Everybody’s headed back to Night City
Following its return to PlayStation Store last month, CD Projekt RED’s troubled RPGCyberpunk 2077is back on its golden road, immediately becomingthe best-selling digital PS4 titlein Europe, Canada, and North America.Cyberpunk 2077was re-released on PSN, (albeit accompanied by abrand new warning), on June 21 following a six-month hiatus.
CDPR continues to roll outpatches and hotfixesin an effort to get the console editions ofCyberpunk 2077into a far superior shape than it was on its December 2020 release — a launchso notoriously botchedthat it led to a slew of bad press, internet memes, lawsuits, and publishers such as Sony washing its hands of the game entirely. It should be noted that none of the above controversies hit CDPR in the wallet too hard, withCyberpunk 2077hittingover 13 million salesacross PS4, PC, and Xbox One, recouping its costs in a matter of days and becoming the publisher’s biggest release ever — even with refunds taken into account.
It seems that, despite the PSN in-store disclaimer,Cyberpunk 2077has picked up right from where it left off: raking in sales. CD Projekt RED has stated that it believes the last-gen console editions of the hi-tech adventure are now in a “satisfactory” condition, and so one would assume that work is set to continue on the PS5 and Xbox Series X ports of the game, which are scheduled for release at a later date. Clearly, theCyberpunk 2077story is not onlyfarfrom over, but the franchise will continue to print money well into the gaming’s ninth generation.
