Another delay. CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 will miss its expected November 19 release date and is now targeting a release on December 10.
In their official statement, credited to Adam Badowski and Marcin Iwinski, the work needed to prepare the game for 9 different SKUs (PS4, PS4 Pro, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox One X, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC, Stadia) is the reason for the additional delay, where work is now focused on getting the Day 1 patch ready for all the platforms.
The game has since gone gold– which today means that it’s playable from start to finish. Though work still continues to prepare for a Day 1 (or Day 0) patch, which based on a report by Bloomberg, means the developers are taking mandatory extra workday. In other words, crunch.
“[The game going gold] doesn’t mean we stop working on it and raising the quality bar,” the statement reads. “On the contrary, this is the time where many improvements are being made which will then be distributed by a Day 0 patch. This is the time period we undercalculated”.
The first-person RPG taking place in the dark future where corporations rule the world will be coming later than anyone expected. Good news is, November is stacked with big games, and even the launch of next-gen consoles.