The Witcher 3's Songs of the Past Expansion Surfaces - Minus Any of the Details That Matter

CD Projekt Red has let a room full of journalists watch footage of Songs of the Past, its new expansion for The Witcher 3, complete with a new region and a cameo from everyone’s favourite indestructible horse. What it hasn’t done, at least according to the write-up published on Xbox Wire, is confirm anything you’d actually need to know if you want to plan around buying it.

What’s actually confirmed

The concrete facts here are thin but real. Songs of the Past is being built by Polish studio Fool’s Theory working alongside original developer CD Projekt Red, and it’s set in a previously unseen region called Letten. Geralt is back, and so is Roach, reintroduced to a press audience in a theatre screening with enough fanfare that Xbox Wire’s editor-in-chief, Joe Skrebels, describes the crowd reaction as somewhere between a gasp and a cheer.

That’s essentially the entirety of the hard information in the piece. It confirms the expansion is real, names its developers, and names one location within it. Beyond that, the article is largely a first-person account of what it felt like to sit in a room and watch a decade-old game’s world come back to life on screen - which is a perfectly reasonable thing for a journalist to write about, but it isn’t the same as news you can act on.

What’s still missing

There’s no release date attached to Songs of the Past in this preview. There’s no price. And crucially, there’s no confirmation of which platforms it’ll land on - an important gap given The Witcher 3 itself is available across Xbox, PlayStation, PC and Switch, and expansions for games this size don’t always arrive everywhere simultaneously or at the same time. Nothing in the source material states whether this is a paid DLC pack, a free update, or something in between.

It’s also worth flagging that this reads as a preview event write-up rather than a formal product announcement with a press release attached. Outlets were shown footage and reacted to it; that’s a marketing beat, not a specifications sheet. Anyone treating “new expansion revealed” as equivalent to “here’s when and how you can play it” is getting ahead of what’s actually been said.

So who should care right now

If you’re a Witcher 3 obsessive who’s replayed Wild Hunt more times than you’d like to admit, this is good news in the sense that more content for the game is coming and real developers are working on it. If you’re waiting to decide whether to pick up a console or subscription specifically for this, there’s nothing here to base that decision on yet - no date to circle, no price to budget for, no platform list to check against what you own.

The takeaway

Songs of the Past is a genuine, in-development expansion with named developers and a named location, which is more than rumour. But the practical questions - when, where, and for how much - remain entirely open. Treat this as confirmation that the project exists and is far enough along to show footage of, not as confirmation of anything you can actually plan your wallet or your calendar around. That detail, presumably, comes later.