The Witcher 3 is getting yet another patch later in 2025, bringing cross-platform mod assist to the sport and making mods accessible on consoles for the very first time.
CD Projekt introduced the patch as a part of the celebrations of The Witcher 3’s tenth anniversary. It’s going to introduce cross-platform mod assist for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X and S later this yr. “For the primary time, creating, sharing, and having fun with mods for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt shall be simpler and extra accessible than ever,” CD Projekt mentioned.
Cross-platform mod assist shall be launched in a sport replace launched later this yr. You’ll must have a mod.io account and join it to your CD Projekt Crimson account with a purpose to entry cross-platform mod assist. Current modding companies can nonetheless be used, which means gamers don’t want to make use of mod.io to add and obtain mods for The Witcher 3. Nonetheless, to entry mods on consoles, mod.io is required.
It’s value noting that whereas Xbox Sequence X and S and PS5 gamers can take pleasure in taking part in the myriad mods accessible via cross-platform mod assist, mods should be created with a mod creator like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt REDkit on PC.
It’s a incredible replace for the 10-year-old sport, which stays massively well-liked and maintains a wholesome variety of gamers even now, a decade after launch.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is now as much as an unimaginable 60 million copies bought. The 60 million determine consists of gross sales of the bottom sport and the GOTY model, however excludes expansions bought individually. It’s near overtaking the most recent gross sales determine now we have for Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In a June 2023 interview with IGN, Bethesda improvement chief Todd Howard mentioned Skyrim had bought over 60 million copies. So, we now have a possible tie for the best-selling role-playing sport of all time.
Right here’s Adam Badowski, joint CEO of CD Projekt, on The Witcher 3 gross sales milestone:
Definitely, the third a part of Geralt’s adventures marks a pivotal level in our historical past. The sport earned a whole bunch of awards and solidified our studio’s standing, however extra importantly, it introduced untold hours of adventures and feelings to hundreds of thousands of video games the world over. I’m proud to announce that since its launch The Witcher 3 has bought over 60 million copies, securing a spot among the many bestselling video video games in all historical past, and motivating us to hold on with intensive work on the following trilogy set on this universe.
That’s a reference to The Witcher 4, which is presently in full manufacturing. 422 out of 730 builders at CD Projekt are engaged on the sequel, which received’t be out till 2027 on the earliest.
Wesley is Director, Information at IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You possibly can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
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