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Rumor: Cyberpunk delayed because of current gen console performance.
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The real version will probably be the sequel. The next gen version will still be smaller in scope due to Jaguar and HDD constraints.
What? This is absurd! I heard so many times in the last few days, how easy it is to scale a game down. Can't they just press a button and it will do it automatically, or something?
When you're a PC player and don't have to worry about current gen consoles performance when the game drops.
Go 'head, grandma. I see you girl!
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I would say for people who want Halo Infinite and any other game not to suffer because of similar reasons, instead be build around not completely outdated hardware, it is an issue.
It'll even run on the switch! just scale it down, have you seen the Witcher 3!
It might also be a horrible business releasing a sub par version of your long awaited game and receiving blowback and irreparably damaging your brand.
Microsoft don't allow releases just on Xbox One X. Sony are the same with the PS4 Pro. We've confirmation in both cases but we don't even really need that - if they allowed it, we'd have seen it happen by now.
They're not going to want to fragment their releases any more than they absolutely have to.
Glad it never came a thing, TT stuff is below mediocre for most of their output. Then CDPR made it themselves with Thronebreaker.
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So how many advanced simulation systems etc. they have to totally gut if not discard some to get the game running on base boxes?
Delaying to September isn't going to magically make the game run better without deep compromises. Whatever releases on PS4/Xbox One won't be cyber punk.
I wouldn't be surprised. I've always wondered how they were going to deliver the experience we've seen at trade shows on a base Xbox One. It just seems insane to me.
It's clearly a very ambitious title with a lot of complex near-field detail and interactions. It's one thing to offer a large world but doing so at the density and detail exhibited here is quite another.
It's clearly a very ambitious title with a lot of complex near-field detail and interactions. It's one thing to offer a large world but doing so at the density and detail exhibited here is quite another.
Yeah, screw Lockhart, if the rumours are true it could hold the entire next gen back.
Cyberpunk could either have been a) 'better', all else equal, or b) delivered in a shorter timeframe and/or with less crunch and/or on a smaller budget if it could have hypothetically, let go of lower platform requirements.
Of course it can't, for economic reasons, but that's the argument for 'pushing' the market on to higher end hardware, so more and more devs can economically enjoy the benefit of higher powered devices installed in the market. It's the argument that still stands at the end of the day, for all the positives of cross gen support for some consumers, and all the after-the-fact Switch port-miracles in the world etc. etc.
Surely it's just going to look like an MS Paint rendition at wildly varying frames per second
Obviously they've put too much development & marketing resources into current gen to renege now, but they absolutely would've been fine had they shifted to Next Gen only before the reveal.
This is CDPR, Cyberpunk would see nearly a 1:1 attach rate on both consoles throughout the launch window and sell steadily for years, on top of massive sales on PC.
This is CDPR, Cyberpunk would see nearly a 1:1 attach rate on both consoles throughout the launch window and sell steadily for years, on top of massive sales on PC.
So you're telling me they were far too ambitious for a current gen game? Nuts.
Isn't Lockhart projected to have the same CPU as the higher-end SKU, just a lesser GPU? If so, shouldn't be a problem.
CPU scaling is likely the culprit.
Well, it's not the visuals that I'm worried about, per se. It's everything else. I'm very curious how they're tackling this issue. It's definitely one of the most exciting games for that reason as it's likely to stress those older machines pretty hard.
I suppose not since it's being made for those platforms but, based on the demos, it seems more ambitious in terms of density and scale than any other comparable game this gen.
why would they though? Like be real here that Xbox thing is what, 2 years max? I just don't get the big deal that people cry about on here over it. I'm just expecting things to be scaled accordingly.
This shit is gonna be so ridiculously downgraded by release. LOD, textures, initial load times...it's all gonna be sacrificed for acceptable performance.
Next gen transition can't come soon enough.
Seriously? This is a thread about current gen holding back a game.
Seriously? This is a thread about current gen holding back a game.
In a perfect world they wouldn't have to limit their ambitions to the capabilities of current gen consoles. They just can't afford to leave all that money on the table.
Thought next-gen would get bogged down by past-gen, but apparently we might be getting a bit of the vice versa as well. Old consoles not being particularly compatible with games striving to move on to next-gen ambitions. Which is how this transitional period should be, really. Preferable to HD ports.
Shame about the PC version possibly pointlessly getting dragged into this delay then though.
Shame about the PC version possibly pointlessly getting dragged into this delay then though.
I don't know about the source, but I'm not surprised. I'll just hold off on getting a copy when I get my XSX.
Honestly,I've had this pegged as a PS5 game since it's first E3 trailer....never had any intention of playing it on my base PS4.I hope they get it to an acceptable level for the millions that will be playing on base consoles though.
The reason for most games being delayed is because the team haven't had enough time to optimise the game for whatever reason. The Cyberpunk delay is not a special case in that regard.
It would be like speculating that TLOU2 had to be delayed because its development process was hamstrung by base PS4 tech.
This year will be interesting because we are going to have a range of highly polish-ed/ambitious last-gen games and (videos of) the first wave of next-gen games.
the issues didn't just show up. Optimization is one of the last things you do. They were probably hoping for it to be fixed at some point in winter
