Cyberpunk 2077 is keeping the lights on CD Projekt Red. The Polish studio confirmed the 2020 RPG is now its main source of revenue as the rags-to-riches blockbuster reaches 35 million sales before The Witcher 3 did.
CDPR revealed the new milestone in its latest earnings report. “That’s a better result than The Witcher 3 was able to achieve in the same post-release time frame,” CFO Piotr Nielubowicz said. That make it now the company’s “main source of income” as it staffs up on Cyberpunk 2, whose development is split between teams in Warsaw and Boston.
While about half of the company remains focused on shipping The Witcher 4, CDPR plans to have over 300 developers working on the sci-fi sequel by the end of 2027, suggesting that year will mark an inflexion point as the studio pivots to the full production on the latter. At least if everything goes according to plan.
While Cyberpunk is still almost half short of The Witcher 3’s 60 million all-time sales, its new record is impressive for a game whose launch was one of the most high-profile disasters in recent gaming history. Despite praise for the PC version, the console port, especially on last-gen consoles, led to viral bug montages, fan revolts, and investor freakouts.
It’s not every day a game that was once pulled off of PSN by Sony becomes a company’s main cash cow. Much of that turnaround is owed to a series of massive patches and 2023’s fantastic Phantom Liberty expansion.
It’s no doubt also helped by a great Switch 2 port that arrived back in June. The five-year-old game runs great on Nintendo’s new hardware and gives millions of new players a chance to experience V’s tour through heaven and hell in Night City for them selves. Or anyone who played it years ago but still needs to go back and get the good ending. Thanks god for cross-save!
