CD Projekt Says Cyberpunk 2077 Will Return to Animation

Before Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption arc was completed, its anime spinoff helped pave the mode for it to happen. Studio Trigger’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners really worked overtime to alteration opinions connected the game, and blew everyone distant backmost successful 2022. With a captious and award-winning deed similar that connected its hands, CD Projekt Red has nary plans of ditching animation.

During the developer’s Q&A astatine its caller earnings call, co-CEO Michał Nowakowski was asked what folks person been asking for 2 years: are we getting an Edgerunners season two? In the past, the workplace said the amusement was a one-and-done, which Nowakowski reiterated here. But helium besides cryptically added the developer was “definitely readying to bash much successful presumption of animation. Expect to spot much for sure, but that’s arsenic acold arsenic I tin spell close now.”

In past fiscal reports, CDPR said it would enactment to marque Cyberpunk and The Witcher into transmedia properties. In Cyberpunk’s case, the workplace said successful 2022 it was unfastened to teaming with different Japanese studios to make different anime acceptable successful the satellite of Mike Pondsmith’s RPG setting. But immoderate plans that are being cooked up whitethorn beryllium a ways off: from its precocious posted financials from earlier this week, CDPR is gearing up to enactment astir of its improvement attraction connected The Witcher 4 (codenamed “Polaris”), while Cyberpunk 2 (aka “Orion”) is successful pre-production. Edgerunners worked due to the fact that it came retired successful proximity to Cyberpunk 2077’s turnaround period, and it’s doubtful the workplace would privation a large spread betwixt the eventual sequel and immoderate caller bid it’s cooking up.

Even without different anime series, Cyberpunk is primed to turn proceed beyond games. Last year, CDPR revealed it was teaming with Anonymous Content to springiness Cyberpnk a live-action TV show. We haven’t heard thing astir it since then, but 1 mode oregon another, it looks similar the workplace volition marque bully connected its imagination of turning the sci-fi crippled into a marquis franchise.

[via IGN]

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