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by Dan Nicolae Alexa |
14th February 2008 |
The Witcher |
CD Projekt, the Polish company behind last year's surprisingly good RPG
The Witcher, announced that the game sold more than 600,000 copies in
less than 3 months.
Adam Kiciński, CD Projekt RED Joint CEO,
commented on the sales results: "We are very happy with The
Witcher’s performance to date. Our goal was — and still is —
to reach one million copies sold during the first year. 600,000 games sold in
just three months brings us much closer to this ambitious goal. It’s a
great success for us, made all the more impressive by the fact that The Witcher
was created by a completely new team and it is our debut both as a game
developer and in bringing our products to a global audience. The task was not
easy, as The Witcher brand was completely unknown in many markets, and it was
released in a busy season alongside franchises that have been on the market for
many years. Yet, I can confidently say that we’ve passed this trial
victoriously. Actually, only now- as we’ve conquered many of the
initial barriers- can we spread our wings, which, of course, we intend
to do. Such success wouldn’t be possible without our publishers’
support- Atari, Noviy Disk and the publishing branch of CD Projekt. They
all put a lot of work into the game’s promotion in individual markets."
CD Projeckt's first and most important PC title received numerous awards (no less than 48!), including IGN's "PC
RPG of the Year" and GameSpot's "Readers’ Choice Winner – Best RPG" (full list here).
The Witcher is also among the highest-rated games launched last year
and one of the highest-rated new IPs launched lately, with the score on
Metacritic reaching 9.4 out of 10.
Adam Kiciński, from the Warsaw, Poland-based developer, also hinted that the franchise has a future, and not just any future: "Our plans include
continuous game support, the release of the powerful D’jinni module
editor, the continued release of game updates and patches, and in late spring
gamers can expect a pretty big surprise, which will be revealed at a press
conference really soon – February 18th!
We are still working on making the game better and we will actively support our
fan community, which is getting bigger and bigger. Unfortunately I can’t
reveal anything further at this time, but I assure you that we won’t rest on our
laurels and we have very promising plans for the future. We
set our standards very high with The Witcher and we surely don’t want to
lower them in the future."
This
can only mean two things: either the studio has an expansion pack
planned for their first title (with another option being downloadable
content), or a full-fledged sequel is on it's way. I'd personally go
with an expansion-pack at best (since it's too early to announce a
sequel for a game of that size), but who knows? Selling 600,000 copies
in less than 3 months is definitely a performance for a game that is
totally new and has no multiplayer. We'll keep you posted.
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