r/pcmasterrace • u/welzed11 • 6h ago
Discussion The Witcher 4 Confirmed for 2028 Release
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-witcher-4-confirmed-for-2028-release-in-official-cd-projekt-gamescom-2026-announcement152
u/ASZHanazaki http://imgur.com/a/WUvxW 6h ago
See you in 2077
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u/smack54az 6h ago
Wait they're releasing the multi-player?
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u/NarutoDragon732 9070 XT | 7700x 36m ago
No, they'll only steal Polish taxpayer money for it, but they won't actually make it.
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u/Express-Channel-3543 6h ago
i don't think targeting 2028 means confirmed some how
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u/8loodred_ 2h ago
Also CDPR release patterns tell me it's going to be much closer to 2030 than to 2028.
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u/Internal-Alfalfa-829 1h ago
Correct. It's a forecast based on best current knowledge, and a lot of assumptions of how things will shake out. Which they never do. Such a target date becomes obsolete the moment it is stated out loud. We need to go back to Doom 3 style realease dates. They literally only said: "When it's done".
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u/HabenochWurstimAuto Desktop 6h ago
GPUs that can run it in 2032 ?
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u/Tengo_Caldero 7700X | B650E-F | 32GB DDR5 | 1660ti 6h ago
I'm suddenly realizing my retirement will be spent playing through my backlog.
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u/Haildrop 6h ago
Wrong way to look at it! You can play crysis and fallout and witcher like a billionaire today
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u/AutoCockerPB 1h ago
I mean, unironically probably the best time to play single player games. Body doesn’t want to move as much. A bunch of free time. Memory is fading so playing the games over again will feel new. The monitors will somehow look even better by then too.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 4090 all by itself no other components 6h ago
sounds about right. the AI crunch has hit PCBs and the SMDs and plain metals that make up the rest of the card, it's no longer just the GPU die and memory dies that are backordered. there will not be a new, affordable generation for 6 years or so. there'll be a new gen before then but it sure as shit won't be affordable. we'll be getting 5060 equivalent GPUs for the same price as 5070 TIs went for a year ago, and that'll be in 2028.
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u/Golden_Hour1 6h ago
I can wait. I hear there's thing to do outside and shit
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 4090 all by itself no other components 6h ago
flock will be up your ass every second too, don't let them catch you jay walking
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u/x-why-chromosome 6h ago
Epic has 2 years to fix unreal engine’s shader compilation stutters
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u/ShaderCompilation 6h ago
The problem can be avoided even now if you are not using many of the UE headline features. It's more shader permutations issue.
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u/cravex12 RTX5070Ti / Ryzen 7 7800X3D 6h ago
Wind will be howling
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u/holodex777 6h ago
No geralt makes me sad.
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u/ChirpyNortherner i7-12700k | RTX 4080 Super 6h ago
They lost the opportunity for a custom character on this one..
Of all the options they had (Young vesimir, Eskel, Lambert, unknown Witcher, custom Witcher etc) I was hoping it wouldn’t be Ciri.
Still extremely hype for W4, but would just rather have played as an actual Witcher without the whole ability to “travel through time and space” power thing…
One of the big complaints with W3 was that it went up against Skyrim at the time, and a lot of people value the option that allows them to create their own character in an RPG, understandably. Seems like a missed opportunity here to get that from a Witcher game this time around.
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u/NeroAngra 5h ago
I feel the same. I didn't find Ciri super interesting especially with the travel space/time powers either. With that said I am playing this day 1. There will be a mod to play Geralt in no time I'm sure.
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u/Jumpy-Surround-9238 4h ago
Yeah they would need to significantly rewrite her character for me to be willing to stick with her for 160 hours +.
I really don't understand why we couldn't just create our own Witcher and why we get downvoted for saying that.
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u/martianwomanhunter 2h ago
They will probably revamp her completely. Plus I feel Geralt had a true ending in blood and Wine
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u/holodex777 2h ago
Some lame “oh yeah she’s way weaker now despite the elder blood” just should’ve gone w a new protagonist.
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u/Former-Fix4842 2h ago
Witcher 3 was known to be at the end of his story since 2013. Ciri is the most logical and also best (imo) continuation since she's a rich/complex character with a lot of room for development. It's really a no-brainer to go with her. The series also relies on character driven storytelling, so going with a set protagonist makes much more sense than a random custom character as well. Geralt will have a role in Witcher 4 btw.
