CD Projekt RED is especially pleased with Cyberpunk 2077 proper now, and it is easy to see why. After what can solely politely be described as a troubled launch, the RPG has established itself as one of the important video video games of the final decade.
Cyberpunk 2077‘s victory was solidified by the discharge of the glorious Phantom Liberty growth. And whereas CD Projekt RED has continued to launch updates right here and there for the sport, it was with Phantom Liberty that Cyberpunk 2077 cemented itself as one of many final gaming comeback tales.
Cyberpunk 2077 Through PlayStation Plus Has Been A Hit
It is not too arduous to see why
Cyberpunk 2077 landed on PlayStation Plus Additional just a few months in the past, the place it is gone on to win over much more gamers. It is not arduous to see why. Likely, there have been nonetheless some players a bit twitchy on the considered spending cash on a sport that received such a foul status at launch. PlayStation Plus was a low-risk approach to affirm for themselves what others had been saying: that Cyberpunk 2077 is sensible now.
The newest Q3 outcomes from CD Projekt present that PlayStation Plus has truly been a serious boon to Cyberpunk 2077. Particularly, it is helped promote tons of copies of the Phantom Liberty growth, which is not included with the PlayStation Plus model of the sport.
“Primarily based on information from the primary 4 months of the sport’s availability to subscribers, we see that curiosity within the Cyberpunk franchise on PlayStation stays robust, and that the sport continues to achieve new teams of gamers on that platform,” Co-CEO Michal Nowakowski mentioned.
“Past the direct constructive monetary impression that the PlayStation licensing deal had on our Q3 outcomes, we’re significantly glad to see that many of those new gamers select to purchase the Phantom Liberty growth and develop their adventures in Evening Metropolis.”
CD Projekt chief monetary officer Piotr Nielubowicz added:
“We booked earnings attributable to introducing the bottom version of Cyberpunk to PlayStation Plus Additional and Premium subscription companies, in addition to to gross sales of the Final Version of the sport for Nintendo Swap 2 and Mac platforms. Speaking concerning the Cyberpunk product household, all the above resulted in a greater than twofold improve in revenues in comparison with Q3 2024. This 12 months we generated even increased gross sales and extra earnings than two years in the past, which is when Phantom Liberty was launched.”
Cyberpunk 2077’s Sequel Is On The Manner
Simply… be ready for a wait
Now that Cyberpunk 2077 is the sport it was all the time meant to be, work has begun on the sequel. It is price declaring that The Witcher 4 is the present precedence proper now, although.
With that mentioned, Cyberpunk 2077 remains to be an enormous deal for CD Projekt, and CDPR is staffing up accordingly for work on the sequel as we converse. Whether or not we head again to Evening Metropolis or not stays to be seen, however given the present state of Cyberpunk 2077, I am unable to wait to see what CDPR has discovered, and what we get from the follow-up.
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December 10, 2020
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Nudity, Sturdy Language, Sturdy Sexual Content material, Use of Medicine and Alcohol
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