Hey. If you were expecting or hoping to play The Witcher 4 sometime before 2027 despite it having not been in full production all that long, I’ve got bad news for you. CD Projekt has said that it’s not currently planning on releasing the game before that year at the earliest.
Don’t worry, though – it looks like a Witcher or Cyberpunk mobile thing we all definitely asked for could potentially drop in the interim. Well, depending on how quickly a freshly-announced partnership between the publisher and Scopely – the Saudi-backed giant that now owns Pokemon Go and Monopoly Go – puts out the game based on an unspecified CD Projekt IP that it’s now making.
First of all, this crumb of info about release timeline currently pencilled in for The Witcher 4 comes from the earnings call CD Projekt conducted alongside the release of its 2024 financial results yesterday. PC Gamer spotted that at one point during the corporate chatter, the studio’s CFO Piotr Nielubowicz said regarding the net profit targets attatched to the company’s share-based incentive programs for managers: “Even though we do not plan to release The Witcher 4 by the end of 2026, we are still driven by this financial goal.”
As you’d imagine, this was even picked up on by the investy folks and asked about during the Q & A section of the call, with Nielubowicz adding: “We are not going to announce the precise launch date for the game yet. All we could share now to give more visibility to investors is that the game will not be launched within the time frame of the first target for the incentive program, which ends December 31, 2026.”
So, probably what we could have expected given the game only went into full production late last year – not long before the full reveal at The Game Awards that saw it given its proper name rather than the codename it’d ggone by up to that point, Polaris. There’s time for at least a few more Witcher 3 playthroughs yet, even if you might have to dip into REDKit mods to freshen things up if you’ve logged as many hours in it as I have to this point.
Though, we might – and that’s a big might – get a weird Pokemon Go or Monopoly Go-ish Witcher or Cyberpunk mobile game in the interim, with CD Projekt having announced that a partnership with publisher Scopely that’ll create “a game set within one of CD Projekt’s IPs”. Which IP that is – one would assume one of the two I mentioned earlier – we’ve been offered no clue yet, nor any additional details as to when it might be dropping.
Ah well, even if we get nothing, it’s more time to roam the high seas around Skellige at the helm of a ship I’ve dubbed The Jankdaw or to wander about as centaur Geralt.
