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Good news on, guess what day? Wednesday! So, here’s the scoop: Cyberpunk 2077’s sequel, yep, it’s actually happening—like, officially in pre-production, according to CD Projekt. Used to be this thing called Project Orion, but nope, now it’s just Cyberpunk 2. Straight to the point.
This whole reveal came out during some financial presentation. Kinda boring normally, but hey, you get excited when they mention new games. CD Projekt’s crew working on this is getting a pat on the back for reaching this stage. Meanwhile, they’re gearing up to drop the first Cyberpunk on that fresh Nintendo Switch 2 thing.
A bit of corporate talk: “The team finished the conceptual phase…” Blah blah, but the takeaway? Cyberpunk 2 moved into preproduction. Nice. Was snooping through their presentation slides or whatever and spotted that as of April 30, about 96 devs are on Cyberpunk 2 now. Used to be 84 back in February. Not huge or anything if you think about the 422 folks hammering away at Witcher 4, but still, it’s CDPR’s second biggest gig right now. Not counting the 131 folks doing the less glamorous stuff—localization, QA, you know, the backbone work.
Oh yeah, while they were at it, they mentioned Phantom Liberty sold 10 million copies. Witcher 3? That bad boy’s at 60 million now. It’s got more fans than, I dunno, some cities have people. Anyway, those monster hunter fans are hardcore.
Curious if CD Projekt will stick with just “Cyberpunk 2” or mix in a year like before. What do they have against years? Though we do get a tidbit from Mike Pondsmith—legendary TTRPG dude—saying something about a city that’s like a messed-up Chicago. What even is that? Makes you think, huh?
