The Witcher 3's 'One More Patch' Delayed to 2026, CD Projekt Confirms

CD Projekt has delayed a planned spot for The Witcher 3 that was acceptable to adhd cross-platform mod enactment crossed PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S aboriginal this year.

The workplace had announced the spot for aboriginal successful 2025 arsenic portion of the celebrations of The Witcher 3’s 10th anniversary. “For the archetypal time, creating, sharing, and enjoying mods for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt volition beryllium easier and much accessible than ever,” CD Projekt said astatine the time.

However, successful a caller update, CD Projekt said the spot had shifted to 2026, with nary steadfast merchandise model mentioned. “We apologize for the hold and volition stock much details arsenic we get person to the release,” CD Projekt said. “Thank you for your patience!”

CD Projekt had described the update arsenic “one much patch” for The Witcher 3, which remains hugely fashionable and maintains a steadfast fig of players adjacent now, a decennary aft launch.

The Witcher 3 is present up to an unthinkable 60 cardinal copies sold, a fig that includes income of the basal crippled and the GOTY version, but excludes expansions sold separately. It’s adjacent to overtaking the latest income fig we person for Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In a June 2023 interrogation with IGN, Bethesda improvement main Todd Howard said Skyrim had sold implicit 60 cardinal copies. So, we present person a imaginable necktie for the best-selling role-playing crippled of each time.

Here’s Adam Badowski, associated CEO of CD Projekt, connected The Witcher 3 income milestone:

Without a doubt, the 3rd portion of Geralt’s adventures marks a pivotal constituent successful our history. The crippled earned hundreds of awards and solidified our studio’s standing, but much importantly, it brought untold hours of adventures and emotions to millions of games the satellite over. I americium arrogant to denote that since its merchandise The Witcher 3 has sold implicit 60 cardinal copies, securing a spot among the bestselling video games successful each history, and motivating america to transportation connected with intensive enactment connected the adjacent trilogy acceptable successful this universe.

That’s a notation to The Witcher 4, which is presently successful afloat accumulation but won’t beryllium retired until 2027 astatine the earliest.

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