CD Projekt Red appears to beryllium ramping up its improvement capabilities successful a large mode arsenic it prepares for Cyberpunk 2077's sequel, codenamed Orion, arsenic it looks to make a caller workplace and enactment hundreds of unit connected the project.

Speaking during an investors' call aft announcing Orion alongside respective Witcher games, CD Projekt Red CFO Piotr Nielubowicz said helium expects 350 to 500 developers volition beryllium indispensable to make the game.

It's besides creating a marque new, chiefly Boston-based workplace for Orion, which volition harvester with its existent Vancouver bureau and beryllium known arsenic CD Projekt Red North America.

Though endowment from its Polish studios volition besides beryllium assisting with the crippled (including Cyberpunk 2077's pb quest decorator Paweł Sasko, who is moving to Boston for it), the Vancouver workplace lone had astir 12 squad members erstwhile it was acquired by CD Projekt Red past year. It truthful appears the institution needs to prosecute a fewer 100 caller unit to deed the 350 to 500 quota, and it's already advertizing dozens of positions connected its website.

"The North American workplace volition dwell of teams moving from Boston and the squad moving from Vancouver," Nielubowicz said, and "the task volition besides beryllium supported by developers from Poland."

He continued: "As for the full headcount required for specified a production, I judge the champion notation is Cyberpunk 2077, our astir caller merchandise and a bully notation constituent erstwhile reasoning astir improvement headcount and aboriginal projects of this scale. I deliberation it’s harmless to presume that betwixt 350 and 500 developers should beryllium required."

Given that improvement hasn't begun yet, CD Projekt Red didn't accidental excessively overmuch astir Orion, but promised it'll beryllium "the adjacent Cyberpunk crippled that volition afloat unleash the imaginable that this beingness offers".

The workplace surely has a engaged fewer years connected its hands, arsenic a caller Witcher trilogy was announced alongside a Witcher beingness crippled from CD Projekt Red's The Molasses Flood and another "full-fledged" Witcher rubric from a mysterious 3rd enactment studio.

The workplace is inactive moving connected Cyberpunk 2077's agelong awaited archetypal expansion, Phantom Liberty, successful the meantime. It's expected to beryllium released adjacent year, portion the adjacent Witcher crippled could inactive beryllium years away.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll speech astir The Witcher each day.