You have to give credit to CD Projekt RED for, well, pretty much everything they've done surrounding the release of The Witcher 3. From listening to critical feedback on previous Witcher games' boyish ideas about female sexuality and maturing them for the third outing, to the generous post-launch DLC they've given out for free, right through to offering The Witcher 2 free for Xbox One gamers until February, it's been a pleasure to have them around. With The Witcher 3 being almost universally lauded as Game of the Year (ourselves included), its place high in the bestsellers' charts is well deserved. While its predecessor established the franchise as a serious RPG contender, it's still impressive that it manages to rub shoulders with much longer-established series on the sales front. In more worrying stats for Microsoft, the PS4 version outsold the Xbox One version almost 3 to 1, and last time CD Projekt revealed the sales for the PC version, it too was handily outselling the Xbox One version. The Xbox 360 may have shot the Witcher series to fame, but it looks like it's all but abandoned its Microsoft associations now... Do all these games deserve to have sold as well as they have? Should we thank them for keeping the games industry lucrative? Let us know with a comment, or if you want your opinions read by millions of people each month, try writing for WhatCulture!
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