Cyberpunk 2077was always going to be one of this year’s sales juggernauts. CD Projekt Red’s futuristic RPG had been in development for 8 years and received over eight million pre-orders ahead of the game’s launch this month. Despite being plagued with issues upon release, the developers have confirmed that the game continues to sell incredibly well.
In anote to investors, CD Projekt Red’s Management Board has stated that the game has sold a further five million copies, bringing the total units sold to over 13 million. This figure takes into account “returns submitted by retail clients in brick-and-mortar as well as digital storefronts”.
While this figure will rise over the coming months as the developers fixCyberpunkand release native PS5 and Xbox Series X | S versions of the game, refunds for the title are likely to continue, at least in the short term. AlongsideSony’s offer of refunds and removal from their digital storefrontsandMicrosoft’s warning on the Xbox Storeandrefunds, reports have suggested that retailerGameStop will be accepting returns of physical copies of the game, even if they have already been used.
Along with the bugs and crashes,Cyberpunk’slaunch was marred by a variety of other issues. The game contained light patterns similar to those used by neurologists to induce seizures in patients,which in turn caused Liana Ruppert of GameInformer to have one herself. It’s also been reported recently that the gamewill corrupt any save file that grows larger than a meagre 8MB.
Although the game didturn a profit on day oneandranked top of a variety of sales charts,Cyberpunk 2077has still had a major impact on the founder’s wealth. It was reported that due to the game’s sub-par launch, the founders of CD Projekt Red lostmore than $1 billion between them in a matter of days.
Cyberpunk 2077is out now on Google Stadia,PC,PS4andXbox Onewith nativePS5andXbox Series Xversions coming next year.
