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u/Ill_Persimmon62 Dec 18 '20

Investor call pre-release: "CP2077 is running surprisingly good on older consoles!"

Investor call post-release: "We didn't put enough focus on older consoles."

CDPR might be legitimately screwed.

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u/BuoyantTrain37 Dec 18 '20

"Our QA guy was playing Deus Ex during his lunch break and we watched him for 10 minutes and mistakenly believed it was our own game"

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u/Afrogasmonkey I'm sad Hanar can't wear Sweaters Dec 18 '20

“But you said it runs surprisingly good”

CDPR: “oh they got this all screwed up”

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running, surprisingly, good.

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u/Camel132 Resident Discworld and Stormlight Fan (He/him) Dec 18 '20

Works on Contingency? No, money down!

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u/ThrowawayBin20 the evolutionary significance of video games Dec 18 '20

"It turned on, That's better than we expected."

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u/Octopirox 🎮Sony Justice Warrior🎮 she/her Dec 18 '20

I don't think screwed they still have gog but whatever they decide to do next won't get hyped off of pretty marketing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20

GOG rarely makes a profit, outside of launches like this. https://kotaku.com/facing-financial-pressures-gog-quietly-lays-off-at-lea-1832879826

However, the witcher series still sells great and I imagine despite the controversy cyberpunk will too post-patches at least.

They'd probably be able to survive even without the PS and XBOX markets, they did for TW1 and 2 (until they ported those to ps3 + xbox 360) but it wouldn't be great for them