Friday, September 6th 2024
CD Projekt Red CEO Confirms Plans for Future Animated Projects
During a recent earnings call, Co-CEO of CD Projekt Red (CDPR) Michal Nowakowski confirmed that thanks to the success of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the development team will be looking at further animation projects.
"[The developer is] definitely planning to do more in terms of animation," says Nowakowski (on Gizmodo). "Expect to see more for sure, but that's as far as I can go right now."
Considering the fact that upcoming projects, The Witcher 4 (given the codename "Polaris") and Cyberpunk 2 (given the codename "Orion") are massive projects which would definitely take a lot of resources and focus, it will probably take a while to finish the animated series. But then again, considering the fact that CDPR will likely play a supervisory role for any project undertaken, a new animated series might not take a huge amount of time.Edgerunners was released around the same time as a major Cyberpunk 2077 update, which was a great way to tell the players to give Cyberpunk 2077 a second chance, and as we all know, the anime turned out to be a very good one. If CD Projekt Red has another insane anime like Edgerunners under their sleeves, they'll probably keep it cooking till it's ready to generate a lot of hype for another release.
Edgerunners, the anime that CDPR released at that time was really successful, to the extent that it pushed CDPR to "the best third quarter in our entire history," according to the chief financial officer, Piort Nielubowicz. "With consolidated revenues at zł246 million ($54.3 million), mostly owing to strong sales of Cyberpunk. The group posted zł99 million ($21.8 million) in net profit."
That's not surprising as the anime was undoubtedly splendid. Even if the anime had a million episodes, there's no doubt, many of us would definitely watch it to the end.
"[The developer is] definitely planning to do more in terms of animation," says Nowakowski (on Gizmodo). "Expect to see more for sure, but that's as far as I can go right now."
Considering the fact that upcoming projects, The Witcher 4 (given the codename "Polaris") and Cyberpunk 2 (given the codename "Orion") are massive projects which would definitely take a lot of resources and focus, it will probably take a while to finish the animated series. But then again, considering the fact that CDPR will likely play a supervisory role for any project undertaken, a new animated series might not take a huge amount of time.Edgerunners was released around the same time as a major Cyberpunk 2077 update, which was a great way to tell the players to give Cyberpunk 2077 a second chance, and as we all know, the anime turned out to be a very good one. If CD Projekt Red has another insane anime like Edgerunners under their sleeves, they'll probably keep it cooking till it's ready to generate a lot of hype for another release.
Edgerunners, the anime that CDPR released at that time was really successful, to the extent that it pushed CDPR to "the best third quarter in our entire history," according to the chief financial officer, Piort Nielubowicz. "With consolidated revenues at zł246 million ($54.3 million), mostly owing to strong sales of Cyberpunk. The group posted zł99 million ($21.8 million) in net profit."
That's not surprising as the anime was undoubtedly splendid. Even if the anime had a million episodes, there's no doubt, many of us would definitely watch it to the end.
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And here's Shueisha for you:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichiro_Oda#Personal_life
Having a long series is one thing (I can't imagine LoGH and Monster being shorter are they're both incredible) but when the news articles read "One Piece reaches 'milestone' Episode 1000", I remembered Japan's lifetime employment culture and figured they were padding their grandchildren's trust funds.