Yesterday, we informed you about a new delay for Cyberpunk 2077. And today, CD Projekt’s CEO, Adam Kicinski, shared some additional details about this delay. According to Kicinski, the game is ready on the PC, and the main reason behind this latest delay is due to the game’s current-gen version.
As Adam Kicinski said during a conference call:
“This situation is different compared to previous changes to the deadline. The game for PC is ready and plays well on next-gen consoles and the company is finalizing the process concerning current-gen consoles.”
What this basically means is that the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 is ready to ship. However, and in order to release all versions at the same time, the team decided to also delay it. From the looks of it, CD Projekt RED will solely focus on improving the performance of Cyberpunk 2077 on current-gen consoles.
Cyberpunk 2077 will support both Ray Tracing and DLSS 2.0. CD Projekt RED will be using Ray Tracing in order to improve Diffuse Illumination, Reflections, Ambient Occlusion and Shadows. Cyberpunk 2077 will be a DX12-only game, and will only work on Windows 7 and Windows 10.
Stay tuned for more!
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Then release it on PC.
These consoles are dragging whole industry down. I hope consoles fail this gen so PC master race can relax and breath….
You can release a game to console first, and then eventually port it to PC later.
You can’t release a game to PC first, and then eventually release it on consoles later.
Apparently, no one will buy it on the console at that point. And Microsoft and Sony would throw a tantrum.
That’s the way the cookie crumbles, I guess.
their greed is dragging them down
and also getting ahead of themselves time and again , biting off more than they can chew
With the amount of PS5 sales in the first 12 hours, which exceeded the amount of PS4s sold over 12 weeks, I somehow doubt it.
I don’t understand modern gamer mentality, so no wonder I don’t understand this as well.
Consoles have always dragged PC gaming down. It never ends.
But their game sales also fund game development. Can’t have one without the other. PC alone doesn’t generate enough game sales to warrant AAA games.
That’s not true.
The Witcher 3 overall sales as of April 2020:
PC: 12 million
PlayStation 4: 10.8 million Xbox One: 4.3 million Nintendo Switch: 0.7 million.
PC alone makes up for 76% of all consoles combined.
One outlier doesn’t make a rule.
Never said it does. But in this case it’s their own game they released previously. So they can do staggered release and still end up massively in the black. They just want to maximize it as much as possible, greedy bastards.
And it never will.
That will never happen. You have to look at it like this; People that play on pc are actual fans of games and enjoy playing them. Console people are posers and casuals who claim to be fans and just like to complain.
It is like somebody who only watches The Superbowl and claims to be a football fan compared to somebody who watches every single game.
I’m a football fan and never heard about this big bowl thing.
What is it?
I do not know if you are being sarcastic or not. I will humor your question, though. It is the championship game for North American Football.
Release it on PC then? :/
Yeah and keep that promised date… instead of pushing it back thus end up lying!
I do not think they can do that. They have a marketing deal with Microsoft.
The most idiotic statement from a leader. He should’ve just kept his mouth shut for heaven’s sake. What a doomA$$, I say people refund their pre-orders and purchase the game a year later. Only idiots pre-order digital content anyways, but besides that, I have a point.
Well the thing is that some publishers / dev’s do good games and care about their customers and are as such are a safe bet to pre purchase from. The day they break that trust they wont get an pre-purchase anymore.
I know a certain publisher/dev that will see this with their next game….
Pre-orders is giving Publishers/Developers the reason to think that they can release a game with bugs sometimes to the point that the game is broken and fix it later after most people paying full price have played it and moved on. It’s gotten ridiculous at this point.
You can shout it from the hilltops to stop pre-ordering but people will still do it.
“You can shout it from the hilltops to stop pre-ordering but people will still do it.”, I think i’m starting to lose my voice and nothing will ever change because as much as we like to blame the big bad corporations, the government and the boogeyman; the worse one of them all is WE THE PEOPLE! That’s why every time i talk to an elder i ask, “how do you do it. How do you like 80+ years and strangle anyone o death or just lose your mind all together”. Oh boy i tell ya, agree my friend, agreed.
