BODY: Eleven years after Geralt first rode out of Kaer Morhen, CD Projekt Red is sending him back through the gate. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered launches today, September 29, on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC.
The package is comprehensive: the base game plus both expansions, Hearts of Stone (無情なる心) and Blood and Wine (血塗られた美酒) — the latter still widely regarded as the high-water mark for RPG DLC. CD Projekt Red says visuals, combat feel and the skill progression system have all been reworked rather than simply upscaled.
Pricing is where the Japanese story gets interesting. The Switch 2 edition is listed at ¥7,490, undercutting most first-party Switch 2 software. Anyone who already owns the game on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, GOG, Steam, Epic or Battle.net gets the remaster free. Owners of the 2019 Switch Complete Edition pay a token ¥100 to move up — a nominal fee rather than a free grant, a quirk of how cross-generation upgrades are handled on Nintendo's storefront.
On Switch 2 specifically, the game targets a 30–40fps range and adds mouse and gyro aiming support, leaning on the new hardware's control options rather than chasing a locked 60. CD Projekt Red has also confirmed a fresh DLC, Songs of the Past (追憶の調べ), for 2027 — meaning today isn't the end of the road for a decade-old game.
The insider take
The Witcher 3 occupies an unusual position in Japan. Western open-world RPGs rarely break through here, but CD Projekt Red invested in a full Japanese dub — a genuine rarity for a studio of its size in 2015 — and Spike Chunsoft handled the physical Switch release in 2019, giving the game shelf presence in Tsutaya and Yodobashi that most imported RPGs never get. That 2019 Switch port was, for a lot of Japanese players, the version they actually finished: 100-plus hours of monster contracts is a commute game, not a living-room game. Japan remains stubbornly handheld-first, which makes the Switch 2 SKU the one that matters locally — and the ¥100 upgrade a quietly shrewd way to bring that audience forward.
Originally reported by GAME Watch (Japanese).