Older Release Date and General Speculation Thread.

[Zagor-Te-Nay]

For the record, I totally didn't fall for it.

 

[Sardukhar]

For the record, I totally didn't fall for it.

Uh huh. I followed you to Reddit and corrected Dion there as well.

 

[Edo34]

Welp...that's what happens when you are really desperate to get some info...

 

[EmperorZorn]

As long as it's released before 2077, I don't mind waiting for a great Cyberpunk game~

 

[Viperswhip]

Bloodlines has news updates that kind of track and inform your progress through the game, I'd like at least something similar for this game.

 

[Maelcom404]

For over two decades, the Megacorporations have ruled the world from their starscraper towers, enforcing that control with armies of cyborg assassins. While the boostergangs roamed a shattered urban wilderness, the endless party went on 24-7 in the hottest clubs, sleaziest bars and meanest streets this side of the Postholocaust.

...Wait, postholo-what?

But that was before the Crash; before the dark days of 203X. Now the battlefield belongs to the new Lords of the Street: the DNA-shape shifting Reefers vs the full-body cyborgs of Corpore Metal, Desnai's robo-enhanced mechajocks against the monster makers of Riptide, the nano-boosted road warriors of Rolling State against the cybertech megaweapons of the urban Edgerunners.

 

[Claylex]

What I'm really curious about is the "DNA shape-shifting reefers"

Are they mutants? Are they freaks of nature? I know its all a speculative plot but already I'm kinda worried.

 

[Sardukhar]

What I'm really curious about is the "DNA shape-shifting reefers"

Are they mutants? Are they freaks of nature? I know its all a speculative plot but already I'm kinda worried.

Clay. It's not a speculative plot. It's from 203X, the Cyberpunk 3rd Gen game that CDPR is not using.

 

[Claylex]

Clay. It's not a speculative plot. It's from 203X, the Cyberpunk 3rd Gen game that CDPR is not using.

Ah okay, didn't know that.

 

[braindancer12]

As long as it's released before 2077, I don't mind waiting for a great Cyberpunk game~

 

[metalmaniac21]

As long as it's released before 2077, I don't mind waiting for a great Cyberpunk game~

Considering that in that CDPR's 2017-2021 plans pdf CP2077 goes first,more likely it will be released before 2021.

 

[animalfather]

The game was first annouced in 2012?

 

[Tarathelion]

The game was first annouced in 2012?

Yes

 

[animalfather]

Yes

although it had a skeleton crew working on it since 2012 maybe even before that. i doubt full production went into full gear before w3 came out. but ya if this game comes out ca 2019-ish it will be one of the longer dev cycles out there.

 

[Calistarius]

Think I have said this befor here... but I would asume that CDPR will follow their standard timetable of main game releses (I do not take into account the expansions here).

That being:

Witcher 1 - 2007
Witcher 2 - 2011
Witcher 3 - 2015

And following that logic, I would expect Cyberpunk 2077 to come out somewhere in/around of 2019.

So... just 2-3 more years to go... where I asume that we will not really get much info on the game untill maybe 2018-2019... maybe, just maybe, a few minor things in 2017... but the big things will probably not show up untill mid 2018, or even as late as mid 2019. XD But... this is just a wild guess from my part... but I am probably somewhere in the ballpark of what it will end up being.

 

[metalmaniac21]

And following that logic, I would expect Cyberpunk 2077 to come out somewhere in/around of 2019.

2019? Lame. 2020 is - a nice reference to CP2020, symbolic, a cool number, and a shitload of time to make the best RPG (skipping the preproduction phase as it's already done) ever and care for promotion and avoiding falling into the same pit VtM:B did while also being ze-best-rpg-ever. But sadly, money are finite resource. Not to mention that The Witcher 3 could come out faster, in 2014, when CDPR took the courtesy to tweak it more. Twice.

 

[animalfather]

I dont mind the game coming out in 2021 even. if it makes the better. also the first game will take the longest to make cause they are making a template from scratch.

 

[Calistarius]

2019? Lame. 2020 is - a nice reference to CP2020, symbolic, a cool number, and a shitload of time to make the best RPG (skipping the preproduction phase as it's already done) ever and care for promotion and avoiding falling into the same pit VtM:B did while also being ze-best-rpg-ever. But sadly, money are finite resource. Not to mention that The Witcher 3 could come out faster, in 2014, when CDPR took the courtesy to tweak it more. Twice.

Heh... I think I have at some point during the last 3 years also writen that it would be pretty cool if they waited till 2020 just for the sake of it... I mean they missed the 2013 CP reference...

No... wait... they did'nt... 2013 is the year that they finally released the teaser trailer... so... They went out and did the main reveal of the game in 2013 (even if they had talked about it befor then I seem to recall) which is what the 1st edition of CP was called "Cyberpunk 2013"... and then 7 years later they could release the game on 2020 refering to the 2nd ed of the game. Then they have another 7 years befor their sequal to it since the 3rd ed of Cyberpunk takes place in 2027. XD

 

[NightSavior]

Think I have said this befor here... but I would asume that CDPR will follow their standard timetable of main game releses (I do not take into account the expansions here).

That being:

Witcher 1 - 2007
Witcher 2 - 2011
Witcher 3 - 2015

And following that logic, I would expect Cyberpunk 2077 to come out somewhere in/around of 2019.

So... just 2-3 more years to go... where I asume that we will not really get much info on the game untill maybe 2018-2019... maybe, just maybe, a few minor things in 2017... but the big things will probably not show up untill mid 2018, or even as late as mid 2019. XD But... this is just a wild guess from my part... but I am probably somewhere in the ballpark of what it will end up being.

This sounds like pretty reasonable to me but it's missing couple factors.

Firstly, CDPR has started another developer team to handle CP2077 already in 2013. Of course, development times in modern AAA games tend to stretch so 2019 is a very valid guess. What makes me suspect an earlier release is the information CDPR provided in March about them planning on releasing another AAA game before 2021. Two games before 2021 wouldn't fit that 4-years-per-game cycle so at least it's not a schedule CDPR is planning on.

 

[Suhiira]

You need to keep in mind they've added a fair amount of employees. They presumably started planning/predevelopment in CP 2077 in 2013 and full development shortly after W3 was released. The advantage of a longer predevelopment cycle is you already know what you want to see in the game and have probably prototyped the major systems. Does this mean I expect a 2017 release? Probably not. But I don't think 2018 is improbable.