This from Shacknews (now a pretty decent site):
Cult holiday hit The Witcher posted respectable retail numbers to back up its high critical marks, pulling in sales of 600,000 copies over a three month period according to developer CD Projekt.
That’s great! It’s great for PC Gaming (of which I’m still a huge fan), it’s great for RPGs, it’s great for censored ta tas and it’s great for new developers. May they break the mystical 1 mil mark soon and may they make more game that are just as damned interesting as The Witcher.
The most interesting part though is this:
“Only now–as we’ve conquered many of the initial barriers–can we spread our wings, which, of course, we intend to do,” added Kicinkski.
CD Projekt is planning a Witcher-related announcement for next Monday, promised to bring a surprise to fans by “late spring.” The studio has previously expressed an interest in porting the game to consoles, telling Shacknews last fall that the Witcher team was discussing the idea internally.
Hooray Surprises! I’m just hoping the surprise is that they are releasing the much talked about SDK soon. I’m jonesing to get my hands on that and see what you can do with the witcher engine. A console release would be a really good idea for them too. More money in the coffers to make more games in the future!
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What Would Matt Do: Make a game with the SDK. I’ve already got it half plotted out. I fell in love with the engine as soon as I started playing it and can’t wait to see what I can do with it. Of course, this being a mod, it’ll never see the light of day like 99.9% of mods.
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Update 1: I’m really liking these CD Projekt guys.
Not just the game itself will be improved, so will the contents of the game box. In addition to the game DVD, Enhanced Edition will ship with a second DVD that includes the D’jinii Mod Editor and two CD Projekt-developed adventures, a video DVD with a making-of video, a CD with the game’s 29 tracks, another CD with 15 tracks of music inspired by the game, an 80-page instruction booklet, a 112-page official game guide, a map of the game world, and a 50-page short story written by The Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski.
Not only that, but they promise those of us that already own it can get the new content for free as a download. That’s hot shit. Way to be awesome guys!