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A former Destiny boss and Bungie executive thinks another The Witcher 3 expansion is a great idea because there’s now a whole generation of gamers who weren’t even old enough to play the game a decade ago.
CD Projekt Red this week revealed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Songs of the Past, an upcoming expansion made years after the last major bit of content hit the 2015 RPG. Bungie’s ex-vice president Mark Noseworthy took to social media to praise the developer’s strategy of renewing the brand before all eyes inevitably turn to The Witcher 4.
“Great idea on a couple of levels,” he tweets. “Gets the Witcher (game brand) in the current gamer discussion and grows the audience for W4. Half a generation of players weren’t of age when W3 shipped.”
Songs of the Past is also being led by Fool’s Theory, the studio that’s made up of many CDPR veterans and is currently working to remake The Witcher 1. Getting the developer to cut their teeth on a relatively smaller project is another win, in Noseworthy’s books, since it “brings up a partner developer who can contribute to W4 (now they’ve got their reps).”
We don’t know too much about the expansion aside from the fact that we’ll be stepping into Geralt’s bath-soaked shoes again and it’ll launch sometime next year for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
CDPR also decided to split the difference and explain they’re calling it an expansion because, to them, DLCs “are small pieces of content we release for free.” Expansions instead include hours of gameplay and “new story, characters, etc.” Do with that information what you will.