CD Projekt shuts down rumors of Sony acquisition: \u201cNot for sale\u201d CD ProjektGaming developer CD Projekt has shut down the idea that Sony will be acquiring their studio after a recent rumor about the potential acquisition began gaining major traction online. Just recently, a rumor began circulating around social media that gaming juggernaut Sony had its eyes on acquiring CD Projekt to live under the umbrella that is the growing Sony Empire. Given that Sony and Microsoft have been acquiring studios almost constantly in the past few years, gamers were quick to share the rumor and add fuel to the flames. After all, Sony did recently acquire the likes of Bungie. However, these rumors were quicking shut down by CD Projekt president and CEO Adam Kici\u0144ski in an earnings call following the publication of the company\u2019s Q1 2023 earnings. When an attendee asked Kici\u0144ski if there was any truth to the recent rumors, the CEO was quick to shut them down, stating \u201cNothing has changed on our end.\u201d He then went on to add, \u201cI can repeat what we have been saying throughout the years \u2013 CD Projekt is not for sale\u2026We want to remain independent. We have, I believe an excellent strategy. Not easy to execute, for sure, but it\u2019s very exciting to follow our own path. So it\u2019s a pure rumor.\u201d CD Projekt confirm that they will not be bought out by Sony CD Projekt shot to fame as a major gaming developer after the massive success of The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. The 2015 title was hailed by critics and was even awarded Game of the Year. Despite being almost a decade old, the game still manages to be one that players continue going back to, with the title recently crossing over 50 million copies sold. However, the company\u2019s next big follow-up, Cyberpunk, failed to live up to the anticipation as a result of a rocky, bug-riddled launch. For all the latest gaming news and updates, be sure to check out Dexerto\u2019s full coverage here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CD Projekt shuts down rumors of Sony acquisition: \u201cNot for sale\u201d CD ProjektGaming developer CD Projekt has shut down the idea that Sony will be acquiring their studio after a recent rumor about the potential acquisition began gaining major traction online. Just recently, a rumor began circulating around social media that gaming juggernaut Sony had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}