Witcher 3 - Status and The Witcher Mobile Game

GameBanshee brings the news that a NeoGaf forum member translated CD Project Red's 2014 financial report, in which they mention the current status of The Witcher 3, work on a mobile adventure game of The Witcher.

About their plans for 2014 with respect to new developments:

• Witcher comics - digital and paper
• Continuous intensive marketing action for TW3
• Witcher 3 preorders
• Release of The Witcher Adventure Game (board game) - Q3 2014
• 2 mobile titles: The Witcher Adventure Game and a new multiplatform project.
• Together with an external development studio we are working on the multiplatform mobile game, which uses advanced features of tablets and smartphones
• We are entering a completely new territory, both in terms of gameplay and business model
• Work on the project began over a year ago, independently from TW3 and Cyberpunk 2077.
• The game will be announced together with beta sign-up.
• Commercial release this year.

And about The status of The Witcher 3:

Finished:

• Dialogue lines are closed & implemented
• They are currently recording voice overs for each language version of the game
• The world of the game is completed - locations are finished, all important gameplay mechanics are already implemented
• Graphic assets and animations are nearing completion
• The game can already be played in full
• REDengine 3 supports all 3 platforms
• The physical elements of the collector's edition are in production

What's left:

• Implementation of the remaining side quests
• Importing voice overs and testing their quality/changing them
• Gameplay testing and balancing
• Continuous work on improving the quality of graphic assets, animations, effects and sounds - this will last until just before going gold
• REDengine3 optimization

The reasoning behind the 2015 release:

•  Less competition
• Improved effectiveness of marketing campaign targeted at aware gamers and not random gift-buyers.
• Better polished game: the last 20% of time stands for 80% of the game's attractiveness.
• More new-gen consoles on the market = more customers