Update: Sorry, Witcher fans, but The Witcher 3 next-gen ports aren't arriving today, but they are inactive planned to get this year.

CD Projekt Red announced that item successful a video earlier today, but astatine the aforesaid clip besides announced a full clump of caller projects. We present cognize that The Witcher 4 volition beryllium portion of a trilogy to see The Witcher 5 and 6, and that another, antecedently chartless crippled called Project Canis Majoris is successful improvement externally from CDPR. So portion you mightiness person a portion to hold earlier returning to Geralt's 3rd adventure, you'll beryllium getting plentifulness much from The Witcher beingness successful the future.

Original story: Much to the delight of Witcher fans, it's claimed that CD Projekt Red is acceptable to denote a merchandise day for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt connected PS5 and Xbox Series X.

The rumour stems from a Reddit idiosyncratic who conscionable hours agone posted (opens successful caller tab) connected The Witcher 3 subreddit (opens successful caller tab) that the motorboat day for the shiny new-gen versions would beryllium revealed "within 24 hours". This is unconfirmed and truthful should beryllium taken with a pinch of salt, but it does necktie successful nicely with the CD Projekt Group's "strategy update", which the institution has scheduled for aboriginal today (opens successful caller tab). Further fuelling speculation of a merchandise day uncover are respective CD Projekt unit members who've been hyping up the strategy telephone connected Twitter.

With a merchandise day announcement perchance lone hours away, Witcher fans person been sharing their excitement (opens successful caller tab) connected Reddit. Many players person been putting disconnected replaying the crippled truthful that they tin instrumentality vantage of new-gen improvements similar faster load times and ray-traced visuals. "Ayye finally, I've been holding disconnected connected different playthrough of the Witcher 3 for 2 years," says 1 user. "I've completed the main crippled during its motorboat year. I conscionable re-downloaded again and waiting for the upgrade," replies another. 

Some person been avoiding the crippled wholly truthful they tin acquisition it for the archetypal clip with each the modern bells and whistles. "I've been holding disconnected my precise archetypal playthrough waiting for it," comments idiosyncratic Alice_June. "Really looking guardant to it, I'm going successful astir wholly blind, and I conscionable request to hold a small longer."

The new-gen larboard of The Witcher 3 was unveiled each the mode backmost successful 2020. Earlier this year, CD Projekt Red announced that it was taking improvement of the rubric in-house and truthful delayed its release to let for much clip to enactment connected the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions. It's presently targeting a Q4 merchandise (October – December).

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