> Taking your beautiful game that you've spend 5+ years on building and hacking it to pieces to run on older hardware
My understanding is that it was the other way around, which is why in my eyes there is no excuse for how badly it runs - It wasn't a case of adding support for older consoles at some point in development, rather, the PS5 etc... didn't exist (even as a spec) when they first started development of Cyberpunk, and as far as I had heard, they actually added support for next-gen something like halfway through development. They had no idea really of when the next gen consoles were going to release when they started it.
My understanding is that it was the other way around, which is why in my eyes there is no excuse for how badly it runs - It wasn't a case of adding support for older consoles at some point in development, rather, the PS5 etc... didn't exist (even as a spec) when they first started development of Cyberpunk, and as far as I had heard, they actually added support for next-gen something like halfway through development. They had no idea really of when the next gen consoles were going to release when they started it.