CD Projket Red unveils Cyberpunk 2077 sales figures. From miserable to unavoidable, this success story is worth hundreds of millions.
Who remembers in 2020 when Cyberpunk 2077 created a wave of hate and discontent? The latest-gen consoles had barely been released when one of the most anticipated games on these platforms began to be publicly lynched, causing a wave of refunds. Those days are long behind the game now, as it unveils nothing short of spectacular sales figures.
CD Projekt Red has just shared its more than satisfactory financial results for its new Cyberpunk franchise. The title, which has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide (figures are as of October 2023), has managed the feat of exceeding 3 billion Zloty, the Polish currency. This equates to more than $750 million in revenue (€700 million). Not bad for a game whose launch was one of the most catastrophic in history.
On the chart shared by the studio, the figures include sales of Cyberpunk 2077 and its expansion Phantom Liberty, released at the end of last year. We can see that it is precisely a period when sales have recovered well, after a period of low in 2021, that had to be overcome. To improve its situation, the developers had set about releasing substantial and regular patches.
The main reason this strategy worked was because Cyberpunk 2077 has always been a great game. Revolutionizing role-playing games on its scale, it was able to establish itself within the PC ecosystem before conquering consoles. We can’t say it enough, but CD Projekt’s mistake was to release its title on old machines, dispersing talent on platforms not optimized for the game’s performance. Once this mistake was fixed, all the studio had to do was continue to deliver the quality work we know it for, and the results were there.
News about The Witcher and its sequel
Now it’s time for the future. The studio shares the distribution of its teams on the various projects in progress. We can see that the one that requires the most resources is Project Polaris, the 4th opus of The Witcher saga, which promises us new adventures around a new hero. More than 64% of CD Projekt is dedicated to its development, so we should have new ones soon.
Let’s not forget that the Polish studio is also working on related projects, such as Project Sirius which will be a spin-off of The Witcher. The sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 has 47 developers. The conclusion is that Project Orion is still in its infancy. The new Hadar license is still on the way, as well as the remake of The Witcher and other projects.