Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher developer CD Projekt Pink will not be taken with being acquired regardless of the likes of Xbox and PlayStation actively searching for out studios to buy.
Adam Kiciński, chief technique officer of mum or dad firm CD Projekt S.A., instructed Polish outlet Parkiet that the corporate is glad and wholesome as an impartial being.
“We aren’t taken with integrating ourselves into any bigger entity,” Kiciński mentioned. “All through our complete lives now we have labored in direction of the place we at present maintain. We imagine that in a couple of years, we shall be even larger and stronger.”
CD Projekt Pink is definitely getting larger as an enlargement into North America is at present underway. The aptly titled CD Projekt Pink North America will embrace groups at an already established Vancouver studio plus a brand new Boston-based studio at present being constructed. These groups will work adjoining to the CD Projekt Pink builders in Poland however will give attention to the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, codenamed Orion, as a substitute of the subsequent mainline Witcher recreation, codenamed Polaris.
One other studio owned by CD Projekt, maybe indicating its want to be an acquirer as a substitute of an acquiree, is The Molasses Flood, which stays impartial underneath the primary firm as it really works on a multiplayer Witcher recreation codenamed Sirius.
The online game business has seen considerably of an acquisitions race happen between titans Xbox and PlayStation, although the previous maybe claimed a win for good when it accomplished its buy of Name of Obligation writer Activision Blizzard in 2023.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.