Witcher 3 as game is inferior to Cyberpunk and has worse "police" system, for example.
It's not sandbox. Simple as that.
Level and quest design is way better in Cyberpunk. One of reason why Cyberpunk is superior. If I can ask, what exactly is quest design in Witcher 3? Use Witcher Seneses - follow trail, marks- kill, solve, repaet + some story.
Way you can approach levels and quests (gigs especially, because they can be compared to witcher contracts) it's miles ahead of Witcher 3. There's also a lot more choices, how to deal with quests, gigs, because of more varied gameplay and level design .Tell me what kind of choices player has during prolog of Witcher 3? White Orchard? Quest with two deserters? And... yeah...that's pretty much it.
Side quests...Just compare boxing and racing side quests from both games...yeah
I think Witcher 3 is great game, it's very well written adventure open-world RPG, but Cyberpunk has everything Witcher 3 had + a lot more.
You really think Wither 3 is inferior to CP77?There's important questline from Novigrad cut from Witcher 3, about Radovid, how he took city etc. plus a lot more so deleted content. Didn't notice anything that obvious, how it was in Witcher 3 - quest with Dijkstra was kinda out of place- in Cyberpunk.
"cut content" and deleted content is just nonsense said by people that know little about creative process. Fillmakers can film hundreads of hour of scenes to make 2 hour movie, just like for example Apocalypse Now (edited for 3 years from hundread of hours of fillmed stuff)), Mad Max:Fury Road (edited from 100 hours to 2 hours), but yet people complain when from game which is like 80-100 hours long producer removed 1-2 hours stuff.
about bugs:
but Witcher sold 10 millions during first 12 months, not 12 hours and had more time to build up reputation.
P.S. I don't like The witcher III but i think it's a good game.