Wahey, Cyberpunk 2077’s sequel has entered pre-production, and it looks like it might actually be called Cyberpunk 2

Excellent news on a Wednesday! Cyberpunk 2077‘s sequel has formally entered the pre-production stage of improvement, CD Projekt has confirmed. The sport additionally seems to have ditched its codename, Undertaking Orion, as a substitute now being referred to completely as Cyberpunk 2.

This information was introduced as a part of the studio’s newest monetary outcomes presentation, with the Cyberpunk sequel staff being congratulated for hitting this milestone as CD Projekt prepares to launch the primary recreation within the collection on Nintendo Change 2.

“A number of weeks in the past the CD Projekt Purple staff chargeable for the following huge recreation set within the Cyberpunk universe accomplished the venture’s conceptual part,” CD Projekt wrote in a release about these outcomes, “Consequently, Cyberpunk 2 – beforehand identified underneath the codename Undertaking Orion – has progressed to preproduction.”

Trying out the full presentation, we are able to see that as of April 30 this yr, the variety of devs at CDPR engaged on Cyberpunk 2 is now at 96, up from 84 as of February this yr. It is a drop within the bucket in comparison with the 422 listed as engaged on the closer-to-completion Witcher 4 as of that April date, however it’s nonetheless the studio’s second biggest-staffed ongoing venture. That is placing apart the 131 devs within the “shared providers” sector that handles basic stuff like localisation and high quality assurance throughout a number of video games.

This reveal comes alongside the information that the Phantom Liberty growth’s now shifted 10 million copies, whereas The Witcher 3‘s landed at 60 million copies offered because it’s celebrated its 10th birthday. That is a variety of guests to Dogtown and grumpy lad monster looking.

It will be attention-grabbing to see if CD Projekt sticks with the Cyberpunk 2 moniker or finally opts to shift to one thing with a yr in it to extra carefully mirror Cyberpunk 2077’s naming conference, however what we do know because of legendary TTRPG creator Mike Pondsmith is that it will contain a go to to a metropolis that “feels extra like Chicago gone fallacious”.