Witcher 3 studio says "market is afraid of badly polished games"

Market afraid of early release of Witcher 3

An announcement made on the 9th of December regarding a further delay to The Witcher 3 - to 19^th of May 2015 - cited "many details that need to be corrected" and rued how "we set the release date too hastily". It came from the Board of CD Projekt. The Witcher 3 was originally supposed to be out in time for the 2014 holiday season, but the studio decided in May that it needed more time and so pushed it to February 2015.

A member of that Board, Adam Kici?ski, said"Gamers ..." he said "took our decision very well. [The] market is afraid of badly polished games on next-gen platforms." The board was defintely dissappointed at the announcement of the game too early on because the effect it had on other games which were released ealy on like the Assassin's Creed: Unity, DriveClub and The Master Chief Collection. Adam had more to say...

"There's a lot of small errors though, because the game is huge. It's the only reason behind the delay. We didn't assume it will be this big. Only after putting all the pieces together it turned out it's bigger than the two first put together. Let me remind you: it's open and not linear. We are just learning how to play it and we have to catch the little pieces. We know what to do, we just have to do it. We don't want to release the game with bugs that undermine the gameplay."

He also stressed out to point that since the game is so huge, even the Feb 2015 release is too early and he and the board are now regretting it.

We all hope the game comes out in time and is meeting upto the level of hype it was carrying and wish Adam and his team and the members of the Board the best of luck for the release of this game.