Cyberpunk 2077 hits 40 million copies sold as CD Projekt eyes the future

Cyberpunk 2077 has crossed 40 million copies sold, CD Projekt announced on July 3, 2026. Co-CEO Michał Nowakowski called it a reflection of "the incredible, lasting strength" of the game and said the milestone is "a testament to what CD Projekt does best — creating high-quality, immersive stories that keep players returning for years."

Nowakowski also tied the number directly to what comes next: "It's a great foundation for our upcoming projects in this universe, including the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 anime arriving this fall." For context on the journey here, Cyberpunk 2077 sold 13 million copies in its first 10 days back in 2020 — a staggering launch driven by years of hype — but the game itself was a wreck on arrival. The console version was so broken that Sony pulled it from the PlayStation Store entirely. CD Projekt spent years patching, rebuilding, and eventually expanding the game with the Phantom Liberty DLC, turning what looked like a career-defining disaster into one of the generation's best RPGs. The game now sits at a "very positive" user rating on Steam.

For all that, 40 million still trails The Witcher 3, which recently passed 65 million copies sold. Nowakowski himself isn't ready to declare the redemption arc finished — in June he said, "I'm not 100 per cent convinced we went through the full redemption arc. I'm convinced that we lost the faith of some people indefinitely, and that's a fair thing." That kind of candor is rare from a studio executive, and it says something about how seriously CD Projekt took the fallout from launch.

The 40 million announcement doubles as a soft marketing beat ahead of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 this fall, keeping Night City in the conversation while The Witcher 4 remains the studio's next major game. Whether the number keeps climbing depends largely on how much goodwill the studio can rebuild — and whether the next big project lands cleaner than the last one did.