Good day and welcome to the CD Projekt Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Adam Kucinski. Please go ahead.
Good evening. I'm Adam Kicinski, Joint CEO of TD Proit. Thank you for joining today's call, which concerns the postponement of the Cyberpunk 2077 release date by three weeks until December 10. We explain the reasons behind today's decision and also answer any questions you may have. First and foremost, on behalf of the whole Board, I would like to offer an apology for breaking our promise and failing your trust.
We underestimated the time required for the very final processes. The game is ready for PC and runs great on the next gen consoles and could practically be shipped the scheduled date on those platforms. However, even though the game has been certified on the current gen both Sony and Microsoft, some very final optimization processes for such a massive and complex game require a bit of additional time. Moreover, while we are releasing on the PC and two consoles brands, we are in fact preparing and testing nine distinct versions of the game for the following platforms PC, Xbox One, Xbox One X, PS4, PS4 Pro compatible releases on Xbox Series S and Series X, PS5 compatible release and Stadia. And last but not least, despite all the effort taken to limit the impact of COVID-nineteen on our work, the current pandemic situation at this final stage of the project is not making things any easier.
We are fully aware of the consequences of this decision, but at the same time we feel we have an amazing game on our hands and believe that the decision is the right one to take and will be borne out in the long run. With that, I think we can go ahead with the Q and A session. I'm at your full disposal as for our and Malkowski, Member of the Board responsible for our publishing. So now we can start Q and A session.
Thank Our first question comes from Omar Sheikh with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.
Good evening, everyone. I've got three questions. My first one is, if you go back to what you said on in the June when you last delayed the game, I think you specifically ruled out delaying it again beyond November 19. So my first question is why is it different this time? Why are you confident that you can get this game out on December 10?
That's the first question. And secondly, you mentioned, Adam, in your comments that you quote you used was we have an amazing game on our hands. Could you maybe provide some feedback that you've been getting from the testing on how the game plays and how we can get comfortable that actually when we get out get the game out, that it will be an amazing game and the quality will be as high as everyone expects it to be? Some color on that would be very helpful. And then thirdly, just longer term, I mean, you've had some issues with getting this game out on the in the time frame that you thought because you've cited the complexity a number of times.
But obviously, you've got a very big project to come over the next couple of years to get multiplayer out. So how confident are you that you are going to be able to handle getting multiplayer out in two years? Has your experience with the single player games increased your confidence or decreased it? Thank you very much.
Hello, thank you for questions. Adam Kucinski on this end. So starting from the first one. Now we are in a very different situation, of course. As I said, we have the game ready on PC and it plays great on both next gen consoles and we are really finalizing the processes on the current gen.
To be honest, releasing on nineteenth is possible and was possible as well, but we believe that having this extra two weeks will secure more things to be really ready as we want. But those processes, we are talking only about technical things or in the very final stage. So well, the confidence now is even bigger than before. I mean, we can play, we have it. So I don't know how can I describe it deeper, but
the confidence is here?
I mean we are happy having more time and we believe that this is the right move. I know that three weeks seems not to be a long period of time but it doubles the time we had. So I mean before the decision was made. This is something which can help us with those technical things regarding current giants. Maybe with the second one, I'll pass to Michal because Michal was recently playing the game heavily.
Maybe Michal can share his own judgment and his own opinion.
Hi. This is Mihael Novakoski. I'll actually not share my own judgment because I'm not impartial, of course. But when it comes to feedback from testing, we actually have quite a bit of that by now. And while the test feedback is actually quite lengthy, it would take us way too long time to pass it in full, plus a lot of this is very technical.
We break it into very minute answers in some point. But there is one thing which was actually recurring in all of the tests we've we've done, and we have we have people completing games. Like, yesterday night, we had people completing games in Japan, for example. We we heard from them. And the thing that we keep hearing is this is unlike anything they've played before.
And that comes from the mouthful people who actually are playing games. They are fans of video games, and I am only assuming that I've seen quite a lot. So that gives us a lot of confidence in the quality of the content we have prepared. It's of the highest standards and we're super happy with what we're about to deliver.
Adam Kicinski again. And the third question about future projects. It's a hard lesson and we know that we have to make some organizational changes in technical part of the company. We believe that we have resources and actually having such a harsh lesson gives us better chances to be more prepared for the future challenges I believe. So we take this lesson seriously and we believe that future projects on this technical side will be done more properly.
Okay. But can you just elaborate a little bit on what exactly you mean by technical issues?
