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by donutdan4114 1988 days ago
All i can say is that i feel so fuggin bad for that devs on that game. It must be so shitty to have to build the game for PC and also support PS4, etc... Like web-devs supporting IE 9 or lower... it's like, a whole generation of technology backwards... and it's just... not fun.. it sucks...

Taking your beautiful game that you've spend 5+ years on building and hacking it to pieces to run on older hardware must be the most tedious and infuriating experience... I feel for them.. and (as a side note), on PC, I've generally enjoyed the game... it has its bugs, but as a software dev, i can forgive it, because I know how shitty management is, and management is always the problem.

The game has taught me one lesson though.. and something that is always on my mind, which is when is GTA6 coming out, and how the F does Rockstar product such solid games? I mean, really, it's absolutely incredible the games they produce... the quality, the scale, the perfection.... they should be talked about more here... such respect... Rockstar games have been "top of the scale", like Pixar movies and such...

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> Taking your beautiful game that you've spend 5+ years on building and hacking it to pieces to run on older hardware

My understanding is that it was the other way around, which is why in my eyes there is no excuse for how badly it runs - It wasn't a case of adding support for older consoles at some point in development, rather, the PS5 etc... didn't exist (even as a spec) when they first started development of Cyberpunk, and as far as I had heard, they actually added support for next-gen something like halfway through development. They had no idea really of when the next gen consoles were going to release when they started it.