Things are going pretty good for CD Projekt right now. The publisher has just shared its full financial results for 2024, and revealed that it just recorded its best net profit for a year in which it didn’t put out any major releases. Cyberpunk 2077 was the main driver behind this, as it continues to help hold down the fort until The Witcher 4 arrives.
This info’s detailed in a fresh press release and presentation from the company in which it looks back on its financial results for the whole of 2024. There’s also a nice video starring CDPR CFO Piotr Nielubowicz that goes through the highlights.
“We are very satisfied with the fact that, even in the absence of any major launch, the past year was the third best in the Group’s history in terms of net profit,” Nielubowicz said in the press release, adding in the video that this marks “the best result we have ever managed in a year which did not include any major releases.”
Figures wise, that net profit was nearly 470 million Polish złoty, with Cyberpunk’s base game and Phantom Liberty DLC being cited in the release as having “generated nearly 600 million [złoty] in earnings”, while The Witcher 3 “continues to attract attention and produces a stable revenue stream” despite being 10 years old. As of the end of November base Cyberpunk had shifted 30 million copies over its entire lifespan, while Phantom Liberty expansion had shifted 8 million, which is nice.
Naturally, this means the studio’s looking to do more Cyberpunk stuff, with the game set to arrive on MacOS at some point this year, and CD Projekt joint CEO Michał Nowakowski adding: “We are also working to expand the Cyberpunk universe. In 2024 we announced a new animation project, which is currently under development, and which will be released on Netflix. And that’s just some of what we have in store.”
As for The Witcher 4, it’s still very much in the full production stage it was revealed to have entered late last year, just before it was properly revealed at The Game Awards. CD Projekt seems pretty chuffed with the reception that reveal got, citing data showing that the trailer outdid the likes of Elden Ring Nightreign in terms of trailer views on IGN’s channel and overall percentage of press headlines in the 72 hours following TGAs, with “particular attention devoted to Ciri” being protagonist in terms of the latter.
The reason for that last bit may well have had something to do with one of those silly discourses that just won’t die – that being dickheads saying weird things about Ciri’s face, and the rest of us all going ‘you what, she just looks like an actual adult woman that’s still very attractive’.
Anyway, to lighten the mood after thinking about that again, here’s a Cyberpunk 2077 mod that’ll send you random facts about cats and dogs as you play.