It could be a whole console generation before this project reaches gamers.

In October, CD Projekt RED (shortened to CDP from now on) announced that they had four new projects. Project Hadar will be an all-new IP, Project Canis, and Project Sirius are tied to The Witcher franchise, and there’s Project Orion, which would be a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 (not the Phantom Liberty add-on!). These are all in early development, and Project Orion we wrote about, which CDP’s newly opened Boston studio will be working on (the job posting openly highlighted it).

Cyberpunk 2077 was announced in 2012 before CDP started to work on The Witcher 3. It reportedly didn’t even begin development until 2016, so it wasn’t on the table until the final add-on for The Witcher 3 was released. In 2018, it was again hinted at after years of silence from the Polish company, and then in 2019, the release date was finally announced, which slipped from April 2020 to September, November, and then December 2020. Eight years. That is a lot. However, Project Orion could beat that.

When CDP announced, it stressed that development was still in its early stages. An RPG of this size could certainly take 2-5 years, but it could be more, as the Poles have dropped their in-house engine and have adopted Unreal Engine 5 from Epic Games instead of REDengine. The company has five projects in the pipeline, and there’s a good chance The Witcher 4 will be the first to be released. The studio started putting it together in 2021, but we don’t think it will be released before 2025. If they release one project a year, Project Orion might not come out until 2028, and that’s before we’ve factored in the new IP.

So the bottom line is that CDP may be holding too many marshmallows to the fire at once, which could hurt all of their products.

Source: GameRant