I mean that we should having the game label in earlier stages. I mean having such a big game too many things was put together at the late stages and we should have more playable builds earlier than later.
So
well, what can I add? Because the reason behind is that we are really focused on the content, are really focused on delivering the greatest games and but at the same time we believe that we can organize the technical side having, as I said, having more earlier playable versions than before. And with multiplayer it's a different project. So actually we have first prototypes and through the whole course of the production we'll keep them running and working. So and of course there is one more thing.
We'll release future releases probably just on the next gens which will help a lot. I mean now we are releasing the game which is to be honest really next gen game and we are preparing this game for the fairly old machines and this is very unique challenge and we won't have it in future projects, at least in next one.
Okay, great. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Our next question comes from Ken Rumpf with Jefferies. Please go ahead.
Hi, everybody. Still looking forward to visiting Night City. I have three questions. One is is to take the opposite tack that to ask for assurance from you that you're confident that this is enough time because, you one could worry that rather than delay the game suppose you'd needed seven weeks, which would have implied the game comes out in early January, which commercially is not a good time and it's an exponential year. So you understand my question.
Are you confident this is enough time? Secondly, will it mean I'm sure you'll get some criticism for kind of extended crunch. Will this relieve any pressure? Third one is, I guess this therefore means that cash receipts will fall into the next financial year.
And
finally, any refunds been requested because of the delay? And do you think this could provoke further requests for refunds? Thank you.
We are firm. We are I mean, we feel firm. As I said, the game is releasable on nineteenth. So having those three more weeks just gives us, you know, better chances to fix this and that or to we feel secure and firm. Of course the decision was not easy, but we know that there's just one release and the first impression is crucial.
So we thought that in the long run, having a few things done, which won't be done, having it on nineteenth, will work in favor, but we feel maybe not comfortable, but we feel firm and we are releasing on time. Michel, can you take the second one? And I'll take Crunch, right. So with the Crunch, actually it's not that bad. Never was.
I mean it's a kind of story which of course is floating around media, but some people of course are crunching heavily, but a big part of the team is not crunching at all. Mean they finished their work. So it's mostly about QA and engineers, programmers. But it's not that heavy. And of course, it will be extended a bit, but we have a feedback from the team.
Team is happy that we'll have this extra three weeks. So we don't see any threats in regards of crunch.
Now for the third one, this is Mihara Vakowski. I think the question was whether the majority of revenues and cash collection is going to move to the next year because these are separate things actually. When it comes to revenues, as a matter of fact, I wouldn't go as far as saying that the majority of revenues is going move. That's a significant portion because, of course, we're going to have less time this calendar year is of course going to move. But
Yes. Don't want
to ask you question.
Just the timing Yes. Of for the cash, I'm going to allow Peop to speak in a second. I'm just going to talk about the refunds. If you if you mean what do you mean by the refunds? Do you mean refunds as in
If I refund and I
now decided December 10 is too late, I can't stand to wait another three weeks. So you can tell that I'm not convinced it's a big problem, but tell me.
Well, I we don't think it is, to be perfectly honest. We think people will wait for the game. We see people excited for the game, and we I can't imagine huge masses of people canceling their preorders and collecting the money back. Well, whether somebody's gonna do it, yes, for sure. I mean, whenever there's an event like that, there's always somebody who is frustrated and and cancels the preorders.
Sometimes these people do come back, sometimes not. We're, of course, gonna do everything we can by presenting materials, previews, reviews, and so on finally to convince these people back to our team if this is the case, but we don't see that as a mass problem, I would say. And when it comes to cash, I will actually hand it over to Piotr.
Yes. Hello, Piotr Nielubovic here. There will be couple of sources of cash flowing to the company. First installments due to us upon the release of the game and the release will still happen this year. So such installments should land on our bank accounts till before the December.
Then within the physical distribution, the reporting is done in quarterly cycles. So regardless of the release date in November or December, Still the reports will be delivered to us in both cases would be reported will be delivered to us at the beginning of next year. And respective payments should in both scenarios be done in the beginning of next year. In case of digital distribution, especially on PC, reports are delivered monthly basis. So still this year we should get payments for all of the preorders generated in November.
However, December sales will be reported and paid to the company at the beginning of next year. So assuming the Premier sales will be moved from the November window to December window, in this case the revenues will also move to the beginning of next year. However, the effect of it should be either delaying the cash flow for the company by one month or in the cases where we generate sales by GUG by twenty one days. So it's not a significant delay in terms of the time that is to be considered.
