidbit, though. You’ll undoubtedly remember that CD Projekt RED had promised a multiplayer mode coming to Cyberpunk 2077 before essentially scrapping it. During the earnings call, CFO Piotr Nielubowicz revealed that the studio won’t be using the internally created multiplayer technology, relying on Unreal Engine 5’s for future projects instead.