CD Projekt Red has revealed Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3's next-gen upgrades will both launch in the first half of 2022.

CD Projekt Red hasn't had the best 2021. That's largely down to the way it closed out its 2020. Seven years after the game was first announced, the studio finally bit the bullet and released Cyberpunk 2077. In hindsight, despite all that time to prepare, that was a bad idea. The game was riddled with bugs at launch, and CDPR admitted not enough work went into the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game.

The trouble with that for console players, regardless of generation, is that Cyberpunk players are still waiting for the next-gen version of the game. After previously claiming it would be here by the end of 2021, CDPR has now revealed Cyberpunk's PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions will not be released until the first quarter of 2022.

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If you're willing to shrug off that bad news because at least The Witcher 3 will be going next-gen before the end of the year, then you might want to look away now. The same regulatory announcement released by CDPR also reveals the wait for The Witcher 3 on PS5 and Series X|S has been extended. In fact, that now won't be here until the second quarter of 2022.

Earlier this week, Witcher fans got their hopes up that CDPR was planning on dropping the next-gen upgrade for the game on them unexpectedly. The upgraded version of the game received a PEGI rating, which is often an indicator that its release date is near. Sadly, you will not be playing a PS5 version of The Witcher 3 by the end of the week or even the end of the year. It'll be at least six months until you get to see Geralt in all of his next-gen glory.

While news of these delays is frustrating, it is very much a situation where Cyberpunk players, in particular, need to remind themselves of what happened the last time CDPR rushed a release. If the studio were to launch the next-gen upgrade for the game before it is actually ready, then it could undo a lot of the work it has done to fix the game over the course of the past ten months. It also won't want to sully The Witcher 3's terrific legacy by releasing a next-gen version that is anything less than perfect.

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