Cyberpunk 2077 has sold 18 million copies, The Witcher 3 up to 40 million
Cyberpunk 2077 has sold more than 18 million copies, while The Witcher 3 has now surpassed 40 million and surpassed 65 million as a franchise.
CD Projekt Red’s latest financial results report revealed the latest figures for the studio’s two cornerstone franchises. The developer also confirmed that these figures were for copies of the games sold to customers and not just retailers.
Cyberpunk suffered a pretty disastrous start as the game’s console versions were riddled with bugs, but CD Projekt Red slowly brought the game up to a better standard, eventually releasing the next-gen versions in February.
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The financial report also revealed that CD Projekt Red plans to continue supporting the game in 2022, and earlier this week Quest Director Paweł Sasko said Cyberpunk is far from done.
“We’re all aware that there’s still a lot of work to be done,” he said, and that overall support comes with the development of a full DLC expansion for the game, which was promised before launch.
The Witcher, on the other hand, launched CD Projekt Red into mainstream success with its 2015 release and became IGN’s Game of the Year.
— CD PROJEKT IR (@CDPROJEKTRED_IR) April 14, 2022
There may have been a pick up in sales lately as the developer announced that a new Witcher game is on the way. Fans have since speculated what the single teaser image could mean, but otherwise CD Projekt Red has said very little other than that the game will be built in Unreal Engine 5.
Another sales boost is likely to arrive when the next-gen version of The Witcher 3 finally launches, but CD Projekt Red just announced that this has been delayed again.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally thinks about tweeting @thelastdinsdale. He’ll be talking about The Witcher all day.
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