CD Projekt promises that The Witcher 4 will be bigger than The Witcher 3 and better than Cyberpunk 2077.

The Witcher 4 entered full production this week, reigniting fan anticipation. The next installment in the saga of Geralt of Rivia will be the first game in a new trilogy and will have a big innovation: the use of Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 instead of REDengine, CD Projekt’s own engine.

In plans The Witcher 4 are very ambitious, and the Polish studio is confident that mistakes and problems will not be repeated which brought him under control after a disastrous debut Cyberpunk 2077. Charles Tremblay, the company’s vice president of technology, spoke about this. Eurogamer that his next big game will set the bar even higher for the future.

The above was so confident in himself. The Witcher 4 who even dared to promise this? will be more than The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and better than Cyberpunk 2077. “The only thing I can say is that changing technology [por la adopción de Unreal Engine 5] This doesn’t change the fact that we will be ambitious. And the new game won’t be smaller or worse. It will be better and more than The Witcher 3and you feel better Cyberpunk“, he pointed out.

Tremblay also ruled out the possibility that The Witcher 4 endure such inconveniences as Cyberpunk 2077 at the time of its launch. “This is unacceptable [estrenar un juego de esa manera] and we don’t want to go back,” he noted.

Because The Witcher 4 It is developed on Unreal Engine 5.

Another interesting point that Tremblay brought up was the implementation Unreal engine 5 V The Witcher 4replacing REDengine. The head of CD Projekt explained that, contrary to what most people think, the decision was not made based on the disaster Cyberpunk 2077. In fact, he emphasized that the game’s problems are not related to its graphics engine.

According to the Polish firm’s technology leader, the introduction of Epic Games technology was conceived as part of a new strategy to work on several projects at the same time. According to the above, the company previously focused on one project, but with Unreal Engine 5, they can work on multiple proposals at the same time. Let’s not forget that in addition to The Witcher 4will be used in the remake The Witcherin continuation Cyberpunk 2077 and in new intellectual property, which is known internally as Hadar.

For now, The Witcher 4 no release date and few details are known about the game. eurogamer He asked Charles Tremblay if the game could be released on PC first and then on consoles a few months later, to try to optimize it as much as possible and avoid problems associated with Cyberpunk 2077. The manager replied that this was an issue that they had analyzed, but on which they were still They haven’t made a final decision.

“I don’t think that’s the strategy we want to take at the moment,” he stressed, although he acknowledged that it was likely that will not be released simultaneously on all platforms on which it will be available.