@ll_exile_ll: Obviously Bethesda and CD Projekt Red are not the same company, but the point of the statement (which was not meaningless at all) is that companies making big games in recent years have been waiting a much longer time between sequels than they used to. This is true not just of Bethesda but also of companies like Rockstar, Naughty Dog, 343 Industries etc... The really big franchises have slowed their rate of production both because there tend to be longer pauses between games and because the games take longer to make. These companies feel like they can do other things in the meantime, and do not feel the same pressure to just churn out the same IPs over and over. There's no indication that CD Projekt Red is going to start a new Witcher game immediately other than this guy assuming that it will feel economic pressure (though it may not if Cyberpunk is a massive hit, especially with a Microtransaction filled multiplayer, which is what has sucked up Rockstar's resources) and even if it did, it's going to be doing Cyberpunk stuff for awhile (finishing and supporting the multiplayer, likely some single player expansions).
The point isn't that it takes 10 years to make a game, because it obviously doesn't, but that these studios don't feel the need to keep turning out games like they used to. We haven't even seen significant gameplay on Starfield, which is probably a few years out at this point, and ES6 is likely going to be at least 3-4 after that, meaning that it will have been nearly 15 years between entries. Do I think The Witcher will go 15 years between entries? No I don't. But I think it will probably be 7+. And that's based partially on what other studios, like Bethesda, have been willing to do.
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