CD Projekt Red Spent Over $100 Million For Cyberpunk 2077 Post-Launch

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CD Projekt Red knows how to hype up a video game. After their success with The Witcher franchise, the studio brought out another open-world RPG. We traded a medieval fantasy setting for a futuristic cyberpunk dystopia. However, while the game looked incredible and left fans begging for its release, the eventual launch of their latest RPG was nothing short of a disaster. There were so many bugs and poor optimization issues that it even prompted Sony to toss the game off their digital storefront. Fortunately, the developers returned to work and aimed to deliver enough patches and content to turn Cyberpunk 2077 around successfully.

That eventually paid off for CD Projekt Red. The development team brought out a game that matched their standards. It’s certainly a differently viewed game today as fans continue to make comparisons between Cyberpunk 2077 today and the state of Starfield. While developers from CD Projekt Red have gone out to defend Starfield and the Bethesda team, it’s at least a nice change of pace for the developers to see how much fans are highlighting the work that went into Cyberpunk 2077. Still, CD Projekt Red’s turnaround process was long and expensive.

Today, thanks to IGN, we’re finding out that CD Projekt Red spent over $125 million to get Cyberpunk 2077 in the state it’s in today. Now, not all of that budget went strictly to bringing the game up to standards for the platforms it’s available on. Instead, there are a few factors that went into the budget. This includes the next-gen console 2.0 update along with the recent expansion release, Phantom Liberty. All of that warranted the amount of money spent on the game, and again, it looks like this paid off, with the reception being more positive today on