Following the delay of the next-gen versions of The Witcher III: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077 late last year, developer CD Projekt Red has been silent since then. Today, the devs announced a Cyberpunk 2077 live stream is set for tomorrow, February 15. Following the announcement, the Xbox Store has been updated and shows that Cyberpunk 2077 is now optimized for Xbox Series X|S which means that the next-gen versions of the game for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 might be announced for tomorrow.
CD Projekt Red said that they are targeting release for the next-gen versions of Cyberpunk 2077 for Q1 2022. The next-gen version of The Witcher III: Wild Hunt is slated for a Q2 2022 release. This is not the first time that a next-gen version of the game has been brought up. In January, a PS5 edition of the game showed up om PlayStation Network which prompted speculation then that the next-gen version of the game would be getting announced soon.
The next-gen version of Cyberpunk 2077 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S may not be the only thing announced during tomorrow’s livestream. We may get to see what next’s for the future of the game. There are couple of different things that could get revealed. We may get a first look at the DLC plans for the game. CD Projekt Red said that Cyberpunk 2077 would be getting the same amount of DLC as The Witcher III: Wild Hunt. There is also an anime adaptation of Cyberpunk 2077 in the works. The anime is called Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and is being developed by Studio Trigger. It will be available on Netflix sometime this year. The show tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner-a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.
We’ll have to wait and see what the livestream reveals tomorrow February 15 at 4 PM CET on the official CD Projekt Red Twitch channel.