Beyond the base video game, CD Project RED confirms that the multiplayer mode is also delayed until a date away from the year 2020.
CD Projekt RED has confirmed that the delay of Cyberpunk 2077 until next September also affects the multiplayer mode, which was so far under development for an undetermined date. The information has been revealed through a press conference where the Polish study confirms the question of an investor that this mode will be begged until after 2021.
"Given the expected release of Cyberpunk 2077 for this month of September, and given that we are talking about a series of events that we expect to occur after that date, 2021 is unlikely for the release date of the Cyberpunk multiplayer mode," he says. Michal Nowakowski, member of the business and sales management team of CD Projekt RED at the meeting, which took place on January 16.
PS5 and Xbox Series X knock on doors: no version for now
That “series of events” that will take place shortly after the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (also Stadia coming soon) are inevitably the new Sony and Microsoft, PS5 and Xbox home consoles, whose first model of The range is already known, Xbox Series X.
Recently, the authors of the famous saga The Witcher have not declined to respond to those who ask about a possible adaptation of the video game to PS5 and Xbox Series X, although at this time they do not think about it: "It is a possibility."
Not surprisingly, that multiplayer mode of Cyberpunk 2077 refers to the version of the title for current generation systems, which is not an obstacle for that new date of the same after 2021 coincides with a global release that covers both the systems of the current one as of the next generation by the dates on which this modality will reach the market; over a year after the next generation has begun.
In any case, CD Projekt RED has not specified the approximate date as the objective of the multiplayer mode of Cyberpunk 2077; Nor if this change of plans affects a possible version for the next consoles that are to come.
There is something that is certain: the multiplayer mode of Cyberpunk 2077 is being developed in parallel, as an independent AAA project that is part of the title, but is not intended to be as much an addition but an experience in itself.
Cyberpunk 2077 will go on sale on PS4, Xbox One and PC on September 17.
