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Cyberpunk 2077 has already sold very well, but those who play on their original PS4 and Xbox Ones have reported major issues with resolution, frame rate, inserting textures, and more.
Many Twitch and social media users are documenting the performance of the game on their older machines, and the results are often not pretty. Perhaps the most notable comparison is the meme below (taken from a broadcast by GamekultLive, around the 1:01:00 mark):
welcome to # Cyberpunk2077 on PS4 fat / XBO! pic.twitter.com/77BSmEuw6y
– Legolas (@Legolas) December 9, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 is currently a next-gen game on console (although it does benefit from next-gen hardware enhancements), and has been announced as such, but was never shown pre-release on original PS4 and Xbox One units.
While it’s not unexpected that Cyberpunk made graphical trade-offs to run on older console models, the level that fidelity drops to has surprised and disappointed many.
This is Cyberpunk 2077 – PS4 version 1.00. The resolution is literally below 720p and the game takes 20 seconds to load in textures. Inexcusable. Fathomless. Unplayable. pic.twitter.com/AZ2OPTnkdL
– Michael Does Life (@MichaelDoesLife) December 9, 2020
On both consoles, users report long waits for textures to load, a blurring effect across the entire screen, and major drops in frame rate. Bugs are also still prevalent, with players reporting NPCs posing in T, no mouth movement in conversations and glitchy animations:
Cyberpunk 2077 on base consoles (how a large% of people will play it) is an absolute sham.
OMG I mean look at how those two npcs ran in the end, they were like the spider-man ship ps4 ps2 easter egg. pic.twitter.com/FnSRgAgDgt
– AP (@ THEAP99) December 8, 2020
Widespread reports of glitches, particularly on PS4, have also circulated:
This is what’s happening on the base PS4 consoles, who else? pic.twitter.com/JaQxq7svBB
– YouWhoKnow_KnewNot (@UwhoKnowKnewNot) December 10, 2020
It’s unclear if all of the above examples are running with the Day One patch installed, though some players (including Kotaku) report that they don’t seem to have been able to download it at all. However, our own Xbox One base footage is updated to the Day One version, and it has moments where textures don’t load and the frame rate drops (particularly in the montage sequence towards the end):
While CD Projekt Red has not directly commented on the issues, Cyberpunk’s Twitter account said today: “The journey has just begun and we are working hard on the upcoming game fixes and updates.”
We are truly honored that so many of you have trusted us and decided to support # Cyberpunk2077 before launch! Even 8 million thanks is not enough! The journey has just begun and we are hard at work on the next game fixes and updates. See you in Night City! pic.twitter.com/ycIe2kN0Zq
– Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) December 10, 2020
CD Projekt Red provided multiple patches for their latest open world game, The Witcher 3, which had its own litany of bugs. It will be fascinating to see how much work can be done on the console versions, especially while the next-gen versions are still in development.
For more information on Cyberpunk, check out our review of the game and access our huge Cyberpunk 2077 guide, which includes a full walkthrough of the campaign.
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