CD Projekt Introduced its monetary outcomes for the primary half of 2023, on prime of details about Cyberpunk 2077, its growth Phantom Liberty, and the upcoming The Witcher recreation.
Talking of Cyberpunk 2077, We hear that CD Projekt may be very completely satisfied concerning the present pre-orders for the Phantom Liberty growth within the two months for the reason that marketing campaign was launched. But, they count on most pre-orders to come back through the last pre-release days.
On prime of that, the bottom recreation has now handed a milestone of 80% constructive critiques on Steam, reaching the “Very Constructive” threshold. On prime of that, amongst latest critiques, nearly 90% are constructive.
Talking of The Witcher franchise and workforce allocation, the staff engaged on the subsequent mainline Witcher recreation (code-named Polaris) has grown to nearly 250 builders by the top of July (up from 220 in Might). The staff engaged on Phantom Liberty was about 300 folks, nonetheless the largest among the many developer’s groups.
Shifting on to financials, gross sales for the primary half of the 12 months have been 325.214 million PLN, down from 377.916 million year-on-year, as there was no comparable large launch prior to now six months.
Internet revenue was 91.271 million PLN, down from 113.746 million final 12 months.
If you wish to examine, you may check out the earlier monetary announcement from March.
In the course of the Q&A session of the convention name CEO Adam Kiciński talked about that an increasing number of builders are going to be shifted to Polaris going ahead. An enormous a part of the Phantom Liberty staff will transfer over after the growth launches.
Some builders will transfer to different tasks, whereas some will hold supporting Phantom Liberty even after it launches.
The studio can also be completely satisfied concerning the change to Unreal Engine 5, which is proving to be a sensible choice.
We additionally hear that model 2.0 of Cyberpunk 2077, which is able to launch alongside Phantom Liberty will add to the lifetime worth of the Cyberpunk franchise, albeit the impact is intangible and might’t simply be quantified.
The QA course of on the growth hasn’t been accomplished simply but, nevertheless it’s nearly accomplished, whereas we be taught that the choice of not making one other growth is already made and confirmed, no matter how a lot Phantom Liberty will promote.
In keeping with the corporate’s executives, it is a technology-driven resolution as it is the final time that CD Projekt will work with the RED Engine.
Phantom Liberty releases on September 26 for PS5, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PC.
