The head of the Krakow division of CD Projekt RED, John Mamais, recently gave an extensive interview In which touched for Cyberpunk 2077. He also again raised the issue of the potential release of the project on next-generation consoles and Nintendo Switch.
Cyberpunk 2077 is CD Projekt RED's next big action role-playing game based on the board game Cyberpunk 2020. It looks like the project may be too big to be ported to the Nintendo Switch, as was done with - at least that’s what Mamais said.
“No, as far as I know,” he said in response to a question about the existence of plans to port Cyberpunk 2077 to the Nintendo Switch console. — I'm not sure that Cyberpunk 2077 will be able to run on Nintendo Switch. The project may be too heavy for this system. But, again, we transferred the third part of The Witcher to Switch, although we thought that the project would be too heavy - somehow we coped with this task.”
We're on the cusp of the next generation of consoles, which are expected to bring significant improvements in performance and capabilities (including high-speed SSD storage, 8K support, and hardware ray tracing). In the same interview, Mamais confirmed that the Cyberpunk 2077 developers are not optimizing the game for the next generation of gaming systems: “We are focusing on the current generation.” This means that the game will be able to run at up to 4K resolution on Xbox One X or PS4 Pro, but for now the studio is not concerned with the capabilities of the next generation of gaming systems.
Interestingly, not so long ago the reason Polish insider Boris Nieśpielak explained exactly for current generation consoles. If this is the case, then porting to Switch will indeed be extremely difficult to achieve. Immediately after the transfer, the developers , which is currently focused on launching the game for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
Cyberpunk 2077 is currently scheduled to release on September 17, 2020 for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Google Stadia. As CD Projekt RED itself warned, a multiplayer mode is unlikely to appear in the game .
Source: 3dnews.ru