Cyberpunk 2077
CD Projekt RED has finally released the PS4 version of Cyberpunk 2077 on the PlayStation Store. The sci-fi game had been removed from Sony's digital store following technical problems with the console version of the game. With the arrival of new updates, however, it seems that the Japanese company has decided to re-enter the game. Furthermore, we can see that the base price of the game has dropped to 49.99 euros: on the Microsoft Store, the game is still on sale for 69.99 euros (at the time of writing).CD Projekt RED, in an official communication , notes that "in addition to the game being available again on PlayStation 4, anyone who purchased the game can also play it on PS5 via backward compatibility. In addition, a free upgrade of the game for PlayStation 5 is coming in the second half of the game. 2021 and will be available to all players of the PS4 version of Cyberpunk 2077, both digital and on disc. This upgrade will allow the title to take advantage of all the advantages of the powerful hardware of the new console. "
Although Cyberpunk 2077 is available again don't forget that there are some problems. Even CD Projekt RED, in its official communication, states that "users may continue to experience performance issues with the PS4 edition as CD Projekt RED works to improve stability on all platforms. Playing on PS4 Pro and PS5 will give access to the best Cyberpunk 2077 experience on PlayStation.
In other words, if you are on PS4 it is still not recommended to buy, even if the base price has dropped. you want to play on PS4), know that Cyberpunk 2077 is on offer for Amazon Prime Day 2021.
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A Major Warning About ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ On PS4
Cyberpunk 2077
Credit: CD Projekt RedThis day was always bound to come without ceremony. When Sony removed Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store in December, it came at a crescendo of video game drama with no equal: a game so broken it barely worked, a developer that sent a legion of consumers demanding refunds from a store, and one pissed-off platform holder. That was then, this is now: the game has now returned to the PlayStation Store even as CD Projekt Red continues work on its troubled opus, but it’s far from fixed. Last week, CD Projekt Red warned that the game would still face major challenges base model PS4, and today Sony re-iterated that warning:
So the warning is simple: probably buy this game unless you have a PS4 Pro or PS5. If you do, expect a rocky experience. This once again marks a development I’m not sure I’ve ever quite seen in the world of gaming, where a company puts a product out for sale and then slaps a warning on it that is most everything short of “don’t buy this”.
As Sony notes, and CDPR has underlined repeatedly, work continues. The PS4 version has improved since launch, and will continue to improve: it remains unclear, now, both when it will launch in something considered a “final” state, or even what that final state might look like. It seems clear that whatever the PS4 version of Cyberpunk 2077 looks like it will not be in line with the developer’s “true” vision of the game, which is currently only available on PC and will eventually come to PS5 and Xbox Series X. But there is a chance it could get to the point where it’s worth playing, and for that, there’s nothing to do but wait and see.
So today’s re-listing is neither the end of something, nor the beginning, just another punctuation mark in a long, arduous story. You never like to see something fail, particularly something as hotly anticipated as Cyberpunk 2077. But the degree to which this thing crashed and burned was monumental even for an industry that has seen its share of trainwrecks, a narrative somehow even more tragic for the fact that the game was pretty good on PC, at least if you had adequate hardware.
My sense, still, is that this game has a future to it. Like other high-profile disasters before it, there is the glimmer of a redemption story somewhere in there. I don’t expect that to happen today, with the re-listing. There are two much larger events coming up, at some point: those are the actual “release” of the game on PS5 and Xbox Series X, and the eventual release of new content. How CDPR chooses to handle those events will largely determine the future of the game, and to a certain degree, the future of the studio.
Disclosure: I bought a small amount of CD Projekt Red Stock earlier in the month, based largely on the reasoning in the last paragraph.