In a video released today by CD Projekt Red, Polish game developer co-founder Marcin Iwiński apologized publicly for the flawed PS4 and Xbox One performance of Cyberpunk 2077, as well as an explanation of the problems that led to the launch of the game.
In the beginning, referring to Project Red’s policy of being honest with its customers, Iwiński says he and the entire leadership team are ‘deeply sorry’ for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game. did not meet the quality standard. [CDPR] wanted it to meet “.
He further appeals to viewers not to blame the development teams for what happened, but rather to blame Iwiński and the board, whose final decision was to close the game in its current form. release condition.
Dear players, below you will see the personal explanation of CD PROJEKT’s co-founder of what the days before the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 looked like, and the studio’s perspective on the events with the game on old generation consoles is shared. pic.twitter.com/XjdCKizewq13 January 2021
Iwiński continues to cite some of the hardware and technical barriers the team encountered in later stages of development, citing in particular their misleading approach of “making the game look epic on computers, and then adapting it to consoles – especially old gens” and underestimating the hardware gap.
The co-founder then goes on to discuss the company’s future plans and its commitment to solving the problem – “our ultimate goal is to rectify the mistakes and accidents experienced by players on different platforms. Please expect bigger and smaller spots on ‘ on a regular basis “.
To that end, Iwiński proposes a next-year route map showing CDPR’s plans to run patches 1.1 and 1.2 in the coming weeks before launching a series of updates, enhancements, free DLC content and a free next-generation console upgrade in the second half of 2021.
This means that the free DLC that wanted to drop early in the year can be held out a little longer to recover more critical games.
Visit https://t.co/vfY3xxCM1G pic.twitter.com/6U28q8pcVH for more details on the progress of Cyberpunk 2077’s further development, including information on updates and enhancements, free DLCs and more.13 January 2021
Balance delays with expectations
Not only thanks in part to the widespread praise and success of CDPR’s previous AAA title, The Witcher 3, there was a huge amount of hype surrounding the release of Cyberpunk 2077, first released to the world in May 2012 was made with a teaser trailer January of 2013.
This community expectation, coupled with the studio’s grand vision of the scope of the game and its open nature, created tremendous pressure during development, and staff worked overtime at the end of the cycle as the game experienced several delays. .
Since the game was in the pipeline for so long and the release of multiple windows was pushed back, the developer had to balance the loss of community support to further delay the release of the title (especially considering the timing of the launch of the next generation console ) and to polish the game to an acceptable standard.
Now, considering the full refund offer of certain versions of the game and the mixed critical reception, it has finally borne fruit for CDPR to postpone the release of Cyberpunk 2077 even further, until somewhere in 2021.