In the wake of GTA 6's delay to November, 2026, CD Projekt Red has reminded everyone of its own mishaps when it comes to releasing games that weren't ready - cough, cough - Cyberpunk 2077.
Just yesterday, Rockstar Games announced that the release date of GTA 6 has been pushed back for a second time, this time from next May to next November, almost a year from now. The developer said the extra six months will let it deliver "the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve."
In response, The Witcher 4 studio CD Projekt Red dug up a five-year-old social media post: "No more delays are happening," which it tweeted after delaying Cyberpunk 2077 for the last time.
The wordless, almost creepy warning serves as a reminder of what happens when a game gets shoved out to store shelves without actually being ready. Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the most high-profile and notoriously buggy/broken video game launches of this generation, but you probably don't need me to tell you that.
As much as the post is a warning to Rockstar Games, it's also a reminder for players to probably have patience because, and allow me to quote Gabe Newell here: "Late is just for a little while, suck is forever." Well, in the case of Cyberpunk, suck was up until update 2.0 or so, but still, no one wants to wait for GTA 6 to get good three years after we all buy it, right?
Rockstar's parent company seems well aware of this anyway, as Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick told investors, "When our competitors go to market before something was ready, bad things happen."
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