After the denial, now CD Projekt RED has decided to reveal the reasons why Cyberpunk 2077 will not arrive on Xbox Game Pass, at least for the moment. And they’re not, of course, that mysterious: the Polish development team has excellent reasons not to bring its new action RPG to a service like Microsoft’s.
As explained by Adam Kicinski, president of CD Projekt RED, Cyberpunk 2077 does not yet need the Xbox Game Pass. Despite all the problems they had at the launch, the executives of the development team are confident that the sales cycle of the title is still far from being exhausted. We consider every business opportunity, but this kind of subscription is excellent at a precise moment in the life of a product, so not too soon”, the words used by Kicinski to respond to shareholders and investors who have exposed the possibility of seeing the title land on the Game Pass of the house in Redmond.
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Clearly, in the near future, it is not excluded that Cyberpunk 2077 will not also land on Xbox Game Pass, a bit as it happened with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. We need to best balance the benefits and costs. These are decisions we make based on sales figures. I repeat, it is still too early to see the game within a similar service, Kicinski reiterated in conclusion to the explanation.
In short, it is useless to go around it: Cyberpunk 2077 has not yet finished its sales cycle. And CD Projekt RED thinks, with great probability, that the next-gen update and the next expansions will be able to push sales again and above all to change the perception of a slice of the public that has targeted its game. Surely sooner or later the game will be included in the catalog, but today it is really too early.