Futuristic Cyberpunk Gets Stuck in 2020 as Bugs Derail Launch
- Sony pulls CD Projekt’s new game, Microsoft offers refund
- Stock has erased about $5 billion of its value in two weeks
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Despite its 2077 setting, this year’s biggest video-game release is turning out to be a disaster most befitting 2020.
The futuristic role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077 has suffered an ever-widening backlash in the days since this month’s hotly anticipated debut, due to troubles running on anything but the newest hardware. Shares in the Polish developer CD Projekt SA had risen more than 1,800% in the five years since the studio’s previous major title to this month’s pre-launch peak, only to then lose about 40% of their value in a fortnight, erasing almost $5 billion in market value.