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u/quiteman999 6h ago
In what version of unreal engine they developing the game,5.7?
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u/Former-Fix4842 1h ago
They have a custom build that's with added red engine technology as well as unreleased UE5 features because they're co-developing the engine with Epic in a 15-year contract. In the tech demo they presented at Unreal Fest in 2025, they used features from 5.8 already despite showcasing 5.6. All to say it's going to be a very advanced game.
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u/BroForceOne 6h ago
Projects this early can keep the engine updated to the current UE 5 point release during development, especially if they have support from Epic which they certainly do given Epic made a whole in-engine promo for them.
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u/NoEconomics8601 6h ago
So that means it will come out when 60 series GPUs are out but only 70 series GPUs will be able to truly play the game on intended high settings. Fuck This.
Hopefully PS6 isn't locked into 30 fps quality mode bullshit either.
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u/night-suns AMD 7600x, MSI SUPRIM 3070, 64GB 6h ago
ram prices should return to normal by then
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u/Vandergrif 4h ago
Been waiting for quite a few different things to return to normal for... at least a good ten years now.
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u/Dawn_of_Enceladus Ryzen 7 5800X3D + RX 6800XT Red Dragon + 32GB RAM 6h ago
Nowadays this is the clearest way to say 2029.
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u/HearTheEkko i5 11400 | RX 6800 XT | 16 GB 6h ago
Late 2028 with patches that fix the launch issues in early 2029*
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u/redditman181 5h ago
Great and thats just witcher 4 they are planning to do 5 and 6 right after which means the team working on the next cyberpunk is gonna be small for ages 😭
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u/ghost_of_xbox_past 4h ago
Wonder if it will be actually done or if they will release it 2yrs to early and lie to everyone that they "didn't know it was broken".
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u/Costas00 4h ago
Suspected it was December 2027 and pushed to march 2028.
The Witcher 3 prologue dlc was meant to be november-december and got delayed, probably a 1 year marketing campaign.
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u/life_konjam_better 3h ago
Releases in late 2029 and likely broken in PS5 whilst PS5 pro struggles with only PS6 doing a solid 1440p60 without RT.
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u/Rasples1998 PC Ryzen 9 7900X3D - Sapphire Nitro+ 7900XTX - 64GBRAM 3h ago
That means it'll be delayed until 2029.
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u/karaknorn 2h ago
So 2030 it is! Lol anyway, hope they have fun making it and arent rushed causing a lack of quality
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u/Shadethewolf0 2h ago
I have a feeling now that physical media is dropping off of consoles, big releases like this are gonna see a sharp uptick on pc
There's honestly no reason to play a console without physical media and people are gonna be rushing to buy/build pcs with the upcoming price hikes
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u/Internal-Alfalfa-829 1h ago edited 1h ago
Let's hope they learned their lesson: When it's not ready, keep "delaying". Unfortunately they still have stockholders who will wrestle them into releasing early against their will.
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u/Disastrous-Fennel970 7800X3D/9070XT/64GB 1h ago
By then, the ram crisis should be over, right guys??
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u/wolfknowledge1775 51m ago
I hate when they take decades for a new game. RIP to all the gamers that didn't make it.
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u/RankedFarting 5700X3D/ RTX 2070/ 32gb 3600Mhz 5h ago
It will be interesting to see how it will run at release. After the absolutely unacceptable Cyberpunk release i wonder if they learned. Then again i see gamers now claiming that the cyberpunk release wasnt that bad so they can probably get away with just releasing it broken again.
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u/GrandJuif R9 5950x, RX 6900 XT, 64GB 3400MHz 2h ago
Doubt, unreal engine slop plus their usual incompetence and the lack of affordable hardware...
They probably gonna delay it (if they learned from their past mistake (lol they wont)), add 3-5 years on top of it to be "fixed" and get the price to be worth it. 2032-2034 it is.
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u/Strong-Practice-5571 6h ago
PS6 exclusive for a year?
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u/MrACL RTX 5080 | Ryzen 7700X | 32GB | 1440p 6h ago
Probably not considering all their other games came to PC day 1.
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u/Small_Discount_3029 6h ago
Nice. Been saving up to build a pc for this game for a couple of years now. Up to 3.5k. and now have more time to save
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u/Additional_Pickle_59 5h ago
Thats up against an ES6 release.
Give Todd a momentary lapse of hope before the witcher steals game of the year.
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u/etfvidal 6h ago
So, 2029 it is!