The Witcher 4 Has More Than 400 People Working On It, Full Production Begins This Year

Growth on the The Witcher 4–codenamed Polaris–has taken one other step ahead, as CD Projekt Pink revealed that it has 403 staff engaged on it. Earlier this 12 months, joint CEO Adam Badowski had mentioned how he was aiming to have „round 400“ folks on the following mainline Witcher recreation. That is roughly two-thirds of CDPR’s workforce, and in keeping with joint CEO Michal Nowakowski (through VGC), it will permit the manufacturing section of the sport to start later this 12 months.

Early within the improvement of Polaris, Nowakowski talked about how the sport had simply 17 folks engaged on it as many of the employees had been reorganized and despatched to work on different initiatives following the discharge of Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty growth. Cyberpunk 2077 nonetheless has 17 folks offering assist, whereas different initiatives like Orion, Sirius, and Hadar have 47, 37, and 20 folks engaged on them, respectively. As of February 29, 2024, CDPR has 627 builders assigned to a number of video games, providers, and different initiatives.

Polaris is the fourth fundamental Witcher recreation and would be the begin of a brand new trilogy within the sequence. The primary Witcher recreation can also be getting a remake and CDPR is aiming to modernize it whereas additionally eradicating a few of its extra dated components. In the course of the improvement of Phantom Liberty, CDPR implemented an organizational overhaul. The corporate has aimed to create extra open strains of communication and arrange versatile groups that may rapidly reply to any points throughout the manufacturing of a recreation.