Disappointment for gaming fans as 'Cyberpunk 2077' delayed until December

It is the third delay for the highly-anticipated game from the company behind 'Witcher'

'Cyberpunk 2077' will now be available in December. 

Poland's biggest computer game maker has delayed the launch of the highly-anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 for a third time.

The game was due for release on Thursday, November 19, but CD Projekt SA has now set a new release date of Thursday, December 10. The delay comes as the company seeks to ensure the compatibility of Cyberpunk 2077 for both current and next-generation consoles, it said on Tuesday.

Management said they had miscalculated the time needed to complete the game since the title passed certification earlier this month.

“First and foremost, please accept our humble apologies,” co-chief executive officer and co-founder Marcin Iwinski and CD Projekt Red studio’s head Adam Badowski said on Twitter. “We feel we have an amazing game on our hands and we are willing to make every decision, even the hardest ones, if it ultimately leads to you getting a video game you’ll fall in love with.”

The new date for the launch of Cyberpunk 2077, a game set in a dystopian urban environment, is scheduled for weeks after the planned launch of Microsoft Xbox Series X and Sony PlayStation 5 consoles. It will fall behind a number of other gaming releases planned in November as developers bet that gamers' propensity to spend before the holiday season will increase, together with the first deliveries of new gaming equipment.

While the complex game works well on new machines and personal computers, the studio is still optimising the experience on older versions of hardware, chief executive Adam Kicinski said.

Kicinski is "firm" that the new launch date won't be changed again as the company gained "lots of confidence" about the game's quality from tests. The company doesn't expect "massive" cancellations of pre-orders because of rescheduling.

The Polish studio won global acclaim for its medieval role-playing game Witcher.

Additional reporting by Bloomberg