In one of probably many dissections of CD Project Red’s erroneous mistakes Cyberpunk 2077, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier has just published a piece exploring the development of the game. His reporting does not support rumors about the forum thread on Keanu Reeves, but it is the more ongoing issue of unrealistic development timelines and the weakening of the console’s hardware limitations.
As outlined in the article, the company, although announced in 2012, was still focused The Witcher 3 and ‘full development’ only started in 2016 when CD Project Red ‘pressed the reset button.’ The game’s impressive E3 2018 demo is described as ‘almost completely fake’. Despite promises from the leadership that the emergency would not be necessary, developers still felt pressured to work long hours, and when the spring launch date of 2020 was announced, they began betting on when it would slow down. .