Forward of its launch, Cyberpunk 2077 had the potential to be one of the vital 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 probably the most tricked-out PC.
Greater than three and a half years later, a complete revamp of the sport’s development system and a DLC growth that’s arguably higher than the base-game’s marketing campaign, and Cyberpunk 2077 is total an unimaginable RPG, although it’s impression has been felt in methods CD Projekt RED by no means actually meant.
What issues is that CDPR is in a spot the place it might transfer on, and transfer on it has, because the Polish developer reported in its newest quarterly earnings name that there isn’t a one left at CDPR engaged on Cyberpunk 2077.
For the reason that starting of Might, the varied groups throughout CDPR have left Cyberpunk 2077 behind, and extra focus has been put towards The Witcher 4, proven within the slide beneath its codename Polaris, because the official title has but to be revealed.
What’s fascinating to notice is that it seems the builders beforehand engaged on Cyberpunk 2077 have been moved to to its sequel, at present codenamed venture Orion. No less than, that’s the story the numbers look 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 sport will in fact proceed with the sequel, however this new breakdown of sources feels, at the least partly, like the tip 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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