CD Projekt Introduced its monetary outcomes for the primary half of 2023, on high 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 because the marketing campaign was launched. But, they count on most pre-orders to return in the course of the ultimate pre-release days.
On high of that, the bottom recreation has now handed a milestone of 80% optimistic opinions on Steam, reaching the “Very Optimistic” threshold. On high of that, amongst current opinions, nearly 90% are optimistic.
Talking of The Witcher franchise and workforce allocation, the workforce 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 Could). The workforce engaged on Phantom Liberty was about 300 folks, nonetheless the largest among the many developer’s groups.
Transferring on to financials, gross sales for the primary half of the 12 months had been 325.214 million PLN, down from 377.916 million year-on-year, as there was no comparable large launch previously six months.
Internet revenue was 91.271 million PLN, down from 113.746 million final 12 months.
If you wish to evaluate, you possibly can check out the earlier monetary announcement from March.
Throughout the Q&A session of the convention name CEO Adam Kiciński talked about that increasingly builders are going to be shifted to Polaris going ahead. A giant a part of the Phantom Liberty workforce will transfer over after the growth launches.
Some builders will transfer to different tasks, whereas some will preserve supporting Phantom Liberty even after it launches.
The studio can 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 may’t simply be quantified.
The QA course of on the growth hasn’t been accomplished simply but, but it surely’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 accordance with the corporate’s executives, it is a technology-driven choice as it is the final time that CD Projekt will work with the RED Engine.
Phantom Liberty releases on September 26 for PS5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC.
