Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Pink says its upcoming growth, Phantom Liberty, will function the sport’s one and solely growth due to its “technological resolution” to maneuver from CDPR’s personal REDengine know-how to Unreal 5.
Throughout a Q&A portion of CD Venture Pink’s earnings name on Wednesday (h/t Video Video games Chronicle), Michał Nowakowski, CD Projekt Pink’s senior vice chairman of enterprise, reiterated the developer’s beforehand acknowledged stance on not making a second growth to Cyberpunk 2077—no matter whether or not or not Phantom Liberty’s gross sales do gangbusters—saying “the choice [not to] had already been made.”
He continued:
As we have now introduced a very long time in the past, we’re not going to make a second or third [Cyberpunk 2077] growth. That is the one growth of the sport, and it has nothing to do with the numbers and the way happy or not we’re with gross sales or something of the type. It’s a technological resolution to be trustworthy. That is the final time we’re engaged on the REDengine in the meanwhile a minimum of, and within the foreseeable future as you already know we’re engaged on the Unreal Engine from Epic. This was one of many key the explanation why we determined this was the one [Cyberpunk expansion].
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Final 12 months, CDPR introduced its “multi-year strategic partnership with Epic Video games” to develop a brand new Witcher recreation in addition to a remake of the unique 2007 Witcher online game, which is being constructed from the bottom up in Unreal Engine 5 by Polish studio Idiot’s Concept.
Phantom Liberty, which can overhaul main gameplay mechanics and flesh out the Cyberpunk 2077 world alongside a free model 2.0 replace, will launch on September 26.