Sony and Microsoft are not innocent parties here either. Their game approval process must be pretty lax. Though I guess their major concern is whether software bricks hardware or not, not if it is buggy as hell to play.

Obviously both Sony and Microsoft were eager for the game to release as well, they probably knew the pre-order numbers, hell they both sell the game through their online stores. I doubt one wanted a situation where they denied approval and the other still allowed the game to release, essentially giving up timed exclusivity. Also there were marketing deals in place likely. Did Microsoft release that Cyberpunk branded Xbox One?

As someone with no interest in the game whatsoever who has avoided all hype materials for this game over the past few years, this is an amusing meltdown. I feel bad for gamers who were excited though.

True enough. In fact, this may actually be the case. Unfortunately, we'll never know, because in order to become the CEO of a big corporation you must be able to sell your own mother if success depends on it xD

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CD Projekt did a good job with Switcher 3, though. It's always run solidly for me and has never crashed. And until they put out an update that allowed you to share save files with the PC version, the entire game was on one 32GB cartridge with no install file. 

A team that size can make a game in 3 years, but not Cyberpunk, which is what you seemed to be implying. I already told you that those first 3 years of work got scrapped. It's an 8 year project technically, but really only 5 years since they scrapped those early years work by moving to a new build of the engine. It's not like they had the full 500 devs on the project the entire 8 years. From what I'm reading, they not only scrapped the first 3 years of work, they also didn't move any devs over from the Witcher team to the Cyberpunk team until Witcher 3's Blood And Wine expansion was finished in mid 2016.

So, Cyberpunk development looks something like this from what I can find:

That being said, there were development issues obviously. I mean Cyberpunk got about 1 more year of development than Witcher 3, with a dev team that was twice the size by the end, and somehow the game is shorter, buggier, and broken on consoles at release. There was some kind of mismanagement happening, that much is for sure.

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Nice post. Of course absolutely NOTHING justifies what they did, lie and hide the problems and release the game anyway, does not matter if it was forced by shareholders or not. But yeah, you cant compare it with the release cycle of for example, assassins creed or call of duty which are basically well oiled machines of releasing games. You cant also compare the 8 years of "development" of this game with the 3-4 years of development of other open world games. Cyberpunk had basically 4-5 years of pre production and 3 years of production.

Still, nothing justifies what they did, on purpose. Still I cant wait to play it, probably on February after the big patches because it seems to be really amazing. Also this game will definitely have long legs, multiplayer, dlc's and I truly believe they will pull out a game as service model at some point juts like GTA 5. We will still be talking about cyberpunk 4 years down the road.

If you take 5 years on pre-production and 3 years on production while having revealed the game 8 years ago and from what some devs have said they were in death march crunchy for almost 2 years yes you can point out a lot of fingers at CDPR management. They put themselves in this situation.