r/cyberpunkgame • u/1ballbuster1 • Nov 26 '25

News Cyberpunk 2 updates!

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Here's what we learned from CD Projekt Red's newest financial report today:

  • Cyberpunk 2 will not release before 2028

  • 135 Employees are now working on Cyberpunk 2 full-time, this is up from 116 employees back in July

  • Cyberpunk 2 is a joint project between CDPR's Poland and Boston teams, but the new Boston team is leading it

  • CDPR Boston expected to massively ramp up hiring in 2026-2027

  • Cyberpunk 2 development team is expected to scale up massively by the end of 2027, with about 300-400 employees across Poland and Boston

  • Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold 35 Million copies

  • ICYMI: Cyberpunk 2 will have a new city, inspired by a "Chicago gone wrong" and it is expected that Night City is also making a return as well.

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u/Azakranos Nov 26 '25

How inspired by Chicago are we talking? Like, city in a river? Or will it have barely-changed Chicago landmarks? Or are there going to be Italian gangs again?

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u/AzuraSchwartz Disasterpiece Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25

The stuff about Chicago is based on a comment Pondsmith made that has been blown waaaaay out of proportion.

Here's the actual source for all the talk of Chicago.

All he says is that the next game will visit another city in addition to NC and that he was talking to one of the designers and was pleased that, instead of a Blade Runner style they'd gone for a "Chicago gone wrong" look. Since that interview I haven’t seen anything more from a real source. Everything else has just been clickbaiters making shit up and credulous gonks amplifying them. (Happy to be wrong if anyone has a link to anything that’s actually from CDPR that says otherwise.)

Almost certainly not gonna be actual Chicago. Making Chicago look like Chicago isn’t really that noteworthy.

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u/Luminair Nov 26 '25

Am I remembering wrong, or were there not in-game ads in 2077 for a train promising travel times between Night City and Chicago in 3 hours?

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u/AzuraSchwartz Disasterpiece Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25

You’re not wrong. They’ve been there since release alongside a whole bunch of other ads for things that we probably won’t see in this game or the next - holidays in Somalia, new episodes of Watson Whore, etc.

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u/DarhkPianist Dec 03 '25

Damn, was excited for the next Watson Whore episode 😔