In the end they started development of cyberpunk immediately after the studio finished the witcher iii s blood and wine dlc. However the witcher iii ended up taking all of their resources to develop. Cd projekt red originally planned to develop cyberpunk 2077 alongside the witcher iii.
The biggest element of the long development cycle of cyberpunk 2077 however is that the game did go through a reboot and ended up changing directions with the fact that cd projekt red is self. The cyberpunk 2077 development cycle has been rather opaque but we did have hints about when cd projekt began working on their new rpg thanks to hidden messages in the game s e3 trailer. Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay follows the rules of the cyberpunk 2020 rpg system created by mike pondsmith at this point cyberpunk 2077 should be content and feature complete playable from start.
According to eurogamer poland. John paul jones march 11 2020. Witcher ps5 development to start after cyberpunk 2077 launches.
Cyberpunk 2077 development is far from over by andy chalk 08 march 2019 a new creating cyberpunk video suggests that we might be waiting for longer than we think. He revealed that it would be a. A new witcher game will begin development right after work finishes on cyberpunk 2077 cd projekt president adam kiciĆski told journalists in a recent meeting.
Though unclear work on cyberpunk 2077 has been going on for quite some time. Cyberpunk 2077 s development didn t start in earnest until after witcher 3. Nearly seven years of development time in the making expectations are extremely high for cyberpunk 2077 which finally releases this fall.
A timeline of cyberpunk 2077 s development. Adapted from the cyberpunk franchise the story takes place in dystopian night city an open world with six distinct regions. Cyberpunk 2077 is an upcoming role playing video game developed and published by cd projekt it is scheduled to be released for playstation 4 windows and xbox one in november 2020 stadia by the end of the year and playstation 5 and xbox series x in 2021.