{"id":1304359,"date":"2025-08-28T19:32:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/FoD8fF3BNZAf7APib995uP"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:32:49","slug":"the-witcher-4-and-cyberpunk-2-development-teams-continue-to-grow-as-cd-projekts-headcount-expands-to-nearly-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-witcher-4-and-cyberpunk-2-development-teams-continue-to-grow-as-cd-projekts-headcount-expands-to-nearly-800\/","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 development teams continue to grow as CD Projekt’s headcount expands to nearly 800"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Witcher 4<\/a> and Cyberpunk 2 are still a long way off, but CD Projekt is slowly but surely ramping things up. The company said in its H1 financial report today that the development teams for both game have continued to expand, and that further “gradual growth” is expected by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

A chart released as part of the H1 report indicates that The Witcher 4, which had 422 people working on it as of April 30, was up to 444 people at the end of July; Cyberpunk 2 has seen comparable growth, going from 96 people at the end of April to 116 people as of July 31.<\/p>\n

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For some fun random comparison, The Witcher 3’s internal development team had around 240 people<\/a> on it, while about 400 people<\/a> were banging away on Cyberpunk 2077 a half-year before it was released.<\/p>\n

All of CD Projekt’s teams have grown, in fact, including those working on the Witcher spinoff codenamed Sirius<\/a> and the even more mysterious Hadar<\/a>, which is an entirely new thing.<\/p>\n

“Our recruitment efforts have significantly sped up over the last three months and as a result the total number of talented developers working across our projects has grown by 10% reaching almost 800 people,” CD Projekt joint-CEO Micha\u0142 Nowakowski said in an investors presentation. “This growth was primarily driven by our two largest development teams.<\/p>\n

“The Witcher 4 team grew to over 440 developers while the Cyberpunk 2 project which transitioned into pre-production recently in Q2 as you may remember added 20 new team members. We anticipate further gradual growth in our total developer headcount by the end of the year, particularly for the teams working on projects in the most advanced stages of production.”<\/p>\n

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