Forward of its launch, Cyberpunk 2077 had the potential to be probably the most impactful and vital video games within the business’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 unimaginable 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 could possibly transfer on, and transfer on it has, because the Polish developer reported in its newest quarterly earnings name that there is no such thing as a one left at CDPR engaged on Cyberpunk 2077.
Because the 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 underneath its codename Polaris, for the reason that 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 venture Orion. No less than, that’s the story the numbers look like telling, for the reason that quantity of individuals engaged on Polaris hasn’t elevated by 17.
The Cyberpunk world CD Projekt RED created with the primary sport will after all proceed with the sequel, however this new breakdown of sources feels, no less than 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 troublesome path to its full redemption in September 2023 is a narrative that maintained the complete consideration of the video games business because it unfolded.
Now that CDPR has moved on, perhaps all of us now can too.
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