The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will officially be getting a new DLC expansion in 2027, developer CD Projekt RED announced just yesterday after months of rumours. Today, embedded within its latest financial report for the first quarter of its 2026 fiscal year, CDPR also revealed that the storied RPG hit yet another massive sales milestone, surpassing 65 million copies sold in its lifetime.
The Witcher 3 has been a known success with tens of millions of copies sold in the time since its original launch back in 2015, for years now, which is why it wasn't all too surprising when rumours first appeared that CDPR could be making another expansion for the highly successful RPG. In 2023, CDPR revealed it had surpassed 50 million copies, so to know that it sold an additional 15 million copies in the last three years better contextualizes why CDPR greenlit Songs of the Past as more than just something to help tide fans over until The Witcher 4 was ready for launch.
Which, speaking of, CDPR has once again put more efforts behind as it once again grew its staff, though not as significantly as the previous 24% increase we saw this past March, as the total number of developers only went up by about 4.3%, from 933 as of February 2026 to 975 as of April 30, 2026.
Within that, CDPR has 513 developers currently working on The Witcher 4, an slight increase of an additional dozen developers since its last financial report, with more of its team also working on Cyberpunk 2 and the upcoming Project Sirius.
If The Witcher 3 can still sell 15 million copies across three years even without a new expansion imminent, it'll be interesting to see how quickly it reaches its next sales milestone once the Songs of the Past DLC is nearing launch and eventually in players' hands.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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