CD Projekt Red (CDPR) co-CEO Michal Nowakowski confirmed throughout a latest earnings name that the staff will likely be additional animation initiatives throughout the world of Cyberpunk, largely because of the overwhelming success of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
“[The developer is] positively planning on doing extra when it comes to animation,” Nowakowski says (by way of Gizmodo). “Expect to see extra for positive, however that is so far as I can go proper now.” While this is not lots to go off, it is nonetheless nice to listen to that CDPR is considering how you can strategy extra animation.
However, like in previous monetary earnings calls, the discussions have been largely centred round upcoming initiatives, The Witcher 4 (codenamed “Polaris”) and Cyberpunk 2 (codenamed “Orion”). These are two huge developments which might be fairly rightly taking over numerous sources and focus. In an investor’s presentation, Nowakowski outlined an intention for half the event staff from the US and Poland to be engaged on Cyberpunk 2 by late 2024.
A brand new animated collection most likely would not take up an excessive amount of time as CDPR will seemingly take a supervisory function for any challenge undertaken. For Edgerunners Studio Trigger did a lot of the heavy lifting when it got here to storyboarding and animating the brief present. But it nonetheless is smart for The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 to be the precedence above all else.
Edgerunners launched across the identical time as a serious Cyberpunk 2077 replace, which was an excellent technique for convincing gamers to present this once-messy recreation one other go. If CDPR has one other tear-jerking anime within the pipeline, it is seemingly it’s going to hold it cooking till it is able to generate hype for an imminent launch.
The anime was so profitable, in reality, that it pushed CDPR to “the perfect third quarter in our complete historical past,” in line with the chief monetary officer, Piort Nielubowicz. “With consolidated revenues at zł246 million ($54.3 million), largely owing to sturdy gross sales of Cyberpunk. The group posted zł99 million ($21.8 million) in web revenue.”
This does not actually come as a shock. The 10-episode present was completely incredible, and regardless of its heartbreaking ending, I’ve rewatched it a superb few occasions. If the intention of this anime was to showcase all of the the explanation why Night City might be one of many coolest videogame settings then it handed with flying colors.