Okay. Well, makes sense. Thank you very much, Shantel.
Our next question comes from Matthew Walker with Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.
Thanks so much. Good evening, everyone. Just a few questions, please. The first is you mentioned you said not the majority of revenues, but a significant portion will move into next year. So could you just say roughly how significant is that move in your view?
Second question is really on expenses. How will this impact the expenses for the company, particularly in marketing, but also any other expenses which are impacted? Is there any impact on how you pay your physical distribution partners? That will be the second question. And then I didn't quite catch the explanations on the different platforms that you just gave for revenues and cash movement into January for some of those platforms.
So could you just go over that again, please?
Yes. So first of all, I referred to the question of the cash being postponed, not the revenues being postponed to next year. As far as the cash that is considered to be postponed partially to next year in physical distribution, the situation should not change. In both scenarios, both the release of in November and December, the situation was and still should be that the payments for our royalties will happen at the beginning of next year. In case of digital, all royalties for PC preorders from November should be reported and paid to the company this year and royalties for December sales will always be reported and paid to
the company at the beginning
of next year. So this does not change the whole system. However, the premier sales will happen in case of digital distribution in December and not in November. Only preorders will happen and then PC will be paid by the end of this year. So this is the change I referred to.
Secondly, you asked me a question about revenues being moved to 2021. Yes, definitely. I mean the time for the game to exist on the market this year will be shortened by three weeks. But at the same time we made an analysis of the sales of The Witcher three after the release And this exercise showed us that vast majority of sales approximately 90% happened within the first four weeks of after the release. The vast majority of the first quarter sales for The Witcher So still within this year, we will have the most important events or situations stimulating the sales.
First, the premiere of the game and secondly, the pre holiday season that should also support sales on the market. Therefore, we believe that even though the timing though for the game this year, the market is shorter, we will have revenues probably slightly smaller, but still very much comparable to the initial plan we had. And what's even more important, we are not making this decision and we are not developing the game with the idea of generating one quarter revenues. The whole project is designed to create a game that will sell for years and that will generate sales for us four years like we proved it with The Witcher three, with The Witcher two and with The Witcher one that is still selling at the levels comparing to the premier of The Witcher one at a very high value. So the same is with Cyberpunk.
Obviously, it somehow affected this year, but the decision to focus on quality should support the long term sales of the game. The second question was about the expenses. Definitely we'll need to rethink the marketing campaign, reschedule it a bit to cover this release window in December. And such rescheduling will most probably involve some increase of the expenses for our marketing. But it's too early to show exactly how much the marketing budget will increase.
We've made the decision really fresh. The decision is really fresh and we are working on rescheduling the marketing campaign as it goes right now.
Sorry. Can I just clarify two things? What happens to the cash flow from the console, the digital console sales? When does that come in? And could I just double check that you said for which a 390% of the sales came in when you released it, 90% came in the first quarter so the first four weeks, sorry.
Yes. We released the Witcher three in the middle of the quarter and it enjoyed exactly six weeks of sales by the end of the premier quarter. And during the first four weeks out of the six weeks, approximately 90% of the total first quarter sales occurred. So that's what I wanted to say. As far as the cash from digital console sales is concerned, it should arrive on our bank accounts at the beginning of next year.
Okay. Thank you very much.
Our next question is coming from Adrian de Saint Hilaire with Bank of America. Please go ahead.
Yes. Thank you and good evening everyone. So my first question is, can you disclose anything in terms of the level of preorders for the game either on PC or somewhere else? And does the delay change anything in terms of your unit expectations? My second question is, given your comments around the quality of the game, I'm just curious what sort of Metacritic score would you be disappointed with?
And then my third question is, in order to boost sales for the game in December, will you consider doing a bit more aggressive discounts? And is there a risk that the average selling price is a bit lower perhaps than people would imagine? Thank you very much.
Adam Kuczynski again. I'll take the first one. We can not we can't say too much about preorders, but we can share that the ratio between preorders for Witcher three at the same stage and preorders for Cyberpunk is continuously very satisfying. So we are happy with preorders and we are looking forward to the final stage as majority of preorders is always done the very final stage. And about expectations, Meta Critics maybe that Micha will cover, but there was something in the first question as well regarding preorders out sales.
We think that the twenty one day move shouldn't change anything. I mean, it just moves sales and we really think about sales in the long term. And this is secured by quality and nothing else matters. So having better quality, having better initial reaction to the game always works in favor for sales. So that's why we are delaying because as I said we don't have to but we believe that having this extra time gives us even more gives us more secure, I mean, more sureness that everything is at it should be in the game, which will be released on December 10.
