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29.03.2024 - 23:56 / gamerant.com / Andrzej Sapkowski / Adam Kiciński / Mike Pondsmith / Dominik Bo / Ios
CD Projekt Red is actively exploring new mobile game opportunities, the developer has confirmed. This revelation was offered as part of its parent company's latest earnings report, which also saw CD Projekt reveal a 39% increase in full-year 2023 profits, largely driven by the sales of Cyberpunk 2077 and its Phantom Liberty expansion.
The Polish group is no stranger to mobile gaming, with its efforts on this front dating back to The Witcher Adventure Game, whose digital version reached Android and iOS devices in 2014. But the company's track record in the niche has been rather hot-and-cold. Most recently, CDPR has signaled it's pulling away from the smartphone gaming market by ending support for Gwent: The Witcher Card Game and shutting down The Witcher: Monster Slayer after less than two years.
But that doesn't mean all of its mobile ambitions are ending, with CD Projekt Joint CEO Adam Kiciński confirming as much during the company's latest earnings call. Asked about whether the group has considered the possibility of licensing its intellectual properties to third-party mobile developers, the executive responded affirmatively, as first reported by VGC. «We were pursuing, through conversations, opportunities like that,» Kiciński explained. He noted that CDPR still doesn't have anything of substance to announce on this front, but will «when the time comes.»
Game
Year
Developer
The Witcher Adventure Game
2014
CDPR, Can Explode
The Witcher Battle Arena
2015
CDPR, Fuero Games
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game
2018
CDPR
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
2018
CDPR
The Witcher: Monster Slayer
2021
Spokko
Gwent: Rogue Mage
2022
CDPR
Roach Race
2022
CDPR, Crunching Koalas
The Polish group presently owns two valuable gamemaking licenses granting it the ability to create interactive entertainment based on Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher and Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk franchises. The former has so far received seven mobile spin-offs, while the latter has yet to be treated to even one. Licensing either IP to third-party mobile developers could allow CDPR to keep them on the public's mind while it continues to work on new mainline entries. The Witcher 4 has only now entered active production, meaning it's unlikely to go gold until 2027 at the earliest. But another mobile spin-off could feasibly be produced on a much shorter timescale.
Meanwhile, the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel remains in pre-production, so it ostensibly won't see the light of day until at least the very end of the decade. Whether or not the franchise receives any mobile spin-offs in the meantime, CDPR hasn't given any indications that it's keen on tackling such prospective projects itself.
The company has even stopped supporting its biggest mobile hit, Gwent, in 2023, though its servers
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