CD Projekt Red Reports Third-Best Year of Net Profit without Releasing Any New Games

It's quite miraculous how they've turned Cyberpunk 2077 around to be one of the best open world games on the market. And Phantom Liberty was absolutely sublime 👌🏻 Just goes to show that if you don't shutter your studio and just fix your mess-of-a-game, it can be good and make money. No Man's Sky another wonderful example.

If anything Witcher 4 might hinder profits

Elsewhere they've also got breakdowns of platform splits and physical media versus digital media.

The majority of their sales for The Witcher are on PC (43%) followed by playstation (38%) in 2024. You can see the absolute collapse of Xbox - they had 23% of Witcher 3 sales in 2015 and only 8% by 2024.

When the Witcher 3 launched in 2015, 21% of it's consoles sales were digital. When Cyberpunk launched in 2020, 75% of it's consoles sales were digital.

Three caveats to the last one 1) It was 2020, so COVID, way less people going to stores 2) This doesn't count people who bought second hand copies 3) Console sales were terrible generally at launch because the game ran terribly

Not surprised at all. Bought it for my steam deck as I am away for a few months. But already have it on PS. And already rebought Witcher 3 for similar reasons. Some games for me are annually replayable.

@Balie3000 The difference between 2077 and No Man's Sky as opposed to most of the other dreck that releases broken is that these games had genuine hype and excitement behind them and thus people were willing to give them another chance.

Most crap games do not get a second chance no matter how much time and effort you pump into them.

@heavyartillery56 How? This is an awful take.

I just got platinum for Cyperpunk the other weekend, and yeah the game is a 10/10, really glad I never got it in the first year because of all the bugs. Just imagine how well the game could of done if they did not rush it out of the door. Witcher 4 is more than likely going to be GOTY when it comes out.

I mean it's the only game that's close to scratching that GTAVI itch. My V bought a Quadra yesterday feels so good.

@Herculean GTAV has first person btw. I'm fine with CP2077 being 1st but would've been cool to have 3rd too so we can see our V's attire. Personally no game is as immersive as Rockstar's games though.

Currently playing Cyberpunk, probably about two thirds of the way through and have completed the DLC. I think its fantastic, would give it 10/10. Night City must be one of the best environments in a game ever.

Not great news, IMO. One lesson that CDPR could take away from the whole Cyberpunk 2077 affair is (a) invest in marketing; (b) release minimum viable product, make loads of cash in pre-orders and on Day 1; (c) fix it later, benefit from even more positive coverage about the redemption arc.
I'm not saying that the game isn't great now or that they haven't done an amazing job in fixing it post launch - I've not played it yet.
To quote George W Bush: "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." Hopefully gamers will have learned their lesson and be far more sceptical of Witcher 4, etc, and wait for reviews, but I doubt it.

It’s really something that they really aren’t going to add a Pro Patch for Cyberpunk 2077 👀

My opinion, but I don’t see gta6 topping cyberpunk for me. CP2077 2.0 and phantom liberty are one of my all time favorite game experiences. And that’s from someone who is very burnt out on massive games.

honestly i would love second DLC i would buy it now.