Or just make it only for nextgen consoles? Hello?
nope CDPR stated recently Cyberpunk is not nextgen title so expect every version to be downgraded to ps4 just like they did with Witcher 3.
And now the devs are getting death threats from some unhinged morons. Jesus, death threats are unacceptable, even if they cancel the freaking game.
I usually don’t believe those claims: A game gets a massive backlash, then a dev comes to twitter crying about threats for simpathy points. They had one job.
And if the threats are true, of course…people are stupid, is just a videogame at the end of the day.
I’ve been around long enough to believe those claims.
Of course you do…
what on earth are you on about, do you have to be a p*ssy a*s cuck 24/7?
Yep. CDPR can fu?? right off with that last gen console pandering, their greed, their constant lies. Hopefully their reputation as this “Jesus of the gaming industry” will come crashing down upon them.
nope, when it releases next year (i bet they will delay it more) retards will buy it and say its best game ever even if it turn out to be clunky FPS as was shown and what everyone who played it on shows actually felt.
As the saying goes, “Dance with the girl that brought you.”
I smell something funny
What you smell is bull sh*t. I’m disappointed in CDPR and they have lost some of my respect over this.
A smelly smell
Such foolishness. Developers have no problems delaying a PC release for months, even a year. Yet we are forced to wait for the current gen consoles. Give me a break.
Hold on let me check something
Marvel avengers release dates
ps4/xbone/pc september 4
ps5/xbox x 2021
Cloudpunk pc april 23
consoles octomber 15
watchdogs legion ps4/xbone/pc/stadia octomber 29
xbox x november 10
ps5
november 12
dirt5 pc, ps5, xbone november 6
Xbox x 10 november
plastation 5 12 november
stadia 2021
maneater pc, ps4, xbone 22 may
xbox x 10 november
ps5
us 12 november
eu 19 november
switch 2021
assasin creed valhala pc, ps4, xbone ,xbox, stadia novembr 10
PlayStation 5
NA: November 12, 2020
AU: November 12, 2020
EU: November 19, 2020
“right” i totally believe em.
“Buying games at launch gets you the worst experience at high price” – TotalBiscuit
And he is 100% right. That’s why I never do it. I have been posting this for years and years but I don’t know if anyone has ever listened to me.
The hype culture and lack of patience are doing it.
It never should’ve been “current gen” those shitboxes can’t do anything these days.
It really baffles me that the devs thought a game as ambitious as this could be run on a base ps4 or xbone!! They are now paying the price and I am seriously considering cancelling my pre order.
Why would I say I have a pre order if don’t? Lol that makes no sense. I have a pre order on Amazon for the PC version currently.
Ok well thats not true, why would i pre order a game i have no interest in? My reason for cancelling is because by the game comes out, I will need to be focusing on spending the holidays with my family and taking care of moving details and selling things. I wont have time to play it until mid to late February or possibly march when i get things set back up.
It’s all about timing now. No point in having a game pre ordered I’m not going to be able to play. By the time I will play it it’ll probably be close to half off lol
So here we have a company that runs a service dedicated to PC gaming (GOG) that won’t show a damn bit of respect for PC gaming and just release the game on PC because they fear the console gamers would be offended if they didn’t get a release at the same time as PC?
Adam Kici?ski stand up for PC gamers or bend over for console gamers. I won’t buy another game on GOG if you continue this duplicity.
I don’t want to defend them but they probably know that GOG games are readily pirated compared to consoles.
And? add DRM (they already are OK with having games with it in their store)…is not like is gonna do a difference.
There’s no justification for this, specially when consoles do get temporal exclusivity of games (if they get a release to PC for starters).
