What happened? Cyberpunk 2077 could be considered a failure in the eyes of many consumers, but it still helped CD Projekt achieve the company’s best financial results. Sales revenue was more than double compared to 2015, the same year the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, CD Projekt’s preliminary numbers for 2020 included sales revenue of $ 562 million, four times more than the previous year. This is an all-time high for the Polish company, more than two and a half times the previous record: $ 210 million in 2015, most of it from the launch of the third Witcher game.
It was also a record year for net profits. The $ 303 million tripled the previous record of $ 89.8 million – set in 2015. The company’s final results for 2020 are announced on April 22.
The incredible hype surrounding Cyberpunk 2077, the biggest release of CD Projekt from The Witcher 3, saw him secure 8 million pre-orders. It has also become the best-selling PC game of all time.
With plans for the ambitious “reconsidered” GTA V Online multiplayer element and the restructuring of CD Projekt Red to develop several AAA games simultaneously, it was beginning to appear that Cyberpunk 2077 would be quietly abandoned by its developer, but joint CEO Adam Kiciński recently confirmed that this is far from the case.
“I don’t see an option to make Cyberpunk 2077 available. We are convinced that we can bring the game to such a state that we can be proud of it and therefore sell it successfully for years to come,” he said. .