Exciting News: Cyberpunk 2 Has Been Launched and CD Projekt RED is Pulling Out All the Stops!

Work has started on Cyberpunk 2 at the Polish studio, and more precisely at its premises in Boston. However, the continuation of their vision of the dystopian future imagined by Mike Pondsmith is still very far from being ready. Fans can rest assured, it will arrive one day, given the great success (especially financial) of Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty.

Cyberpunk 2 program currently being written

Internally codenamed Orion, Cyberpunk 2 is moving at its own pace. We learned in January that the project had been launched from Boston. Igor Sarzinsky, narrative director of CD Projekt RED, even announced the color to us with some enthusiasm. “ I couldn't be more excited for Orion, and I'm sure we can create something special. 2077 was just a warm-up “. The development of its sequel is in any case well into the warm-up phase.

Like The Witcher 4, which occupies most of the studio's strengths, Cyberpunk 2 is developed under Unreal Engine 5 to impress us. In fact, this highly anticipated sequel is still in an early state. CD Projekt RED has indeed indicated that it is currently only in the conceptualization phase. 47 people are currently working on the subject. This figure will certainly swell exponentially when the next major The Witcher game is further along. We will certainly have to wait a few more years before experiencing a new Sensory Dance.

A license now major in the CD Projekt RED portfolio

Despite its problems at launch, Cyberpunk 2077 occupies a prominent place in the Polish studio's portfolio. In addition to sharing some news about Cyberpunk 2, the call to investors was also an opportunity to review the figures for the first opus and its expansion. These are excellent, a sign of a franchise now in very good health. The base game and its DLC earned CD Projekt RED around $750 million (or 3 billion Polish zloty). In 2023 alone, the release of Phantom Liberty and update 2.0 generated $206 million in revenue. This would represent 25 million copies sold for the base game and 5 million for the expansion.

These are figures that are nice to see for the studio, but also for the fans. This means that the license is extremely promising. It is therefore not likely to disappear from the video game landscape any time soon. That said, several years certainly separate us from the release of Cyberpunk 2. It also remains to be seen what resources CD Projekt RED will deploy for its development. It should be noted that the first opus actually cost a total of 316 million dollars, and Phantom Liberty 85 million. However, things have settled down for a very significant Cyberpunk 2077, since only 17 people are now working on it. This is in order to apply a few final patches, before passing the second on a suite that is already closely monitored.