I agree it’s not a justification, maybe just a consideration to maximise sales. Any other reason makes zero sense and the resulting damage to their reputation would be an idiotic risk to take.
Yeah, sure!
Maximize sales delaying games and making people ask for a refund.
It’s just moronic to state that.
W3 sales are proof that piracy is not a problem and having DRM or not changes nothing in overall sales.
http://www.cdprojekt.com/en/media/news/mutual-respect-and-tolerance-are-the-foundation-of-creativity-and-innovation-interview-with-adam-kicinski-and-adam-badowski/
Just be more tolerant
They always release games on consoles first and PC second.
How about we do it the other way around this time, let the peasant starve
Before The Witcher 3, they were a pc first centric company.
Sorry, I meant like in general, about the industry as a whole
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they did a Witcher 2 remaster and based it off the Xbox 360 version. Crytek and CDPR…I guess the high horse can’t live forever
Good dear Mr. CEO, we PC gamer is also in a different situation now as we are also holding back on our wallet for the time being and solely focusing on Steam summer sale to grab your game with bunch of other games. Meanwhile, lick those console bowls if you will.
Good
dear Mr. CEO, we PC gamers are also in a different situation now as we are
also holding back on our wallet for the time being and solely focusing
on Steam summer sale to grab your game with bunch of other games.
Meanwhile, lick those console bowls if you will.
Edit: DAMN!! CDPR stock price are crashing down since morning
https://i.ibb.co/VvJ4JrX/damn.png
are they expecting to get awards or prizes for simultaneous 9 platforms release or what!?
Seriously man! at this point it looks like the management is emphasising more on the simultaneous release feat. as they repeatedly stated no more delays plan your release weekends and preorder if you will no more delays.
They only reward they will claim for that is idiocy imo… If they did it staged that would have meant the dev team could have a couple of days focus per platform to iron out the biggest bugs before it got released on the next, now the sh*t will hit the fan on all at once – Expect the patches to arrive in lets just say untimely manner due to stupidity.
Don’t pay attention to this (unless you want to invest). Its stock price will recover and go higher once the game releases.
yes, I liked the fact that market is possibly showing repercussion to the pre-order cancellation wave on both GOG and Steam. Has to be some kind of financial impact even if negligible.
Wait for it. Right now everything is on a life line. When government incentives and checks are going to stop, bankrupcy will happen for many, sadly.
When that happens DJI and TSX will tank because of incertainty and we’ll then see a healthy recover over the course of 2-4 years depending on your investments 🙂
so dumb.
Are you aware DJI dropped 2,9% ? Their stock didn’t drop +/-9% solely based on the fact that they pushed back 4 weeks a product. Investors aren’t that gullible.
idiotic statement from a CEO, if it’s ready on PC, well release it on the go* d**n f***g PC
you own GOG for f**** sake
wouldn’t be ironic if it’s buggy on release day
Might release on PS3, Xbox360, Switch and PSVita while you at it.
So their being stupid as bricks and don’t care about doing it as smoothly as possible, staged when releasing on several platforms means more resources are available to fix the major issues as they crop up rather than get drowned in them if releasing on all at once.
Bet Sony cried and wanted it on the conslow release not a day after PC, they done it before.
they loose my respect
Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor had no problem releasing day 1 on PC/PS4/XOne and delaying PS3/X360.
So, this is just incompentence. 7 years from the teaser trailer…and after 7 years of working with current gen consoles (Witcher 3 and the development of CP77) they are aware that they can’t shove their “next gen” game in them.
How the hell you take 4 years of development, and in your plans you figure at the last moment that current consoles may be an issue due to their limitations? You either design the game from that, or just scrap them (and loss tons of money for your idiocy) and move on to next gen.
It seems like the downgrade is gonna be huge or the game will run like sh*t (probably both).
Consoles holding back videogames, and this is a explicit example of that.
