The Witcher becomes one of the most successful game series of all time

More than 75 million copies of the entire series have been sold, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by itself selling more than 50 million.

New information from The Witcher game developer CD Projekt Red (CDPR) has given us a better understanding of just how massive The Witcher really is. The Witcher video games have sold over 75 million copies, with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt accounting for over 50 million of those sales, the studio revealed on Monday.

These kinds of figures indicate that the series is among the most successful video game franchises ever. The Witcher 3 is now within striking distance of blockbuster games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Red Dead Redemption 2, which together have sold more than 53 million copies and rank among the best-selling video games of all time.

In the upcoming years, those Witcher sales figures will probably increase significantly. The Witcher 3 recently received a next-generation update, and CDPR has several other Witcher games in development, including a remake of the first Witcher game, a new Witcher trilogy, and a spinoff with the working title "Project Sirius”.

We can only hope that these new games perform better than Cyberpunk 2077 at launch, even though CDPR has largely improved that game and released a next-generation patch for it in February 2022. Soon, we'll learn a lot more about Cyberpunk 2077: Idris Elba will appear in the game's upcoming major expansion, Phantom Liberty, at the invitation-only Play Days event at Summer Game Fest in June, CDPR also revealed on Monday