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Yeah I don't get it, TW3 was unplayable for quite a while on base consoles, sub 30 fps throughout most of the game, and CB2077 is a game with much bigger scope the base consoles couldn't handle the NPC rich areas in TW3 so no matter how much optimization they would do I don't understand who thought that this game will ever be playable on the base previous gen consoles.

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People who saw a game sold for their platform assumed it was fit for purpose.

I don't understand who tries to complicate that with sentiments like "they should have known better"

Isn't not quite consistent 30fps basically the norm on PS4/Xbox one?

Yes and no, TW3 was bad like really really bad it still is really sucky on base consoles.

TW3 played perfectly fine on base PS4 for me. Sure, some very action-heavy segments have some frame drops, but overall, it performed acceptably. I played it six months after release, for over 150 hours and I only had one severe bug in that time (I fell through the world, but was able to get back out, so wasn't even game breaking).

This point is incorrect. If they’re releasing the game for current gen, it should be playable on it.

Current gen is the PS5 and Xbox Series, except for occasional crashes the game looks and performs really well on those.

The game's been announced 7 years ago and multiple original release dates were prior to the PS5 and Xbox Series even coming out.

If Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't targetting PS4 and Xbox One, CDPR shouldn't have released it for them at all.

> If Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't targetting PS4 and Xbox One, CDPR shouldn't have released it for them at all.

Exactly. If they release and advertise it for a platform, it better work. If it doesn't, don't release on that platform.

The PS5 is running a backported PS4 game. There is no release for the current console generation.

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