I agree with everything except for that last bit. consoles are the reason why such games can even exist.
their incompetent engine is also to blame
they downgraded TW3 on the same flimsy pretext. it’s a pretty lame excuse
they should have learned their lesson
But PC had a lot of exclusives which are better than any console games.
to be fair consoles have games like Nioh 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Xenoblade series, brevely default, fire emblem and so on, those are million times better then any recent PC exclusive. In fact name one good PC exclusive game in recent years? I play mainly on PC but lets be honest exclusive wise consoles are in whole other dimension compared to PC
Nioh 2 is coming to PC, and for the rest: all of them but Ghost of Sushi you can emulate them in fairly good states already.
I dont think PC games only are considered exclusives to begin with, they aren’t certainly sold that way (that’s just the marketing tool consoles have to fuel the dumb console wars notion and justify their existence at some point).
Captain here…
Flight Simulator
*flies away in 4k@60fps and alt+tab
that’s simply too reductive, partial and clearly biased.
Marketing wise, maybe. Even when PC games-ports sells are rising every year afaik.If you think in terms of reaching a wider costumer base, yes.
With this particular game, you are absolute right, 9 platforms to release it is evidence of that…still my point stands, the delay was because of consoles (and downgrades forcing platform parity is always a topic of discussion every time a port comes out, fairly recently in CDPR’s case).
Why PC should suffer the delay too? is beyond my cynical view of their justification.
that’s true, however no body made that decision for them, they did it themselves
and here I was thinking they had left “greed” to the others
Ironic right? but no, this sounds like they wanted at first try to do a double dipping like Rockstar did with GTA V. But that would be against their PR, so they just go ahead and tried to do everything at once (classic CDPR trying to bite more than they can chew) in a clearly amateurish move, the lack of planning is baffling if you don’t have a fresh memory of how CDPR deals with making games.
This is already a sh*tshow. hopefully after all this we get a decent game like in Witcher 3 case, if not…the damage to CDPR is gonna be huge (is already hurt with moves like this one)
Glassdoor reviews about piss-poor leadership again prove true.
I said it yesterday and ill say it again today…consoles holding us back yet again, what a shocker….
People started to refund it (Steam), including my self. This is what happened when you treat PC users as 2nd class citizens. I’m gonna get it for like 20e from re-sellers, since i’m 1000% sure, actual release going to happen at 2021.
Kicinski in PR damage limitation mode following yesterday’s CDPR debacle of their own making!
They always push back PC releases upwards to a year and let consoles play on release (even early sometimes) but when it’s the opposite they’ll gladly make us wait.
PC company catering to consoles. I’m not surprised just disappointed.
Invalid reason CDPR. You lost me as a potential customer.
Remember when Witcher was Only On PC 😀
CD Projekt’s CEO: Cyberpunk 2077 is ready on PC, delay due to current-gen consoles
Impossible,Consoles are and always where the apex of gaming hardware……lies all lies!!!!
F*king consoles… release it now on all platform. Patch console versions later differently.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/02cfeb5eb8d7b1fbc6d963fb09453239aa41a9ca635d1dec545f0ee543d7a283.jpg
I call that bullfvckingshiet!
If that was the problem, they would release the PC version and delay the console one a few days.
I don’t really care, but I don’t like devs that can’t predict how much time they need to finish a job, it’s like they don’t know what they’re doing.
LOL
Obviously you are so arrogant and edgy to actually know anything about this matter of subject, aren’t you? PC has always been behind Consoles, fìat least
For example, PC Games couldn’t side scroll like Super Mario on the NES, until Carmack did write a software solution to go past this limitation. They (ID Soft) eventually built the first Doom from this.
Also, this has to be the worst community ever. Every single comment is a Troll, or a flame. Or worse.
Why are you so salty to begin with? And why are you so ignorant on this materia, yet flaming the comment section like only your (wrong) opinion matters? You really need to understand that for someone coming from the outside like me, this website looks doomed.