Issues are going fairly good for CD Projekt proper now. The writer has simply shared its full monetary outcomes for 2024, and revealed that it simply recorded its greatest internet revenue for a 12 months by which it did not put out any main releases. Cyberpunk 2077 was the primary driver behind this, because it continues to assist maintain down the fort till The Witcher 4 arrives.
This data’s detailed in a recent press launch and presentation from the corporate by which it seems to be again on its monetary outcomes for the entire of 2024. There’s additionally a pleasant video starring CDPR CFO Piotr Nielubowicz that goes by way of the highlights.
“We’re very glad with the truth that, even within the absence of any main launch, the previous 12 months was the third greatest within the Group’s historical past when it comes to internet revenue,” Nielubowicz stated within the press launch, including within the video that this marks “the very best consequence we have now ever managed in a 12 months which didn’t embody any main releases.”
Figures sensible, that internet revenue was practically 470 million Polish złoty, with Cyberpunk’s base recreation and Phantom Liberty DLC being cited within the launch as having “generated practically 600 million [złoty] in earnings”, whereas The Witcher 3 “continues to draw consideration and produces a secure income stream” regardless of being 10 years outdated. As of the tip of November base Cyberpunk had shifted 30 million copies over its complete lifespan, whereas Phantom Liberty growth had shifted 8 million, which is good.
Naturally, this implies the studio’s trying to do extra Cyberpunk stuff, with the sport set to reach on MacOS in some unspecified time in the future this 12 months, and CD Projekt joint CEO Michał Nowakowski including: “We’re additionally working to increase the Cyberpunk universe. In 2024 we introduced a brand new animation undertaking, which is at the moment below improvement, and which shall be launched on Netflix. And that’s simply a few of what we have now in retailer.”
As for The Witcher 4, it is nonetheless very a lot within the full manufacturing stage it was revealed to have entered late final 12 months, simply earlier than it was correctly revealed at The Sport Awards. CD Projekt appears fairly satisfied with the reception that reveal bought, citing knowledge displaying that the trailer outdid the likes of Elden Ring Nightreign when it comes to trailer views on IGN’s channel and total share of press headlines within the 72 hours following TGAs, with “explicit consideration dedicated to Ciri” being protagonist when it comes to the latter.
The explanation for that final bit might properly have had one thing to do with a kind of foolish discourses that simply will not die – that being dickheads saying bizarre issues about Ciri’s face, and the remainder of us all going ‘you what, she simply seems to be like an precise grownup girl that is nonetheless very enticing’.
Anyway, to lighten the temper after eager about that once more, here is a Cyberpunk 2077 mod that’ll ship you random information about cats and canine as you play.