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CD PROJEKT Joint CEO Addresses Witcher Plans Before Gamescom
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CD PROJEKT published a video message from joint CEO Michał Nowakowski on its YouTube channel, titled ‘Important message from Joint CEO Michał Nowakowski.’ The message went up on the CD PROJEKT RED IR channel and was posted to the company’s news page under the heading “Important update from Michał Nowakowski, Joint CEO of CD PROJEKT RED.”
The address lands at the front edge of a packed gamescom week for the Warsaw studio. New information on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Songs of the Past, the expansion CD PROJEKT RED announced in May 2026, is due during Opening Night Live on August 25, 2026, with guided presentations running at the company’s booth through August 30, 2026, according to the CD PROJEKT RED Press Center.
A Franchise Carrying the Publish Calendar
The video arrives three months after CD PROJEKT made Songs of the Past official. The expansion, co-developed with Fool’s Theory, returns players to Geralt of Rivia and is set to launch in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, per the May 27, 2026 announcement. When the studio wrapped up its first quarter a day later, Nowakowski called it a trip down memory lane with Geralt ‘before we pass the baton to Ciri in the upcoming The Witcher 4.’
That project sits on top of a franchise with unusual commercial endurance. The Witcher 3 passed 65 million cumulative copies sold in the first quarter of 2026, eleven years after its 2015 release. Across the trilogy, the figure stands above 85 million, alongside 35 million copies of Cyberpunk 2077 and 10 million of its Phantom Liberty expansion, the company said in its full-year 2025 summary.
The Numbers Behind the Showcase Week
- 191 million PLN: CD PROJEKT Group revenue in Q1 2026, up 6% year over year, with 106 million PLN in consolidated net earnings.
- 867 million PLN: full-year 2025 sales revenue, up 9%, with 595 million PLN in net profit, the Group’s second-best year by earnings.
- 513 million PLN: the Group’s 2025 investment in future releases, concentrated on The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2.
- 1.4 billion PLN: cash reserves at the end of March 2026, per the Q1 report.
- 65 million: cumulative Witcher 3 copies sold as of Q1 2026.
The spending line matters for reading the showcase calendar. CD PROJEKT is funding parallel AAA production, The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2, and early work on its proprietary Hadar IP, out of operating cash flow, and it sold GOG for 90.7 million PLN in December 2025 to concentrate resources on development. A bridging release like Songs of the Past extends the revenue life of an 11-year-old catalogue title while the new trilogy remains in production. In the same spirit, the studio has kept pushing its franchises beyond games: the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 anime premieres on Netflix on October 20, 2026, and the Cyberpunk Trading Card Game raised 28 million dollars on Kickstarter, the most-funded game campaign in the platform’s history.
What the Week Holds for CD PROJEKT RED
The near-term schedule is fixed. Opening Night Live, hosted by Geoff Keighley, runs August 25, 2026, and carries the first new look at Songs of the Past since its announcement. Guided presentations of the expansion follow at the CD PROJEKT RED booth: August 26 through August 28, 2026 in the gamescom business area, and through August 30, 2026 in the entertainment area, per the press center. The company had previously said more detail on the expansion would arrive in late summer 2026, which this week delivers.
Beyond Cologne, the dated markers are the October 20, 2026 Netflix premiere of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 and the 2027 launch of Songs of the Past itself. The Witcher 4, which s5 describes only as ‘upcoming,’ has no release date in any of the company’s cited announcements.
