Cyberpunk 2077 was announced in 2012, eight full years before its disastrous launch, creating a hype cycle so massive that the developers physically could not deliver a functional product on older console hardware.

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Cyberpunk 2077 was announced in 2012, eight full years before its disastrous launch, creating a hype cycle so massive that the developers physically could not deliver a functional product on older console hardware. When the game finally shipped in 2020, it was so plagued with game-breaking bugs, vanishing pedestrians, and horrific graphical glitches that Sony entirely removed it from their digital storefront for months. It remains the ultimate cautionary tale of corporate hubris, proving that absolutely no amount of neon lighting, aggressive marketing, or digital appearances by Keanu Reeves can fix a fundamentally broken physics engine. The studio spent millions apologizing, effectively transforming the dystopian cyberpunk fantasy into a bleak, highly realistic documentary about modern corporate software development!