Excellent news on a Wednesday! Cyberpunk 2077‘s sequel has formally entered the pre-production stage of improvement, CD Projekt has confirmed. The sport additionally appears to be like to have ditched its codename, Venture Orion, as an alternative now being referred to solely as Cyberpunk 2.
This information was introduced as a part of the studio’s newest monetary outcomes presentation, with the Cyberpunk sequel staff being congratulated for hitting this milestone as CD Projekt prepares to launch the primary recreation within the collection on Nintendo Swap 2.
“A number of weeks in the past the CD Projekt Crimson staff answerable for the following massive recreation set within the Cyberpunk universe accomplished the undertaking’s conceptual section,” CD Projekt wrote in a release about these outcomes, “Because of this, Cyberpunk 2 – beforehand recognized below the codename Venture Orion – has progressed to preproduction.”
Trying out the full presentation, we will see that as of April 30 this yr, the variety of devs at CDPR engaged on Cyberpunk 2 is now at 96, up from 84 as of February this yr. It is a drop within the bucket in comparison with the 422 listed as engaged on the closer-to-completion Witcher 4 as of that April date, nevertheless it’s nonetheless the studio’s second biggest-staffed ongoing undertaking. That is placing apart the 131 devs within the “shared providers” sector that handles normal stuff like localisation and high quality assurance throughout a number of video games.
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