During yesterday’s earnings call, though, VP of Business Development and Board Member Michał Nowakowski said that’s not really the case. In the same call, CD Projekt RED president and joint CEO Adam Kiciński estimated that The Witcher 3 next-gen would take around 15 internal developers to complete. There was another newsworthy tidbit, though. You’ll undoubtedly remember that CD Projekt RED had promised a multiplayer mode coming to Cyberpunk 2077 before essentially scrapping it. During the earnings call, CFO Piotr Nielubowicz revealed that the studio won’t be using the internally created multiplayer technology, relying on Unreal Engine 5’s for future projects instead.

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