Michal, maybe you can cover the second one.
Sure. This is Michal Abakowski again. So when it comes to Metacritic, we continuously aim at a 90 plus game. So nothing has changed here And this this this still is the goal. This still is the target.
And and and as I mentioned, this is actually one of the reasons the the main reason why we are actually moving that day because we wanna give an extra polish. We'd rather be slightly ashamed right now in front of you than than be ashamed in front of the players once the game releases. So that gives the quality and gives the sale. Now in terms of average selling price, whether there's gonna be some more aggressive program or something, the answer is no. This was not the plan when we were planning to launch on the November 19.
This is still on the plan on the December 10. We we believe for a premium title that's really coveted by the players and there's definitely no need to give any extra incentives. I think everybody who's going to be working on selling this game, retail and digital platforms are going to be happy with what they're going to make once the game is going to start selling.
Thank you for all these answers. If I could just ask one follow-up is, are you going to spend a bit more around advertising and marketing to maybe cover for the sort of negative PR of the first days? Or is the marketing budgets unchanged?
There is going to be some extra supporting budget for sure to account for the change date. Yes, there's going to be some extra spend.
Okay. Thank you very much.
You.
Our
next question comes from Matti Lutunen with Bernstein. Please go ahead.
Good evening. A couple of questions left. The first one, it's quite rare to get a delay after the gold certification for the game. Does being these with a lot of copies sold digitally, does this still bring any logistical issues with it? Or is it just a question of having a bigger day one patch?
And then the other question I had was on the changed release schedule for the Stadia version. So I understand that that was recently pushed earlier to coincide with the launch on all the other platforms. Now you mentioned the challenge of launching nine sort of versions at the same time. So could you explain that decision in light of this delay? Thank you.
Okay. So it's Peter Verkowski again. So just to be sure I understand the first question correct, is your answer is your sorry, not answer. Is your question whether the delay after gold has something to do with the logistic issues or
what No. Sorry. Whether it brings any logistical issues with it that, you know
Okay. So okay, I understand. So yes, it brings certain issues because of course we're not releasing the stocks to the retail, we're not releasing the stock to the distributors as was planned for the November 19 date, but it's not really a huge, huge challenge. It's more, I would say, warehousing issue rather than anything else. No transports have been moved from the warehouses and so on.
So there is nothing really complex going on in the background. There is no people making crazy calls trying to do something about that. It's really just keeping the stock in the warehouse and that's pretty much it. So yes, it is kind of an issue per se, but nothing really complicated, nothing really challenging. Now about the release on again, you rephrase because you broke up a little bit and I didn't hear exactly what was the question.
Mean, the release on Stadia, heard till the point when you said that we moved it to be on the same time when the regular launch was supposed to happen, so the nineteenth November, and I didn't hear what was the actual core of the question.
Yes. Just in the context of you saying about the challenge on launching nine platforms at the same time. Could you explain the decision to make the Stadia launch a bit earlier in this context? So why not keep it after the launch of the other versions to alleviate with this strain on the QA and engineering teams?
Okay. I understand. Stadia actually doesn't really affect the complexity of the issues. I mean, the things we're fixing with our parts of the performance are really much, much, much higher than just Stadia. Stadia is really kind of a PC build, which as Adam mentioned at the very beginning, it's pretty much ready.
So it really doesn't add up. That's why we were able to move it to the PC. But the Polish needed to fix all the bags that we're seeing, quality issues that we're still facing, and we just see that we cannot fix them by the 2019. This is the main and only reason that we're moving the date to the September 10.
Thank We
will take our next question from Robert Blosteckowski with TKOTSI. Please go ahead.
Good evening and thank you for taking my question. A few ones actually. So first, you said that the game is kind of ready for the next gen consoles in the PC and this is and the issue is just about the current generation. So can you maybe say a few words of whether you kind of considered maybe splitting the launch date by new gen or current gen? And the other one is, you confirm whether the situation is just about optimizing so that the game works on current generation efficiently?
Or are there also some kind of glitches that needs to be taken care of over the last those last three weeks before the launch? Thank you.
Okay. I'll take this. It's Michal Novakossi. So I'll start with the release date. We have not considered that splitting the release date.
We're big believers in serving everything at the same time. It's much more reasonable from the perspective of how the team operates, how the team works and it's also convenient from the market perspective. So no, the answer here is no. I would also want to make a comment because you mentioned that the game is prepared for the next gen. It's ready to be played on the next gen.
