shikamaru317 said:
Mar1217 said:
Well, take it as a bit of wordspread but #Cyberbug 2077 is trending right now.
Seems like console players aren't happy as expected.
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Vocal minority I'm sure. Most people are playing it and enjoying it in spite of the issues, just like they do with Bethesda games on release, which tend to have similarly poor graphics and performance, and lots of bugs on release.
I mean look at sales, they don't seem affected by the controversy at all. On Amazon US, Cyberpunk sold out on both PS and Xbox yesterday, and people are keeping it at #3 PS4 and #12 Xbox on the hourly charts simply by preordering copies of the restock, restock is not expected for 7-10 days it says. You know people are hyped to play it still when they are willing to wait 7-10 days for physical instead of buying digital (CD Projekt does really good physical editions, even include their soundtracks with them).
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I am playing and enjoying it on my Series X as well. Aside from a few graphical glitches, it looks and runs great (playing Quality mode). Also you are correct that they are a vocal minority from what I have seen. Maybe not on the forums, but in a few facebook gaming groups that I posted these issues in, there was a surprising number of people saying it ran fine for them on their gen 8 consoles and that the issues were overblown. I do not agree with them (I think they are in denial), but yeah this game will still sell gangbusters regardless of the controversy.
What disgusts me is not my own experience with the game, I have had no issues. But most people are not lucky enough to have a Series X or a PS5. It genuinely bothers me that they released a game that runs regularly around 15 to 20 fps on the consoles they released and advertised the game on. Had this been a gen 9 console exclusive, the issues that are there would be more forgiving. But this is advertised as a gen 8 game, that only works correctly on gen 9 hardware via BC. It is borderline false advertising as far as I am concerned, and the average joe is not going to realize that a PS4 or X1 game does not run well on a PS4 or X1.
I honestly feel that this should have been pushed back to holiday 2021 and made gen 9 exclusive on consoles. They could have ironed out the bugs and focused on the hardware that can run it, and even avoided the crunch on the developers. But thats just me, and at the end of the day this will be another huge seller for CDPR. Hell if they manage to patch everything to a truly polished state, most may even forget that this was ever even an issue 5 years from now. That doesn't make it right however, and it leaves me feeling conflicted.