Cyberpunk 2077 Tops 13 million Units Sold Despite Refunds

Cyberpunk 2077 was e'er going to exist one of this twelvemonth's sales juggernauts. CD Projekt Red'southward futuristic RPG had been in development for 8 years and received over 8 million pre-orders ahead of the game's launch this month. Despite being plagued with issues upon release, the developers take confirmed that the game continues to sell incredibly well.

In a note to investors, CD Projekt Cerise's Management Board has stated that the game has sold a further 5 million copies, bringing the total units sold to over thirteen 1000000. This figure takes into account "returns submitted past retail clients in brick-and-mortar as well as digital storefronts".

While this figure will ascent over the coming months every bit the developers fix Cyberpunk and release native PS5 and Xbox Serial X | S versions of the game, refunds for the title are likely to continue, at least in the brusque term. Alongside Sony'southward offer of refunds and removal from their digital storefronts and Microsoft's warning on the Xbox Shop and refunds, reports have suggested that retailer GameStop will exist accepting returns of physical copies of the game, even if they accept already been used.

Along with the bugs and crashes, Cyberpunk's launch was marred by a diversity of other issues. The game contained light patterns similar to those used by neurologists to induce seizures in patients, which in plough caused Liana Ruppert of GameInformer to take one herself. It's as well been reported recently that the game volition corrupt any save file that grows larger than a meagre 8MB.

Although the game did profit on day i and ranked top of a variety of sales charts, Cyberpunk 2077 has withal had a major bear upon on the founder's wealth. It was reported that due to the game's sub-par launch, the founders of CD Projekt Red lost more $1 billion between them in a matter of days.

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