According to IGN, CD Projekt Red has announced The Witcher 3 Remastered, which will be released as a free upgrade for all existing owners on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on September 29, 2026. The article states that the remastered version will not be offered for the current Nintendo Switch 1 edition, but a separate Switch 2‑native version will be sold; owners of the Switch 1 version will be able to claim that version for free. The remastered game will also be made available on PC via Battle.net for the first time, where purchasing it will unlock a Geralt‑themed skin in Diablo 4. The article notes that both the remastered edition and the base game, as of today, will include access to the first two expansions at no additional charge, preceding the arrival of the third expansion, Songs of the Past, slated for 2027. The IGN piece lists a range of enhancements coming to the remaster: tweaked combat, improved traversal and movement, revamped mount handling, enhanced monster behaviors, a skill‑tree revamp, armor transmog, an expanded photo mode, new finishers, cross‑platform mod support, new quest tracking, immersive meditation, refined animations, UI improvements, a looting rework, refreshed motion blur, new accessibility features, a tutorial modernization, HDR improvements, foliage shading rework, ray‑tracing improvements, a global lighting rework, a new shading model, subsurface scattering, and a new tone mapper. Additional platform‑specific notes include PlayStation 5 Pro support, Xbox Play Anywhere, and unspecified Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive features. On PC, the remaster will support Nvidia DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR 4, Intel XESS 2.0, path tracing, ray reconstruction, native DX12 and rendering parallelization, along with ray‑traced hair. The article also mentions that Songs of the Past will feature more Gwent, the series’ card game, and confirms that The Witcher 4, a Ciri‑led sequel, is targeting a 2028 release window, with over 500 developers reportedly working on it. No details about Witcher 4 were shown at the event, but CD Projekt Red joint CEO Michał Nowakowski was quoted previously as saying the sequel is aiming for a 2028 launch and remains “very much still in the oven.” All factual claims are drawn from the IGN article provided as the source.
