Cyberpunk maker CD Projekt’s first-half net profit jumps 88%

:Poland’s biggest games developer CD Projekt posted on Wednesday an 88 per cent year-on-year jump in its first-half net profit, driven by higher sales of its flagship Cyberpunk game.
Net profit reached 170.0 million zlotys ($44.1 million), compared with analysts’ forecast of 163 million zlotys.
Revenue for the period rose 31 per cent to 424.8 million zlotys. Sales of “Cyberpunk 2077” together with its “Phantom Liberty” expansion jumped about 81 per cent to 257.7 million zlotys.
CD Projekt said it is gearing up to start the full-fledged production phase of project Polaris, the first instalment in the new Witcher saga.
“Work on Polaris is progressing – its development team is nearing a major milestone which will mark the end of the preproduction phase,” joint CEO Michal Nowakowski said in a statement.
“The first half of the year was also a busy period for our Boston studio, which is laying the groundwork for Project Orion – a new game set in the Cyberpunk universe”, he added.
As of July 31, 410 developers were working on the new Witcher saga under the codename Polaris.
($1 = 3.8583 zlotys)