CD Projekt Red has one of the most highly anticipated and ambitious project slates in video game history, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s Songs of the Past and The Witcher 4 contribute greatly to that prestige on their own. The official announcement of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s new expansion is historic, too, seeing as there are not many single-player action-RPGs receiving such an immense amount of new content more than a decade after they originally released.
If Songs of the Past manages to meet or exceed expectations players will have for it as a third expansion, especially with the Herculean task it has of following Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s legacy will be incomparable. Unfortunately, it seems as if CD Projekt Red will be clipping The Witcher 4’s wings before it’s able to soar to the same immeasurable heights.
As per GamesRadar, CD Projekt Red CEO Michał Nowakowski addressed the possibility of the upcoming Witcher saga, including The Witcher 4, having any expansions during the studio’s latest earnings call. According to Nowakowski, “it would be difficult, to be very honest, for us to add an expansion to the upcoming trilogy” because of CD Projekt Red’s ambitious pipeline plans to “release three Witcher games within a six-year period.”
There are pros and cons to this approach, and fans themselves are certainly divided. On the one hand, it is disappointing to hear that we probably won’t be receiving any Witcher 4 expansions due to how unbelievably phenomenal The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine are. But, on the other hand, it would be a refreshing change of pace to have The Witcher 4 launch and be able to expect a new Witcher installment to release soon thereafter, as opposed to having to wait another decade or more.
User The Witcher 4 News on Twitter/X believes there needs to be an expansion or two in The Witcher 4’s future: “Too early to talk about it, but I really hope they change their minds. This game needs additional content and expansions at any cost.” Meanwhile, many fans are completely understanding of there not being any current plans for The Witcher 4 getting an expansion due to CD Projekt Red having admitted to wanting three games released within a six-year span.
User Taraque Talukder makes an interesting note about how CD Projekt Red developing a new Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansion now suggests that there is no telling if or when we might get a Witcher 4 expansion. Perhaps we won’t get one during this six-year period, allowing CD Projekt Red to deliver the games it has planned and/or in development, and then the studio could revisit The Witcher 4 afterward.
The Witcher 4 is currently in development.
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