{"id":99404,"date":"2019-08-30T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/349769"},"modified":"2019-08-30T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:24:00","slug":"sales-revenue-up-at-cd-projekt-thanks-to-evergreen-the-witcher-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/30\/sales-revenue-up-at-cd-projekt-thanks-to-evergreen-the-witcher-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales revenue up at CD Projekt thanks to evergreen The Witcher series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Witcher<\/em> franchise is still driving revenue&nbsp;at Polish company CD Projekt, which is busy preparing for the launch of <em>Cyberpunk 2077<\/em> next year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdprojekt.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads-en\/2019\/08\/earnings-presentation_h1_2019-en-no-movies-skompresowany.pdf\">company&#8217;s fiscal report<\/a> for the six months ended June 30, 2019, sales revenue&nbsp;across the entire CD Projekt Group rose by 27 percent year-on-year to 214.4 million PLN ($54 million), while net profits dipped by 1 percent to 51.7 million PLN ($13 million).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of that revenue came from the firm&#8217;s game development division CD Projekt Red, which contributed 138.7 million PLN ($34.9 million) in sales revenue. The company&#8217;s DRM-free online storefront, <a href=\"http:\/\/GOG.com\">GOG.com<\/a>, brought in the remaining 81.1 million PLN ($20.4 million) &#8212; with both divisions witnessing an upswing in revenue year-on-year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdprojekt.com\/en\/media\/news\/cd-projekt-looks-back-at-the-first-half-of-2019\/\">Commenting on the report<\/a>, CD Projekt vice president Piotr Nielubowicz explained <em>The Witcher 3<\/em> was the main driver of sales revenue, and said the acclaimed RPG actually sold more copies during the first half of 2019 than it did in 2018.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed the group spent has 60 million PLN ($15.1 million) on the development on new games and technologies over the past six months, resulting in a cumulative balance of expenditures on development projects of 292 million PLN ($73.6 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Witcher franchise is still driving revenue&nbsp;at Polish company CD Projekt, which is busy preparing for the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 next year.&nbsp; According to the company&#8217;s fiscal report for the six months ended June 30, 2019, sales revenue&nbsp;across the entire CD Projekt Group rose by 27 percent year-on-year to 214.4 million PLN ($54 million), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}