It's an important distinction because of course our true next gen version is going to come later. But yes, the game can be played from the get go, but I just wanted to be sure that it's understood or not misunderstood. Would say we were that this is a next gen version. Now when you ask about the optimization and so on, I mean, games of that complexity of that magnitude, they always have some backs upon release. Is misunderstood.
This is this is commonplace. Everybody who played any big game out there like like GTA, RDR, which are free, know, any of the big Oovie games, everybody knows there's bound to be some some bugs. It's about the quality and the quantity of these bugs. And this is really the only issue that we have faced. So of course, we're going to continue improving and working on the game once it launches, you know, past the day launch as well as the case with Witcher three as everybody knows.
But it's the launch moment which we want to have where people will not be pestered by something that is going to be truly problematic for them. We want them to avoid those kinds of situations. We want them to enjoy their ride in night cities. And so coming back to your question, yes, it's basically organization and the time necessary for that and all the challenges related to that. But there's no other, I don't know, story here.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Our next question comes from Thomas Rodak with Bose Brokerage. Please go ahead.
Yes. Hi. Good afternoon. I just want to ask three questions. Do you have to pay any contractual fees due to the delay to, I don't know, to distributors or marketing providers due to delaying so close to the debut?
And the second question is about preorders. I wonder what happens to preorders in case of a delay. Are they automatically canceled in some stores? Do you know any stores, any channels that canceled preorders due to a delay? And the third question, you said that the ratio between preorders for Cyberpunk and for The Witcher three is very satisfying.
And I wonder if this justifies three times bigger marketing campaign that you said you're doing for Cyberpunk.
Okay. So I can take the first two. Contractual fees to sorry, it's Michal Novakoski again. The contractual fees due to delay, there is no penalties in our contracts that we would be facing from any of our partners. Is there any other part of that question?
I'm trying to think. I seem to remember there was something else. Was it about the penalties from the retail? I think maybe just the partners. No, there's no penalties from the partners.
I mean, move it's really not that big in terms of time. It's three weeks. So yes, mean, of course, it's going to impact the time we have to sell actively the game this calendar year. That's very obvious. But it really doesn't change the expectations towards the game, the hype, the buzz around that.
It's still something that is there that is in place. So no, there is not only there is no contractual fee, there is no contractual, I would say penalties, there's also no one asking for any kind of penalties. In terms of pre orders getting canceled, this is really super specific to every channel. So if a channel it depends on the channel policy. We don't really control channels and we don't control the particular retailers, what is their policies.
However, I know for a fact that there is no retailer that actually cancel automatically all of the preorders, something of the kind. There might be some retailers that offer you preorder cancellation till the moment of launch. But frankly speaking, this is something that you can do typically with a preorder without a situation like that. I mean, if you wanted to cancel the preorder of our game at Amazon yesterday without the news that you are aware of today, you could have done it without any hassle whatsoever. So this is more of a typical practice.
You can cancel preorder at any moment in time before the game actually launches and ships. So nothing has changed in regard to that. If anything, yes, there may be some people who would actually cancel the preorder right now because, for example, of I don't know, they get tired, but we still think we can win these people back. So as we were talking before, the third one I will actually hand over to Adam.
So the simple answer is yes. I mean, all data we have, internal and external justifies the size of the marketing campaign and actually we might sound not very happy today because it was a tough decision, but on the other hand we are really sure that we have something amazing in our handsets as I said. And we truly believe that once the game is released, everyone will understand how difficult it was and how great the game is. And then all those bitter peels we had to swallow on the way will be just a small thing compared to the satisfaction we'll have. So don't get us wrong.
I mean we are kind of internally on one hand of course stressed, we would prefer to release 2019 definitely. But on the other hand, we feel very, very strong with the game.
Thank you.
Our next question comes from Anton Kamelinsky with L. Bruce Capital Management. Please go ahead.
Hello. Good evening, everyone. My question relates to the momentum maybe of console sales, you know, that may play a bigger role this time around. Do you think that the recent deterioration in economic outlook due to the pandemic might have affected the potential sales due to people may be less incentivized to buy as early as November and maybe by moving closer the day to Christmas, you're optimizing perhaps the potential sales?
It's hard to exactly estimate the influence of the pandemic situation for sales. What we know from the months of March and April was that basically it was kind of a tailwind for the video gaming industry. Video games were amongst those limited number of entertainments that people could enjoy at home. And it's especially boosted the digital sales. So if the situation repeats also at the end of this year, this could be kind of supportive element for the game, but I do not think that's you know, it it depends anyhow on the release happening in November or December.
