CD Projekt has begun the “most intensive phase” of The Witcher 4’s development, expanding its team to 513 developers.
During a Q&A shared after its financial results, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski reaffirmed the company’s plan to release three new Witcher games over six years, beginning with The Witcher 4.
Nowakowski stated that the new trilogy will “most likely not release expansions” as with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, indicating a focus on core game releases instead of extensive post-launch content.
The Witcher 3 previously received two expansions: Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine.
CD Projekt recently announced a third expansion, Songs of the Past, co-developed with Fool’s Theory. Nowakowski confirmed this expansion will not be available on last-gen consoles.
The expansion was originally planned for a 2026 launch, but the release was moved to next year “to achieve the best possible result from the consumer standpoint.”
“First and foremost, we really want to deliver a great experience to fans; a really cool expansion that’s gonna make people happy to come back to The Witcher 3 setting,” Nowakowski explained.
“Indirectly it is in a way a reminder, a prologue – not in a verbatim way, but a prologue to the actual The Witcher 4, and you can look at it as a way to maintain certain chatter around The Witcher 3.
“But all of those are side effects, while the core thing from our perspective is delivering a high-quality experience to existing fans of The Witcher.”
He continued: “I would say it’s closer to Blood and Wine, but this is super subjective; it depends on your playthrough. But we’re definitely making a proper big expansion – that’s the message I would send out.”
In the first quarter of 2026, CD Projekt reported a 6% increase in overall revenue to PLN 191 million ($52.5 million), with Witcher IP revenue rising 36% to PLN 44.7 million ($12.2 million).
The Witcher 3, released in 2015, has surpassed 65 million cumulative sales.
