CD Projekt Red is gearing up for a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, codenamed Orion, and has significantly increased its development capabilities as it creates a new studio and looks to have hundreds of staff working on the project. And it seems.
speak inside call for investors After announcing Orion along with several Witcher games, CD Projekt Red CFO Piotr Nielubowicz said he expected 350 to 500 developers to create the game.
We are also creating an entirely new studio, primarily based in Boston, for Orion, which will be merged with our current Vancouver office and known as CD Projekt Red North America.
Polish studio talent will also help the game, although (including) Lead quest designer for Cyberpunk 2077 Paweł Sasko, he moved to Boston for it), when it was acquired by CD Projekt Red last year, the Vancouver studio had only about a dozen team members. So it looks like the company needs to hire hundreds of new staff to hit his quota of 500 from his 350 and has already advertised dozens of positions. its website.
“The North American studio will consist of a team in Boston and a team in Vancouver,” Nielubowicz said, adding that “the project will also be supported by Polish developers.”
He continues: Suppose from 350 he needs 500 developers. “
CD Projekt Red didn’t say too much about Orion, given that development has yet to begin, but promised it would be “the next cyberpunk game that fully unlocks the possibilities this universe has to offer.”
The studio has certainly had a busy few years as a new Witcher trilogy was announced, along with CD Projekt Red’s The Molasses Flood’s Witcher universe game and another “real” Witcher title from a mysterious third-party studio. I’m here.
Meanwhile, the studio is working on Cyberpunk 2077’s highly anticipated first expansion, Phantom Liberty. It’s set to release next year, but the next Witcher game could still be years away.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He talks about witchers all day long.
