Development on the The Witcher 4--codenamed Polaris--has taken another step forward, as CD Projekt Red revealed that it has 403 employees working on it. Earlier this year, joint CEO Adam Badowski had mentioned how he was aiming to have "around 400" people on the next mainline Witcher game. This is roughly two-thirds of CDPR's workforce, and according to joint CEO Michal Nowakowski (via VGC), this will allow the production phase of the game to begin later this year.

Early in the development of Polaris, Nowakowski mentioned how the game had just 17 people working on it as most of the staff had been reorganized and sent to work on other projects following the release of Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion. Cyberpunk 2077 still has 17 people providing support, while other projects like Orion, Sirius, and Hadar have 47, 37, and 20 people working on them, respectively. As of February 29, 2024, CDPR has 627 developers assigned to several games, services, and other projects.

Polaris is the fourth main Witcher game and will be the start of a new trilogy in the series. The first Witcher game is also getting a remake and CDPR is aiming to modernize it while also removing some of its more dated elements. During the development of Phantom Liberty, CDPR implemented an organizational overhaul. The company has aimed to create more open lines of communication and set up flexible teams that can quickly respond to any issues during the production of a game.

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