Video games have grown a lot since their inception, and that includes being grown in regards to how long it take to make them. While some of the first games ever took mere weeks to get done, the biggest games of this generation take years to make, and gamers more or less accept that. However, for CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077, it’s been in development for 6 years so far, and we still don’t have a release date for it yet. Why is it taking so long?
This is the question that was asked of co-founder Marcin Iwiński by Kotaku, who not only gave the answer, but denied that the game had been “rebooted” at some point in time:
“I wouldn’t call it a reboot, but we were changing directions, and actually we were looking for the substance of the game,” said Iwiński “It is super difficult when you’re establishing a new IP, because you can do whatever you want to do, but at the same time you’re always questioning yourself. The process of this internal dialogue – or sometimes even like a monologue happening in people’s heads – it is very difficult and hard because you don’t know, is it going to be cool or not?
He went on:
“Then you come back and say, ‘No, I thought it’d be cool, but it’s not anymore, so we have to change the direction.’ Then you have to explain it to people. Then the team is larger, there are new people who might not understand how it works.”
Cyberpunk 2077 is set to be larger than The Witcher series, which was pretty massive by the time they got to Wild Hunt. And they’re giving players a lot of freedom with this new title. So yeah, it’ll take time to develop, but it’ll be worth it when it releases.
