'A Great Foundation for Our Upcoming Projects in This Universe' — CD Projekt Hails Cyberpunk 2077 as It Hits an Incredible 40 Million Copies Sold

CD Projekt has hailed the occurrence of Cyberpunk 2077, announcing it has present deed the 40 cardinal copies sold mark. That’s up 5 cardinal copies from the past clip the developer announced Cyberpunk 2077 sales, backmost successful November erstwhile it deed 35 million.

It’s besides 1 of the astir melodramatic comebacks successful video crippled history. Cyberpunk 2077 suffered a disastrous motorboat backmost successful 2020, with CD Projekt accused of misleading consumers with its pre-release selling materials. The crippled came retired successful specified a unspeakable state, peculiarly connected consoles, that Sony pulled it from the PlayStation Store.

CD Projekt spent years moving to amended Cyberpunk 2077, rebuilding spot with its fans. While astir see the workplace to person been palmy successful that, co-CEO Michał Nowakowski precocious said helium thought CD Projekt had yet to implicit a "full redemption arc."

"40 cardinal copies sold shows the incredible, lasting spot of Cyberpunk 2077 and is simply a testament to what CD Projekt does champion — creating high-quality, immersive stories that support players returning for years,” Nowakowski said successful a societal media station published connected July 3. “It's a large instauration for our upcoming projects successful this universe, including the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 anime arriving this fall.”

That’s not conscionable a motion to the hotly anticipated Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, but to Cyberpunk 2, which 163 radical were moving connected arsenic of the extremity of April. While we cognize small astir Cyberpunk 2, Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith teased immoderate details erstwhile helium was asked astir the scope of his engagement with what was past known arsenic Project Orion, backmost astatine the Digital Dragons 2025 conference.

Pondsmith admitted helium wasn’t arsenic progressive this clip around, but said helium had reviewed scripts and had been to CD Projekt to cheque retired the ongoing work. “Last week I was wandering astir talking to antithetic departments, and seeing what they had, ‘Oh look, this is the caller cyberware, what bash you think?’ ‘Oh yeah, that’s beauteous good, that works here.’"

Pondsmith added that the sequel features a marque caller metropolis successful summation to the Night City we cognize from Cyberpunk 2077. Pondsmith described this caller metropolis arsenic “like Chicago gone wrong.”

“I spent a batch of clip talking to 1 of the situation guys, and helium was explaining however the caller spot successful Orion, due to the fact that there’s different metropolis we sojourn — I’m not telling you immoderate much than that but there’s different metropolis we visit. And Night City is inactive there. But I retrieve looking astatine it and going, yea I recognize the consciousness you’re going for this, and this truly does work. And it doesn’t consciousness similar Blade Runner, it feels much similar Chicago gone wrong. I said, ‘Yeah, I tin spot this working.'”

In September past year, speaking with IGN portion promoting his movie Good Fortune, Keanu Reeves said that helium wanted to beryllium portion of the Cyberpunk sequel. “Absolutely. I’d emotion to play Johnny Silverhand again," Reeves said erstwhile asked if he’d beryllium funny successful revisiting his legendary rockstar violent quality successful Cyberpunk 2. Pondsmith aboriginal said he'd worked retired a mode to marque it marque sense, and has told the much-loved actor: “contact me.”

It sounds similar we'll person to hold immoderate clip to find out. CD Projekt is of people focusing connected The Witcher 4, and Nowakowski has suggested Cyberpunk 2 won’t beryllium retired until astatine slightest 2030.

While Cyberpunk 2077 is simply a immense success, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is good up of it with a whopping 65 cardinal sold. It's getting a marque caller enlargement adjacent year.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].