<story><title>CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5</title><url>https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/cd-projekt-is-remaking-the-first-i-witcher-i-game-in-unreal-engine-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tade0</author><text>&amp;gt; Now we know that it&amp;#x27;s a ground-up remake of the game that introduced Geralt of Rivia to Witcher fans outside of Poland.&lt;p&gt;I was always of the impression that it was Witcher III that achieved this.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m Polish so I genuinely don&amp;#x27;t know. Were the previous two installments popular outside of Poland?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yamtaddle</author><text>Witcher 1 made a big splash among fans of PC RPGs and action RPGs. Didn&amp;#x27;t hurt that it landed in the middle of a relative doldrums for those genres—they got much healthier again a bit after that.&lt;p&gt;2 and 3 switched to a more console-friendly style of play and had good success there, though, so I expect they did more to spread the word than 1 did.</text></comment>
<story><title>CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5</title><url>https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/cd-projekt-is-remaking-the-first-i-witcher-i-game-in-unreal-engine-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tade0</author><text>&amp;gt; Now we know that it&amp;#x27;s a ground-up remake of the game that introduced Geralt of Rivia to Witcher fans outside of Poland.&lt;p&gt;I was always of the impression that it was Witcher III that achieved this.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m Polish so I genuinely don&amp;#x27;t know. Were the previous two installments popular outside of Poland?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giobox</author><text>Witcher 1 not so much, but Witcher 2 had a pretty good 360 port that a lot of people played in the West, and PC version did well too - across all platforms 1.7 million copies sold by 2012, another article I saw suggests 8 million by 2014.&lt;p&gt;I think thats getting towards very roughly ~1&amp;#x2F;4 the success of Witcher 3, volume wise. Not bad, considering Witcher 3 volume includes a portable Switch release.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eurogamer.net&amp;#x2F;the-witcher-2-sales-top-1-7-million&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eurogamer.net&amp;#x2F;the-witcher-2-sales-top-1-7-millio...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;etc.</text></comment>