The Wizard 4 the release date may not be as far away as you think. CD Projekt Red has earned the reputation of some for taking a long time to develop games and reveal them very soon, but none of these beliefs are based on much. Ciberpunk 2077 it was announced eight years before it was published. If this is your only point of reference, it’s easy to think that CD Projekt Red is announcing its games long before release. Despite this, Ciberpunk 2077 is punctual for the Polish developer. CD Projekt Red announced both The Wizard 2 i The Wizard 3 two years before they were released, which is, of course, more representative of your standard AAA version.
Ciberpunk 2077 it also gives players the impression that CD Projekt Red takes a long time to develop a game, but again it is misleading. While Ciberpunk 2077 was announced in 2012, did not go into pre-production until mid-2016, with proper development with a properly sized team that started even later. In the meantime, The Wizard 3 was manufactured in about three and a half years while The Wizard 2 it was done at a similar time.
What does this have to do with? The Wizard 4? Well, this week CD Projekt Red has announced that new development will begin Cyberpunk i Wizard games from 2022. If that is the case, I would assume it would mean The Wizard 4 – or whatever ends up calling the project – will come out in 2025 or 2026 taking into account the aforementioned schedules. If we work backwards, this would suggest that the game will be revealed sometime in 2023 or 2024 if it has a revelation-release schedule similar to previous entries.
What we do know is that you won’t have a huge gap between revealing and throwing like Ciberpunk 2077, because this week CD Projekt Red also confirmed that it wants to shorten its focus in this regard or, in other words, reveal its games when they are closer to launch.
For now, take all this speculation with a grain of salt because that’s all, it’s speculation. However, it is not a completely unfounded speculation and then Ciberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red probably wants to move on and get back to its bread and butter.