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Rumor: Cyberpunk delayed because of current gen console performance.
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If I recall correctly, didn't most cross-gen titles run like hot trash on X360 and PS3?
I do have a question for people here. Would you buy this game on PS4 or Xbox One if it ran at 720p-30fps (stable) ?
I do have a question for people here. Would you buy this game on PS4 or Xbox One if it ran at 720p-30fps (stable) ?
Yeah, my wild guess here is that they want to have the game reviewed on the new consoles, so they're moving it to september so it can be a launch game while also delivering something that is as good as they can do it on the old consoles.
Question is, why move it now? Was one of the consoles originally planned to launch in april but got moved forward? hmmm
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That doesn't mean that they can't be overly ambitious. Hell, Witcher 3's performance on consoles wasn't anything to write home about and this game not only looks better than that, it is more complex overall based on what they've said. It's time for new hardware as the current run is struggling.
Obviously they'd have difficulties getting the game to run properly on base consoles, game looks like it will melt cpus. However, delaying the game a few months for this reason having started development some many years ago targeting current gen is a bit weird to me, I'm sure more factors are to blame here.
Given its budget it is understandable that they want to sell it to the 150mn PS4 and Xbox One owners, too.
A few lessons from this unfortunate scenario...
- Next-gen consoles can't come soon enough.
- CDPR should really announce for next gen already, or at least soft-confirm it, the game looked like a next gen title in scope. I mean, of course it's coming. Instead they are just leaving the idea in the wind. I hope they aren't trying to do a Rock Star style double-dip. Internally, collectively they must know it's too late and too close to try that.
- Base model Xbox and PS4 really should be treated like 7-8 year old machines at this point. Still have one? You are going to have a bad time with some titles. Imagine having a 7 year old phone. But unfortunately, MS/Sony continue to sell that crap to this day. If they had phased them out a bit, and had just made the pro machines their go-to item the last year or so, at least a lsser percentage of people would be having a bad time with Cyberpunk and the like.
xDWhen you're a PC player and don't have to worry about current gen consoles.
but right now, they are that homeless cousin that refuses to get help. we're stuck with them for like another year.
It wouldn't be the first time something like this happened. Dying Light was originally announced for the PS3/360 along with current-gen consoles. They eventually had to drop the last-gen versions because they just couldn't get it to run properly. Now i'm not saying that they're going to drop the current-gen versions of Cyberpunk. But it illustrates how the design of a last-gen game can start to outpace what's possible on current-gen platforms. And with Cyberpunk, they've never shown the game running on anything but high-end PC's.
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Honestly i don't want to know how games like Cyberpunk and Dying Light 2 run on base consoles. There is a reason why all we have seen from both of these was running on PC. Next-gen consoles should come out like yesterday.
This makes no sense. Consoles have been around since the beginning of the development, and NOW they discover that they aren't powerful enough to run the game properly? Rotfl
Games will never be developed for only the best gaming rigs in mind, because then they would sell 100.000 copies max.
It would be really interesting if this is the first ever current gen game to not release on the base consoles. Wonder how people would react.
that is not going to happen, console manufacturers are mandating base console support.
What's the difference between first and third party games when first party games are also aiming multiple platforms? It just shows that ambitious games like Cyberpunk are particularly difficult to develop for base Xbox One. And Cyberpunk's development started with the current generation in mind to begin with. If MS publishes a game of Cyberpunk's complexity to all platforms then you'll have a point.
Nintendo knows a thing or two about not releasing games on base consoles. For instance, Xenoblade Chronicles on New 3DS.
Exactly. That's why it's a stupid take to say that PC players don't have to worry about current gen consoles. If there's one group that has to worry about current gen consoles, it's PC owners and later this year next gen console owners. There's a reason the first Crysis still looks better than some games today.
Microsoft and Sony doesn't allow for PS4 Pro/XBX exclusive games, it's in their compliance policies.
My guess is they already have trouble with getting to 720p @ constant 30fps on XBOX One.
If Boskee is to be believed then this has more to do with the platform holders not approving than CDPR. Besides that, none of the games I have worked on have actively been pushing for a good a experience on all platforms during development, that usually happens at the very end of development, when you know that you aren't adding more features and no more targets needs to be reached. If the game ran on all platforms during most of development at all, that'd be considered a win.
because when CP2077 comes out they'll be MS first party as I imagine E3 is when they'll announce the buyout.
Yeah, but like I said earlier in the thread, it's a good example of how games of Cyberpunk's scope and ambition will be kneecapped by holding onto hardware that wasn't even able to hit 1080p on most games back when it came out.
Also, if a game in development during most of this generation is struggling to run on it, imagine how much you'll have to hold back games designed with the next generation in mind.
Fuck it, make it 480p just for the memes.
For real though how are they even gonna tackle this? Delay sure, but how?
Is it like PC where you can just turn off AA & v-sync to increase performance?
A lot of people were voicing concerns about the game running on last gen hardware after the reveal.
I don't think it's a coincidence the two titles this year looking to make a sizeable leap in terms of reactivity, detail, and the scope of player freedom & choice have both been delayed(Dying Light 2 being the other).
I don't think it's a coincidence the two titles this year looking to make a sizeable leap in terms of reactivity, detail, and the scope of player freedom & choice have both been delayed(Dying Light 2 being the other).
So...?
This also applies to TW3 and yet they had to cut down on it's fidelity resulting in that big downgrade.
This.
Even if the source is not credible, this is so obvious.
I won't play Cyberpunk on anything less than PS5 / Xbox Series X anyway.
Called it since a long time, so I am not really surprised.
I think people needs to be prepared for an eventual other delay. No matter what, the result we probably be really bad.
That's what you get when PC is your lead platform and you try to squeeze it in potato actual gen.
I think people needs to be prepared for an eventual other delay. No matter what, the result we probably be really bad.
That's what you get when PC is your lead platform and you try to squeeze it in potato actual gen.
I can't ever see this happening thanks to the huge user base of the base consoles. Issues that are blatant to us more than likely won't be major to the regular audience as long as the game is playable. I wouldn't be surprised to see resolutions under 900p on the base consoles.
Not sure I understand this. There have been games that have ran poorly on the original PS4 and Xbox One ever since the systems were released. If anything a game like Cyberpunk would show the power & benefits of the new consoles instead of the opposite, and were statements like this made due to the fear of the opposite in the first place?
I thought that developers could easy as pie just scale everything down, no problems. Isn't that what the defenders of Xbox no nextgen exclusives policy have been saying?
