Game news Cyberpunk 2077: The Edgerunners anime does a great ad for CD Projekt’s game, Numbers!
Published on 09/19/2022 at 10:38
Cyberpunk 2077 has come a long way, and if everything is not yet perfect (and never will be), the title is much more pleasant to browse today than it was when it was released. Helped by numerous corrective or content updates, the software has gradually won back the hearts of players.
Cyberpunk 2077: a saved game?
Even before the release of update 1.5 and therefore of the arrival of the PS5 and Xbox Series versions last winter, the opinions, previously negative, are gradually become positive once more. The consequences of many months of work for the developers, who published huge updates, with hundreds and hundreds of bugfixes. Some game systems will struggle to be completely redesigned, but the experience Cyberpunk 2077 became more than correct on PS4 Pro, Xbox One X, PS5, Xbox Series, but also on PCwhere things were going fairly well as long as we had the right configuration right from the start.
Recently, it’s the 1.6 update that has come to lightwith some additional contracts, and objects related to the anime series Edgerunners. The future of Cyberpunk 2077, c’est l’extension Phantom Liberty, which will arrive in 2023 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series, but not on PS4 and Xbox One. The developers decided to ignore these versionseven if it means compensating the owners of these versions or Xbox One X Cyberpunk 2077 console.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners: when the Netflix anime boosts sales and public interest
But the game does it still attract the public? Overall, yes. According to SteamDB, Cyberpunk 2077 is attracting still nearly 20,000 players on average on Steam, which is more than fair in view of the very bad publicity linked to the launch. However, you are aware that CD Projekt has collaborated with the animation studio Trigger in order to create an anime. The latter is called Cyberpunk : Edgerunnersand is available on Netflix since September 13.
There are new characters, Night City, many references (both visual and script) to the game, to the delight of fans. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was very well received by the publicsome comments even indicating that it was the best possible advertisement for the game. It seems that, as for the series The Witcher with Henry Cavill, the series Cyberpunk : Edgerunner allowed Cyberpunk 2077 to regain popularity! Also according to SteamDB, attendance of the game on Steam has been increasing since the beginning of the month, and this increase has increased sharply since the arrival of the anime on Netflix.
Between the release of the episodes and yesterday, the number of players recorded on the game and on Steam is went from 20,000 to 30,000, then to 40,000 and 70,000, to reach a peak of 85,555 on Sunday evening! This is the highest total since the launch phase of the game, and 4 times more than a good week ago. Attendance that can be compared to sales, since Cyberpunk 2077 is currently leading the best sellers on Valve’s platform, well helped by a 50% promotion. Something to reassure the teams, whose work is now mainly dedicated to the development of the extension.
