CD Projekt RED Has No Plans for a Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 Pro Patch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 January 2025 / 2,443 Views
CD Projekt RED via Twitter announced it has no plans to release a PlayStation 5 Pro patch for Cyberpunk 2077.
"We currently have no plans for PS5 Pro patch," reads the tweet from the official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account.
The PS5 Pro released on November 7 for $699.99 / £699.99 / €799.99 / ¥119,980. At launch there were 55 games that were enhanced on the mid-generation upgrade to the PlayStation 5.
Launch week sales for the PS5 Pro in the US are similar were similar to launch sales of the PS4 Pro. The PS5 Pro sold 78,086 units in its launch week in Japan and 10,100 units in Spain.
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They have no obligation to go back and devote a few months to an older game when they are working on new games.
Yeah, and not to mention, they would go back to an engine they've already retired.
Makes sense, they're busy working on the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, and Witcher 4.
They done enough to update the game already, it's super polished and such a wildly better experience than launch, it's fine to play on performance mode. It doesn't need updating, I want all gas, no breaks on The Witcher 4.
Too bad. This would be my #1 game where I'd want to see Pro support. Understand that the team has moved on, though.
Probably tired of updating the game at this point and want to move on.
Should not be a surprise to anyone, as CD Projekt RED has announced months ago that they have fully moved on from Cyberpunk 2077 to both its sequel and The Witcher 4. And both of those games are being developed in Unreal Engine 5, as opposed to the RED Engine that Cyberpunk 2077 uses. Doesn't make any sense to put in work on PS5 Pro optimizations and getting PSSR running on the RED Engine, when none of that work will benefit their future games.
With the way Sony did them at launch they shouldn't bother.
What did Sony do at launch?
Sony delisting the game shortly after launching and not allowing purchases until 2021 devalued the stock by an estimated 50%, which resulted in CD Project Red losing tens of millions of dollars. Other platforms did not delist the title.
The game was broken beyond belief and people are mass requesting refunds anyway. Also it was not on PS5 yet it was on PS4.
Yeah, Sony did the right thing with refunds, and as well as making the difficult call of temporary delisting the game (though I think a disclaimer and allowing the continuing sales of the game would have been acceptable and less damaging to the brand), I'm just saying those decisions led to massive losses and CD Project Red doesn't have any incentive to offer the patch for the Pro. A patch would be nice for people who have purchased the Pro, but I doubt people are purchasing the Pro for an enhanced version of Cyber Punk.
I was just trying to view things from CD's perspective in saying they likely felt jilted and still harbor some hurt.
But I do understand that games should not be released in terrible states that has become the norm. Messages do need to be sent to publishers/developers.
Don't get me wrong, I do agree with you that they have zero obligation. I'd prefer new games over wasted time on upgrades of what is now a 4 year old one.
But I also see no fault in Sony's actions, it helped no one leaving it available really, and would think CD Project not doing it because of something petty when they spent time fixing it and adding dualsense controller options to the PS5 versions shows they still care about the income they can earn from a Sony platform.
Maybe CD should not have hyped the game to the moon only to launch a broken game that took 3 years to get into a stable state. Maybe should have delayed the game and only launched on 9th gen consoles and PC. Not like they don't own GoG and could spit out a TW3 remaster/ports to make some cash to make up for the delay or anything.
I actually applaud Sony for doing that since the game launched in an embarrassing state and releasing games in a broken manner should not be tolerated or celebrated.
Essay Pro