Is it too late? Hell no. It's been 40 days since the release. If they manage to resolve some of the most glaring issues (police system, driving in general, revamp crafting), optimize the performance and fix the most annoying bugs a lot of people would restart playing just to experience the game as "it was supposed to be released in the first place".
Hell, I haven't touched the game in like two weeks. I started my second playthrough and wasted 30-40 hours wasting every quest, enemy and encounter of any kind in Watson before even visiting Vic for the first time. And now I've registered a forum account and I'm just waiting for the "first big patch".
Then comes modding - if in couple of months CDPR manages to release some modding tools combined with continuous support for the modding community in general it can breathe so much new life in the game. Consider vanilla Skyrim vs how much you can change the game with custom modifications. The thing that kept (and arguably still is) Elder Scrolls V alive for so long is the mod support. Apply the same for CP2077.
I guess that the above does not apply in full for consoles, but I have zero experience with any of those.
If the bugfixes and mod support come in time it should buy enough time for CDPR to work on actual expansions (god I hate the term DLC)
Hell, I haven't touched the game in like two weeks. I started my second playthrough and wasted 30-40 hours wasting every quest, enemy and encounter of any kind in Watson before even visiting Vic for the first time. And now I've registered a forum account and I'm just waiting for the "first big patch".
Then comes modding - if in couple of months CDPR manages to release some modding tools combined with continuous support for the modding community in general it can breathe so much new life in the game. Consider vanilla Skyrim vs how much you can change the game with custom modifications. The thing that kept (and arguably still is) Elder Scrolls V alive for so long is the mod support. Apply the same for CP2077.
I guess that the above does not apply in full for consoles, but I have zero experience with any of those.
If the bugfixes and mod support come in time it should buy enough time for CDPR to work on actual expansions (god I hate the term DLC)