CD Projekt RED has offered further details on why the decision was made to delay the release of The Witcher 3 by 12 weeks until May 19, 2015.
Board member Adam Kiciński told Polish financial journalists: "Gamers took our decision very well. [The] market is afraid of badly polished games on next-gen platforms."
He added: “We want to disarm the opinion that [The Witcher 3] doesn't exist. It will be closed by the end of the year in line with the schedule.
"There's a lot of small errors though, because the game is huge. It's the only reason behind the delay. We didn't assume it will be this big. Only after putting all the pieces together it turned out it's bigger than the two first put together. Let me remind you: it's open and not linear. We are just learning how to play it and we have to catch the little pieces. We know what to do with, we just have to do it. We don't want to release the game with bugs that undermine the gameplay."