Cyberpunk 2077 players have criticised the game’s performance on base PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles.
CD Projekt’s much-anticipated open-world game released on consoles andPCtoday, offering the first chance to date to see how retail code performs on the seven-year-oldPS4andXbox One.
As with the PC version, the game appears to suffer from a significant number of visual bugs at launch, but video evidence suggests these issues can be far more severe on the older console hardware.
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Social media videos show the PS4 and Xbox One versions ofCyberpunk 2077taking a significant amount of time to load environments and characters, resulting in some scenes that look out of place in a final retail game.
According toinitial analysis by Digital Foundry, the PS4 version of Cyberpunk appears to run between 720p and 900p resolution, while the framerate drops to as low as 20fps when driving around big city areas. Some indoor environments run well at 30fps, but can drop to 25, it said.
Running the game onPlayStation 5via backwards compatibility increases framerates to 60fps, as detailed in VGC’s earlierCyberpunk PS5 vs. PC analysis.
Don’t worry everyone we’ll just crunch the staff for another year to iron these out.pic.twitter.com/brj1v0ibtj
This is Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 currently. Shockingly disappointing.pic.twitter.com/J5nXB0gEYO
Cyberpunk 2077 rodando tranquilo no PS4…#Cyberpunk2077#PS4sharepic.twitter.com/d6nRhkg1UP
Full next-gen versions of Cyberpunk 2077aren’t due out until next year, but the game’s developer has said the last-gen console releases will run better on the newest systems.
However, analysis of both Xbox One and PS4 versions running via backwards compatibility suggests thatonly Xbox Series X offers the option to choose between a higher resolution or smoother framerateon day one.
Cyberpunk’s seeming lack of PS5 graphics options could be due to an issue with the way the console handles backwards compatibility.
Cyberpunk 2077 on base consoles (how a great % of people will play it) is an absolute travesty.My god people, I mean look at how those two npcs ran at the end, they were like the Spider-man ps4 ps2 boat easter egg.pic.twitter.com/FnSRgAgDgt
Welcome… to#Cyberpunk2077on PS4 fat / XBO !pic.twitter.com/77BSmEuw6y
Enabling next-gen performance features such as 120fpsreportedly requires a full native port on PS5, whileMicrosoftallows such features to be added via a backwards compatibility patch.
Recently, a number of games includingStar Wars: Squadrons,Call of Duty: WarzoneandRocket Leaguehave received performance updates for those playing onXbox Series X, but not PS5.
In VGC’sCyberpunk 2077 review, which was based on our time with the PC version of the game, our critic called it “a stunning achievement, if you’re able to overlook the glitches”.
The game currently hasa 91 Metascore on review aggregation site Metacritic, based on 50 PC reviews.
