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Games Inbox: When will The Witcher 4 be released?


Geralt Of Rivia in The Witcher 3

The Witcher will return (CD Projekt)

The Wednesday letters page is concerned about Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s influence on Mass Effect 4, as a reader worries GTA 6 Trailer 2 won’t be this year.

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The wait begins
So if The Witcher 4 is only entering full production now, when does that mean it will come out? High-end games nowadays take longer than five years but I’m not clear whether the pre-production counts as part of that? I know there’s no point being impatient at this point, because it’s clearly going to be a long time, but it really is mindboggling how long it takes to make a video game nowadays.

The Witcher 3 will be 10 years old next year and while that makes me feel very old myself, I do hope that will be the sign for the first trailer to be released. I never really like Cyberpunk 2077, since I prefer fantasy to sci-fi, and kind of resent CD Projekt spending the last several years making and fixing it, so it feels like The Witcher 4 is very overdue to me.

I’m curious to play the remake of The Witcher 1 in the meantime though, as I’ve never played it before. I hear it’s nowhere as good but I’m curious to see how much it might be improved on new formats.
Xane

GC: You would assume at least three years more till it’s out, so maybe late 2027 at the very earliest. But it could easily be two or more years later than that. Some kinds of trailer is possible next year, but it’d almost certainly only be pre-rendered.

Add it to the list
I know it’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to problems with Trump but everything around these tariffs sounds both stupid and incredibly worrying. We can’t suddenly switch to streaming, there isn’t the infrastructure for it, and it will always be inferior to playing a game locally, whether you get an unexpected broadband outage or not.

It could really mess up Nintendo’s plans too and I’m already thinking the reader that said they might be delaying a Switch 2 reveal because of it may be right. What would be even worse for the industry is if Trump tries to give Xbox a free pass because Microsoft are American, even though the hardware’s still made in China.

That is going to cause so much resentment and politics within the industry I don’t even know what the end result would be. I bet it’s nothing good though.
Candle

Last minute update
Sony suddenly changing the sales of the PlayStation 2 just as the Switch gets close is so transparent it’s hilarious. It’s so obvious what they’re doing, but what is the point? Come to think of it I don’t remember the PlayStation 2 being the best-selling console being used as a point of trivia anywhere but on games websites or forums – it is not a know fact anywhere …read more

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