The Witcher: RotWW Cancellation Confirmed

[GameBanshee News]

GameBanshee has learned from an inside industry contact that The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf has indeed been cancelled.

Details are sketchy, but the following facts have been confirmed: after the release of The Witcher, CD Projekt Red took the financial obligation of starting 3 projects simultaneously, a console port of The Witcher, and two more titles based on The Witcher intellectual property, one of which was The Witcher 2.

As the financial crisis hit, the studio was affected as well, finding itself incapable of managing all three projects and forced to lay off a significant portion of its staff. The third Witcher IP project was cancelled, and its entire crew was let go or left of their own volition. A second round of layoffs followed as The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf was cancelled, including around two dozen people losing their jobs yesterday.

All funds and manpower have been redirected to a single project, The Witcher 2, which will be a multi-platform title for PC and consoles.

[Brother None]

And here was my reaction when being told:



My estimation is that CDP:Red is not in trouble yet, but they leaked quite a bit of talent that worked on the Witcher in their rounds of layoffs. They need to focus on TW2, and it needs to be a hit.

[Ronan]

I hope the game will be good so that the company can keep in business. If not too many important people have left then I expect the game to be at least good enough to be bought.

[Nightmare]

Too bad about the layoffs, I really enjoyed The Witcher. Hopefully they can keep up the quality in the second one.

[drazac]

This is indeed sad... i'll pray for TW2 to be an success!!

[Charnel]

Any idea when CD Projekt plans to officially confirm the cancellation of the console version of The Witcher?

[Brother None]

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Originally Posted by Charnel Any idea when CD Projekt plans to officially confirm the cancellation of the console version of The Witcher?

No.

But I'm thinking sooner rather than later.