The Witcher 3 may be getting a big new expansion almost 12 years after launch, but you shouldn’t expect that to be the norm for the series going forward. From Witcher 4 on, CDPR will focus on full games instead of developing expansions, the studio said.
In the Q&A section of CD Projekt Red’s latest earnings call, as reported by Games Radar, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski said that getting the next trilogy out on schedule will be the studio’s priority after Witcher 4. CDPR optimistically plans to release the full trilogy of Witcher 4, 5, and 6 within six years, which is a tight timeline even without taking time to release expansions.
“The plans are pretty ambitious–specifically, it’s to release three Witcher games within a six-year period,” Nowakowski said. “It would be difficult, to be very honest, for us to add an expansion to the upcoming trilogy. This is where we are here and now with this particular issue.”
This is a major departure from what we’ve seen from the Witcher series in the past–The Witcher 3 received two major expansions in the years following release, with one more titled Songs of the Past now on the way over a decade later.
Given CDPR was specific about calling Songs of the Past an expansion rather than a DLC–classing the latter as a smaller content update generally released for free–there may be hope that the next Witcher trilogy will still get some kind of post-launch content.
Songs of the Past will release in 2027, meaning that we’re not likely to see The Witcher 4 until at least 2028–but between the new expansion and the upcoming trilogy, it’s a great time to be a Witcher fan.
