Witcher 3 Wild Hunt has been delayed until 2015

Written by Brandon Hofer on March 12, 2014

News: CD Projekt Red has revealed that their highly anticipated title, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, has been delayed until February 2015.

Witcher 3 has been delayed into 2015 according to CD Projekt Red. They released an open letter to their fans announcing the delay (shown below) basically saying that they know everyone is excited to play the game but they want to make sure the game is the best it can be before releasing it. While disappointing game delays often give us better games in the end and it is usually a good thing when a company can afford to delay a game to make it even better than it was going to be. The letter from CD Projket Red is below in its entirety:

Ever since we started working on the third installment in The Witcher franchise, it has been our aim to produce a title that would take our 11 years of experience in creating RPGS and distill them into a quintessence, into a game that would effectively crown those years. At the same time, we have wanted The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to expand creative boundaries, set new benchmarks, develop the genre as a whole. Ultimately, you, the players, must get an unforgettable adventure to experience in a vast, open world – and that’s most important. We’ve created a story that flows naturally, cinematically, rendered it in amazing sound and visuals, while preserving full freedom of choice – all for you. We knew this to be an ambitious plan, but believed we could achieve it by bringing together our team with its creative energies and current gaming platforms with their technical capabilities. A project this vast and complex would inevitably require special care in its final stages, manual fine-tuning of many details, thorough testing time and again.

We recently reexamined what we had achieved thus far, and faced a choice about the game’s final release date. The decision we made was difficult, thoroughly considered, and ultimately clear and obvious. We could have released the game towards the end of this year as we had initially planned. Yet we concluded that a few additional months will let us achieve the quality that will satisfy us, the quality gamers expect from us. Consequently, we have set the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for February 2015.

Dear gamers - we know many of you would have liked to play The Witcher 3 sooner, as soon as possible, even. We’re sorry to make you wait longer than you, or we, initially assumed you would. At the same time, we believe the game will prove to be worth the wait and meet the expectations you have of us. We believe The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be an exceptional RPG, one of the best, providing many hours of wonderful entertainment.

Dear shareholders – we are aware of the responsibility that rests with us and thank you for the trust you have granted us thus far. We firmly believe that quality – more than any other factor – determines a game’s success, and that the decision we have made is thus equally valid in business terms.
The Board of CD PROJEKT S.A

Are you still excited for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt? It will arrive on Xbox One, PS4 and PC in February 2015. Which version will you pick up? Tell us what you think below.