Witcher 2 computer game clocks up vast sales
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
22.02.2012 13:34
Over a million copies of acclaimed Polish computer game The Witcher 2 were sold in 2011, according to figures published on Tuesday by the game’s developers.
Warsaw-based studio CD Projekt Red shifted 1.1 million copies of the game last year, as well as a further 400,000 of forerunner The Witcher 1.
“The number of games sold exceeded our expectations,” said Adam Kicinski, chairman of the company, in an interview with the Rzeczpospolita daily.
Such has been the international success of the two titles that President Bronislaw Komorowski decided to give a copy of The Witcher 2 to President Barack Obama when the American leader visited Warsaw last May.
Besides an Xbox360 version of The Witcher 2 – due to be released this April – Kicinski informed that the studio has also turned its attention to new horizons.
“In our productions to date, we have not gone beyond the world of the characters connected with The Witcher,” he said.
“This will change with the debut of the first large production based on a different world, which we started work on not long ago.”
Nevertheless, Kicinski was careful not to betray any more details about this latest venture. (nh/jb)