CD Projekt Red Admits It Didn't Spend Enough Time On Cyberpunk 2077 For PS4/Xbox One

It was originally suppose to launch before PS5 and Series-X were even in the stores. How could they spend too little time optimizing it for the generation of consoles it was suppose to launch on?

Gamers are such a toxic, crybaby community. They are so spoiled, its unreal.

If you are a game company and you don't make an absolutely perfect game, the entire community will turn against you, in the blink of an eye. No matter how many other great games you have made.

Also, if you are going to cry about how many hours the workers have to work to make a game (crunching). Don't cry when the games aren't perfect. That's what they were trying to accomplish before you stopped them. They were working on your unrealistically high expectations for the game.

As glitchy as the game is it's still better than Mass Effect Andromeda. EA deserves more flaming Torches. And yet they slip by with their loot boxes and shady practices.

Gamespot's review score doesn't seem that crazy now in retrospect. The review & the reviewer herself got a lot of heat for that score and I'm wondering what people are thinking now. IGN had to do a separate review for Cyberpunk for PS4 & XBOX1 and gave that a 4. That's pretty damning for such a revered developer. Basically, the game is unplayable on base hardware, which is by far the biggest user base in the world right now. Not many people playing on brand spanking new PS5's.

What can I say, game over-reached it's goals and delivered something that will only become something decent after numerous patches, which seems to be the norm these days. I didn't preorder this and I doubt I will ever actually play it anyway. A real shame but it's definitely tarnished CD Projekt Red's reputation.

They know that most people are forgiving anyway. It's just a game at the end of the day.

They should have waited and released it in Jan/Feb on console and just released PC early is the bottom line.

They knew this from the start and took advantage of people because they relied on the fact Witcher 3 turned out to be such a well respected product. People seem to forget how rocky that game's launch was on PC too. Roach wouldn't even jump over a fence.

The bottom line is we need to stop falling for pre-orders and weak promises. Do not pay for anything up front without at least a playable demo available so you know what you are in for.

They already took steps prior to the launch to ensure they wouldn't be losing big at the launch time of the game. They were aware of what would happen to the stock but they are just as aware come February the stock prices will all rise back up again anyway.

The only people out of pocket it seems is those that bought it on PlayStation store due to them being total scumbags about refunds.

This is either the dumbest cop-out in the recent history of gaming, or it's a brilliant commentary on the themes presented in Cyberpunk as a genre.

Probably the former, I don't think anyone is quite clever enough to pull off the latter.

Its clear to me that cd project red is toying with consumers, what they are saying does not make sense. Cyberpunk is in development for many years now, the next gen consoles just arrived, so this was a game meant to be played for ps4 and xbox one, so they had more than enough time to optimize the game for these consoles. Plus we must not forget that both the ps4 and xbox one are very powerful consoles and that is proven by the fact that we have played games on these consoles that were very impressive technically speaking with spectacular graphics, so i don't think that these consoles couldn't run a game like cyberpunk well, we experienced games in this generation like gears 5, last of us part 2, ghost of tsushima,horizon zero dawn, forza horizon 3 and 4 and so on and on, games that we played on the base ps4 and xbox one and they were and still are impressive to witness, so its apparent to me that cd project red did something seriously wrong and only they know exactly what that is, but lying to their customers and bringing forth excuses that do not make sense makes things even worse. They even said to the dissatisfied ps4 and xbox one users out there that they could get a refund for the game without even having agreed such a thing with either Microsoft or Sony, which is another thing that shows that they cannot be trusted.

The last of the mighty has fallen. And people were whining about the low score. LOL. The game is buggy on PC as well. Almost a decade in development and they couldn't take the time to work on it for consoles that were the current gen for most of that development. Sure.

The game should have never been released on PS4 and Xbox One. This game should have been a next generation exclusive. This is one thing I miss about the "good old days" when the next generation had its own games. You did not see Mario World or F-Zero on the NES. This is what new generations are for. You play games that you could not play on previous consoles. The game was hyped for no reason other than the developer behind it. Everyone knew it was going to sell regardless of how good the game was or what state the game was in at launch. People have the attitude of "it is an open world game, we should be happy the game runs on the system at all." If you cannot make a game run on particular hardware, then do not do it. Simple as that. This is why crossgen games are annoying. Make games for specific hardware that can run them well and don't force games on hardware that can't run them.

I'm confused by this. If development really did start 8 years ago, (I'm doubting the veracity of that claim now), then you would think that over half of the development would have been spent on previous gen consoles.

Somewhat hard to believe CDPR lately as relates to this game.

I am curious to see what kind of garbage they had by the time of the first delay decision...

So they didn't feel any pressure to release the game in the state they did, but did it anyway? Are they aware that this doesn't make them look any better? I'd really like to hear what their ultimate reason was for releasing the game in such a broken state because there is no way they could not have known about it.

I also don't see the point in talking about performance issues when the game is filled with bugs on all platforms. How's a next gen console or a $5000 PC supposed to protect you from those?

And what's this crap about some certification process? There's been plenty of equally or even worse games than Cyberpunk and all of them seem to have somehow made it through that "certification process". Seems like as long as you can boot the game up at least once it will pass the certification.

You could argue about all circumstances leading to this mess on base systems.

You let SOME of you customers down period, hopefully it doesn't tarnish your business too much and those customers don't vote with their wallet next time.

Some people were cheated, they knew it, CDPR had a plan to do it, that's why no review codes for consoles were dished out.

Lame

Fix it and stop crying wolf

The stock was overvalued, this is just a correction.

They had 8 years. No excuses.

this is what happen when "board" and or stock "holders" push thing cause there inpatient and dont let the dev say when it dont and when it will be ready.

I dont blame the dev I blame board and stock holder pushing unrealistic deadlines

Aren't most people playing it on a PS4 & Xbox One?? They should know this & should have focused their time there!

The game was first announced back at the beginning of the eighth generation, and now their excuse is that "they didn't spend enough time on it"? Give me a break.

I just have to be honest. I'm in early Act II and I have been having a blast with just a few minor glitches and bugs infrequently. I'm playing on the One X and it got even better after the hot fix 1.04. I completely understand the frustration though for those that have had it bad.

Hopefully CDPR fixes things going forward and the game reaches it's full potential.

This should have stayed pc and next gen consoles. Probably got greedy

They didn't spend enough time on any of the versions to be frank.

Developers have their challenges because of too many plattforms. three PS plattforms, two or three Xbox platforms. PC, Stadia.. its a mess..