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Cyberpunk 2077’s release date  has been delayed until September…it still needs crunch time to complete, according to the CEO

CD Projekt’s chief executive admitted that development crunch will still be necessary as CD Projekt Red brings this project to term.  Adam Kicinski “We try to limit crunch as much as possible, but it is the final stage. We try to be reasonable in this regard, but yes. Unfortunately.”

According to sources, This isn’t another five months to polish up an otherwise finished game, and instead means developers need five extra months of full-on development to deliver something worth a launch.  What CD Projekt Red has on hand now is “playable; the whole game,” Kicinski said, adding that “it’s been like that for a couple of months.” Still, asked to describe what the trouble was causing the delay, he attributed it to “technical bug-fixing and polishing.” That said, the game is so detailed that “polishing is just a complex task. It’s about the number of things we have to take care of rather than some fundamental problem.”

Kicinski nonetheless said the development team considers the delay “a good decision, and that having an extra five months will enable us to deliver a perfect game.”