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The Witcher 4: the Polaris project will not be revealed before 2025 minimum

The Witcher 4, codenamed Polaris, won’t be unveiled until at least 2025. This is in any case what assured Adam Kicinski, co-CEO of CD Projekt RED, to the investors of the company during a call.

The Witcher 4 Polaris
Credits: CD Projekt

As you may know, CD Projekt RED made a major announcement this October 5, 2022. The Polish studio announced that they were working on a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, but also on a brand new The Witcher trilogy coming soon. A mysterious new license is also in the works.

Following the announcements, CD Projekt RED co-CEO Adam Kicinski spoke with investors in the company during a call, to clarify, among other things: business strategy and timeline. Of course, The Witcher 4, which responds to the code name Polaris, was at the center of questions from investors.

Several of them asked the manager if the studio already had an idea of ​​the release date of this new opus. The boss of the studio was clear: the Polaris project will not be revealed until at least 2025. For good reason, The Witcher 4 will use Unreal Engine 5, the latest version of Epic Games’ graphics engine.

On Polaris, CD Projekt RED must first tame the UE 5

In fact, the development of the title promises to be long and complex, a time needed to tame this new technology. “For Polaris, we prepare the technology. This is the first project to be released with the new Unreal Engine 5, there is an additional workload to develop this engine. For this project, we are clearly going to have to put in extra effort”, he explains.

Once the graphical base with UE 5 is laid, the development of The Witcher 5 and 6 will be much faster according to the framework of CD Projekt RED. He thinks that it will only take three years to conceive each opus. For now, we know that the pre-production of Polaris has started since May 2022.

As a reminder, fans are still waiting to get their hands on the PS5 and Xbox Series X version of The Witcher 3. Initially scheduled for 2021, this version optimized for new consoles should arrive at the end of 2022 according to a recent studio statement on Twitter.

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