The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 developers’ shares collapse after the presentation of a new development strategy for investors

Last evening the company CD Projekt presented a new development strategy for the studio CD Projekt… In particular, the CEO Adam Kichinsky said that the developers are planning to develop franchises “Witcher“and Cyberpunk 2077 in parallel, and that developers will now add online components to almost all of their major games.

At the same time, Kichinsky actually canceled a standalone AAA multiplayer game in the Cyberpunk 2077 universewithout giving a clear answer to the question of whether there will now be at least some online component in last year’s role-playing project.

Against the backdrop of all this news, CD Projekt shares showed a sharp drop today, dropping immediately by thirteen%… The company’s market capitalization has rolled back to the 2019 level.

Polish media writes that shareholders are disappointed by the lack of major improvements in the PS4 version of Cyberpunk 2077, which would allow the game to return to the digital store. PlayStation Store… The decline in interest in the RPG after the release suggests that it will not be able to surpass the forecast of the sales experts for the first year, and therefore the level of profit of CD Projekt. Some investors expected the game to sell 30 million copies by the second half of 2023.

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