It had a bad start, mainly due to the problems that its version for old-gen consoles presented, but in the end Cyberpunk 2077 was a complete success, and its sequel is fully confirmed by CD Projekt RED. The Polish studio said that the initial phase of development will begin in 2024, and that this new installment “will unleash the full potential of the cyberpunk universe.”

According to CD Projekt RED, if all goes according to plan, the initial phase of research and development, which will be key to being able to start development on the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, will take place in early 2024, although they warn that there may be some delays. If all goes well, it is likely that this game will be released in the final phase of the life cycle of the current generation of consoles, i.e. between 2027 and 2028, While this is only indicative, it’s still nothing official.

I find the comment that this volume will “unleash the full potential” of the universe that CD Projekt RED created with Cyberpunk 2077 very interesting, and that we can get a lot of information by reading between the lines. On the one hand, it is more than clear that the original deliveries ofand was burdened by the old generation console version.

Yes, I mean Xbox One and PS4, and the point is that in the end, the limitations that these consoles impose on the hardware level greatly affected the development of Cyberpunk 2077. I will not elaborate on this topic, because we already touched on that time in this article, where we saw that the problem wasn’t just optimization, but trying to bring a demanding game like this to two consoles that had hardware that well below the minimum requirements.

With the sequel Cyberpunk 2077, we will no longer have this problem, CD Projekt RED refers to this. this title will be developed based on current generation consoles, and given the release date it will have, it is likely that it will also be optimized to take advantage of the potential of the PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X Next.

So we can expect significant technical improvements over the previous version and I am sure of that NVIDIA and CD Projekt RED will collaborate again introduce advanced ray tracing as well as optimizations and performance improvement technologies like the current version that supports DLSS 2 and DLSS 3.

This sequel will develop CD Projekt studios are located in Boston and Vancouver, and we will have to wait a few years for the first images with real game scenes. All in all, I think the first expansion for Cyberpunk 2077 will allow us to get an idea of what we can expect as this DLC will be exclusive to PS5, Xbox Series XS and PC.