{"id":749325,"date":"2026-06-20T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/749325\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:06:15","slug":"cd-projekt-red-co-ceo-hopes-witcher-4-wins-back-players-after-cyberpunk-2077-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/749325\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Projekt Red Co-CEO Hopes Witcher 4 Wins Back Players After Cyberpunk 2077 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

CD Projekt Red co-CEO Micha\u0142 Nowakowski thinks the studio has yet to complete a “full redemption arc” after the “heartbreaking” launch of Cyberpunk 2077<\/a>, but he’s hoping it can win back some fans with The Witcher 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nowakowski reflected on the Poland-based game developer’s journey during a recent conversation with Edge (via GamesRadar<\/a>). The interview saw him open up about how “heartbreaking” the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 was for the team \u2013 and for fans.<\/p>\n

“I’m not 100 per cent convinced we went through the full redemption arc,” Nowakowski said. “I’m convinced that we lost the faith of some people indefinitely, and that’s a fair thing.”<\/p>\n

It’s been nearly six years since Cyberpunk 2077 undid much of the goodwill CD Projekt Red had accumulated following the release of its 2015 hit, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/a>. Years of excitement for the futuristic dystopian RPG quickly fizzled out after launch-day players were met with a long list of game-breaking bugs, annoying visual glitches, and frequent crashes.<\/p>\n

These issues were especially prevalent on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One<\/a>, and although early sales managed to see CD Projekt Red quickly recoup its development and marketing costs<\/a>, the company’s reputation<\/a> had clearly taken a massive hit<\/a> in only a few days.<\/p>\n

Now, Cyberpunk 2077 is in much, much better shape<\/a>, and it has managed to sell at least 35 million copies<\/a>. Still, Nowakowski feels there’s work to be done when it comes to how fans see CD Projekt Red, but he’s hoping games like The Witcher 4 will help win them back.<\/p>\n

“But I do hope we will be able to make it back \u2013 if not with The Witcher 4, then with whatever comes next,” he said.<\/p>\n

Nowakowski continued, explaining how CD Projekt Red changed in the aftermath of the launch of Cyberpunk 2077: “We were left with seasoned, battle-hardened veterans; leaders who were able to carry a different kind of challenge on their shoulders.”<\/p>\n

“Our dream is to be making more games, although we never want to turn into the studio that’s going to be launching a big game every year,” he added. “It may happen, but this is not the goal. We have a rough 10-year rolling plan, but the goal is not to flood the games market with CDPR games. We just want to make really cool games, and we don’t want to have a ton of IPs either. We’re not planning to grow in that way.”<\/p>\n

Although development on Cyberpunk 2077 has largely concluded and The Witcher 4 has no release date<\/a>, CD Projekt Red isn’t leaving fans with nothing to play. A surprise expansion for The Witcher 3 called Songs of the Past<\/a>, for example, is expected to launch in 2027. Meanwhile, the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel known as Cyberpunk 2<\/a> also entered pre-production last year<\/a>, and a Witcher remake<\/a> is also in development.<\/p>\n

Michael Cripe is a freelance writer with IGN. He’s best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CD Projekt Red co-CEO Micha\u0142 Nowakowski thinks the studio has yet to complete a “full redemption arc” after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-749325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}