Forward of its launch, Cyberpunk 2077 had the potential to be some of the impactful and vital video games within the trade’s historical past. It had such promise, and when it arrived in late 2020 it solely fulfilled that promise to anybody wealthy or fortunate sufficient to have essentially the most tricked-out PC.
Greater than three and a half years later, a whole revamp of the sport’s development system and a DLC enlargement that’s arguably higher than the base-game’s marketing campaign, and Cyberpunk 2077 is total an unbelievable RPG, although it’s affect has been felt in methods CD Projekt RED by no means actually supposed.
What issues is that CDPR is in a spot the place it will possibly transfer on, and transfer on it has, because the Polish developer reported in its newest quarterly earnings name that there isn’t any one left at CDPR engaged on Cyberpunk 2077.
Because the starting of Might, the assorted groups throughout CDPR have left Cyberpunk 2077 behind, and extra focus has been put towards The Witcher 4, proven within the slide below its codename Polaris, because the official title has but to be revealed.
What’s attention-grabbing to notice is that it seems the builders beforehand engaged on Cyberpunk 2077 have been moved to to its sequel, presently codenamed undertaking Orion. At the least, that’s the story the numbers seem like telling, because the quantity of individuals engaged on Polaris hasn’t elevated by 17.
The Cyberpunk world CD Projekt RED created with the primary recreation will after all proceed with the sequel, however this new breakdown of sources feels, not less than partially, like the top of an period.
Followers waited over a decade for Cyberpunk 2077, and when it arrived it couldn’t even be performed on the consoles it was introduced for. The saga round its launch and the tough path to its full redemption in September 2023 is a narrative that maintained the complete consideration of the video games trade because it unfolded.
Now that CDPR has moved on, possibly all of us now can too.
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