CD Projekt, the developer behind 2007’s hugely popular RPG, The Witcher, has been hard at work over the past year on a console port of the game. Unlike most ports, the console version of The Witcher was never going to be a simple copy past version of the PC original, and was being redesigned from the ground up, or “pixel by pixel” as CD Projekt put it.<\/p>\n
It has recently been confirmed that the project has been put on hold.<\/p>\n
CD Project wrote a letter publicly explaining why the game has been put on hold.<\/p>\n
“It is sad that we cannot talk with WSG in normal business way, but communicate through media. It is absolutely not our style of making business, and we answer here as we feel forced to do this to clarify the unclear information: 1. All payments were done on time according to milestone plan. 2. Truth is that payments were later than originally planned but this was solely due to delays in production. The delays were growing in theproject due to WSG continued to miss the deadlines. 3. Delays and risks of further development by WSG were unacceptable by CD Projekt (this happened even though CDProjekt RED was constantly increasing main team involvement to help in the production). The most important fact is that development process didn’t make planned release date possible and moreover propositions of the new release date were changing few times. Besides the schedule, technical incapability created a risk of missing planned quality which is absolutely unacceptable. And this brought an end in our cooperation with WSG. 4. Currently the works are on hold. We are evaluating all possible options to continue the production. Michal Kicinski Joint CEO CD Projekt Group”<\/em><\/p>\n While Atari are Publishing The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf, Widescreen Games is a co-developer, and it seems that it was unable to fulfill its contractual obligations in terms of financing the project.<\/p>\n While the game is officially suspended at the moment, we will be surprised if this is the end of the game. Considering the commercial success that the original was met with, along with the current global popularity of RPG’s in general, a console adaptation of The Witcher is sure to be money spinner when it is eventually released.<\/p>\n
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Making this decision was extremely difficult and sad as we know that many people are waiting for this project. We do our best to find a way out of this situation. But final decision must guarantee high quality of the product, otherwise we won’t continue the production no matter what consequences it will bring. We are committed to the highest quality of all our games, and this is unnegotiable for us.
So no matter what the final decision or solution we will find, please be sure that it will be the best for the game quality, and satisfaction of gamers, which is the most important for us!
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