CD Projekt RED has delayed Cyberpunk 2077 again. May? No. September? No. The first-person action-RPG comes at a later date.

The Poles explain everything in a conference call. Let’s see what Adam Kicinski, the head of CD Projekt RED, has to say. „As for launching next to next gens, we’re not worried about it. This generation is different in a way from how the move from PlayStation 3 to PlayStation 4, from Xbox 360 to Xbox One was happening back in the day in a way that there is a from start, from scratch. There is cross-gen compatibility both on PlayStation and Xbox. There is a hardware enhancement of the games, so for current-gen games, if there is engineering work done behind them, it will be playable, you know from the get-go, on both consoles. So, we look at it more as an opportunity because we’re going to be targeting both the owners of the current-gen consoles and the next-gen consoles. And we’re hoping to be the biggest, or one of the biggest, releases in that time frame, and that definitely can help because there’s going to be additional traffic and interest in video games around that time frame. That’s the perception,” he says.

What about the compatibility and upgrades on the next-gen consoles (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X)? „Cyberpunk 2077 will be running on both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 from the launch date, just as it will run on the current Xbox and the next Xbox from day one. It will look better on the next-generation consoles from day one. The technicalities behind it are a little bit different from what [the question] described, but probably no point in going into detail about that. And I can confirm this is not the final update. At some point, we’re going to have a more robust update for the next-gen, which we’re planning to give free of charge to anybody who purchases the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One version, but in any case, you will be able to play the game on the next-gens from the 19th of November when the game releases, and it will look better than on the next-gens from that moment. […] To be honest, we don’t know [when we will release the more robust update] yet, as we haven’t decided on a precise date for next-gen. We are sure that we will deliver it next year, but it was not even internally planned for a certain day, so it’s hard to say whether there is a potential delay of the next-gen,” he added.

However, the delay pushes the expansions and the multiplayer back, too: „We haven’t specifically mentioned the number of DLCs—we prefer to call them expansions as the bigger than the typical DLCs—but of course, the fact that the launch of Cyberpunk has been moved will in proportion move the release of such potential expansions. We have not actually made any specific announcements on when that is planned, but since these are being developed—these are not any carved out pieces we keep in the drawer, so to say—they have to be made, they will happen later. Now when it comes to the multiplayer expansion, its launch is going to be proportionally delayed as well. Although multiplayer is a bit more distant anyway, so that’s a bit of a thing of the future anyway,” Kicinski says.

Cyberpunk 2077’s Twitter account also posted that the next-gen consoles will be supported from day 1, and that the next-gen upgrade will arrive at a later date, for free.

Cyberpunk 2077 launches on November 19 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, and PC. The PlayStation 5 (which has been rumoured to launch on November 20…) and the Xbox Series X will support it out of the box, but their upgrade will come at a later point.

Source: Gematsu

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