Right? And how how the pandemic will will start slowly going away from us and that's not the place where we look for sales support in case of cyber funding.
Okay, thanks.
Our next question comes from Robert Berg with Berenberg. Please go ahead.
Hi. Just one question left from me. I think some people would have thought three weeks before the game was quite late in the process to delay a game. But as we head towards the new December 10, date, when do you really need to make a final decision that everything will be ready for that date? And when do you believe it's physically too late to delay a game further?
Is that two weeks before, one week? And just so that we when can we get comfortable the game is definitely coming out? Thanks.
Sorry, this is Michal Nabekowski. We're really analyzing it this way because we see such things happening, to be honest. I mean, and I do realize that you actually heard it from us before, but this is pretty close to launch and well, as we mentioned several times, the game is ready. It's there. You can actually walk through the whole game.
People have done it. A number of people around the world actually that were given the access to the game. It's really about making sure that the performance and glitches are gone. So there is no analysis like that at all. We just haven't thought about that.
Okay. So basically now we can
be comfortable. The game is definitely coming out December 10 is what you're saying?
That's more or less what I'm saying, I guess, yes.
Yes.
Okay. Thanks.
Thank you.
Our next question comes from Ken Rump with Jefferies. Please go ahead.
Hello again. A couple of questions.
One was just to clear up the next gen point that as I understand it, the game will come out on the tenth playable on, say, a PS five, but the actual optimized next gen version is still scheduled for the first quarter of next year for both Xbox and PS five? Second question is, does this have a knock on effect on DLCs? I mean, guess the large parts of the studio can be working on those, but still, the engineering and the QA guys are clearly very busy with this and they're busier for longer than you would have expected. So does this potentially affect the timing of DLCs of which we expect, I think, at least three? Correct me on that.
Thank you.
So with next gen, we are releasing now is the current gen version which can be played on the next gen consoles thanks to the backward compatibility, but without specific features, next gen specific features. But next gen as strong machines can play like very strong, I mean like fairly strong PC. So it has more memory, much faster access to the disk and so on and so on. So the console version played on the next gen, I mean it looks great, I mean instantly. And next year we are releasing full blown next generation not maybe not optimized for next gens but with next gen features implemented.
So fully implemented next generation, which won't be like this one, just emulation of the current gen. The impact on expansions, we expect no impact. Fortunately, those who are finishing the game, those who are now involved in those final processes are not required in this stage of development of expansions. So we don't expect that it will influence anything in our further schedules. Excellent.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Our final question comes from Peter Lopakiak with EKOPD. Please go ahead.
Hello. You mentioned that the problem is with the current gen consoles. Is the problem different for Xbox and PS5 because PS5 sorry, PS4, which is like rumors to be a bit stronger machine? Or is it like very similar for both consoles?
Hi, this is Bjorn Verkovskyken. First of all, I wouldn't say there is a problem because there's nothing wrong with the Xbox or PS4 versions. There is optimization to be handled also because of how we were approaching things from the get go in terms of the development. So there is no problem with the Xbox or or PlayStation four, to be honest. Now in terms of the the the issues, I I don't think I don't think there is much point in going there.
Yes, there are some issues which are similar. I'm not going to go for the full bug report here to be honest because that's probably pointless. But let's put it like this. There is some issues which are common for both platforms. There's some issues which are slightly different.
So it's a mixed bag really. But it's something that's kind of handled, can be done and that's something that we're currently working on. It's a huge gain. So there's a lot of things to be tackled, which is the underlying reason before behind the conversation we're having today.
My question was related to the rumor from one year before, I think,
which said that there is
some problem with optimization for Xbox. But as I understand, this is not related, yes? This
was a total hoax, fake rumor. So that I can say, I can state, but otherwise it's just regular work to be done on both platforms.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you. And I can add one more thing, Karam Kuchinski, having the game certified means it's optimized. I mean, it works, but it's a big game. And what we are going to do in those next couple of weeks is to make it as good as it could be on those on this generation. We are trying to bump everything as much as possible.
Thank you. That concludes today's question and answer session. Mr. Kaczynski, at this time, I will turn the conference to you for any closing remarks.
Thank you everybody. Tomorrow we are available to take any follow-up questions you may have. Please contact our IR team directly via email or via phone. Thank you very much and Q3 results. Bye bye.
Thank you and thank you all for your attention. This concludes today's conference. You may now disconnect.