I Tried Cyberpunk 2077 1.0 in 2025...

Filmed this during the summer, had just gotten out of the hospital. I eventually chose to release this during the holidays, a fun throwback to how this game began and a bit of an eye-opener to the extent of the buggy mess that console players ran into. Still insane to this day that this was the release version of one of the most highly anticipated games ever. Also explains a lot with why console review codes werent provided at launch. Hope you enjoy because there is a lot that happens in this video lol

I'm stuck on 1.61 on my Xbox 😞

ps4 always had catastrophic loading times.

Day 1 on the ps4 the most I experienced was a crash after the montage on the base ps4. But it was dreadfully empty at times and the roads being blocks after that day 1 patch. After that it was just crashing and no npcs

I was going to suggest a drinking game whenever he says "oh my god" but I decided I don't want to be responsible for anyone leaving this world prematurely.

i played this on ps4 pro and had few issues
now own it for ps5

Nice 👏

Hey so how do I play 1.0 version of cyberpunk on the ps5 having trouble do it because it automatically updates the ps4 version

I remember being dissapointed in the performance at launch (sometimes during fights the enemies would zip around like sonic and fluctuate on speed) but besides that I had a great time lol. Redownloading to see how it is now

Didn't buy it on launched and saw tons of memes it brought, finally bought it after 2 yrs on ps4 for $20, enjoyed it but got tired of the crashes so I quit.. Tried it again on ps5 and 100x better than the current triple/quad A western games.. Still thinks they could've done more before they drop the support on it

I'm just going to let ChatGPT summarize the various issues with Cyberpunk 2077 on the PS4:

"Cyberpunk 2077 ran poorly on the PS4 due to several technical limitations and design choices that pushed the aging hardware beyond its capabilities. Here are the key reasons:

1. Memory (RAM) Bottleneck
The PS4 has 8GB of unified GDDR5 RAM, which is shared between the CPU and GPU.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a highly detailed open-world game that requires significant memory bandwidth for assets, AI, and physics.
The game often exceeded the available memory, leading to slow texture loading, asset pop-in, and crashes.
2. Weak CPU (Jaguar Cores)
The PS4's AMD Jaguar CPU is 8-core but clocked at only 1.6 GHz.
The CPU struggled with the game's complex AI, NPC density, and physics simulations, leading to stuttering and frame drops.
Many features, such as NPC behavior, were simplified or broken due to CPU limitations.
3. Slow Hard Drive (HDD)
The PS4 uses a mechanical HDD instead of an SSD, which significantly slowed asset streaming.
Open-world games rely on fast data streaming, and Cyberpunk 2077’s high-detail environments suffered from slow texture loading and pop-in.
This also caused long loading times and crashes when moving through the city too quickly.
4. GPU Limitations
The PS4’s GPU (1.84 TFLOPS GCN-based AMD) was underpowered for the game's real-time lighting, high-resolution textures, and crowd density.
CD Projekt Red targeted a high visual fidelity that was more suited for high-end PCs and next-gen consoles.
As a result, resolution dynamically scaled down (often below 720p), and frame rates dropped to 15-20 FPS in demanding scenes.
5. Lack of Optimization & Poor Scaling
The game was primarily developed with PC hardware in mind, featuring high-end lighting, physics, and AI.
The PS4 version suffered from poor level-of-detail (LOD) scaling, meaning objects loaded too late or were missing detail entirely.
Patches improved performance somewhat, but at launch, the game was practically unplayable on base PS4.
6. High CPU & GPU Load from Open-World Features
Dense NPC populations, vehicles, dynamic lighting, and physics simulations were too much for the PS4 to handle.
Unlike older open-world games, Cyberpunk 2077 aimed for high interactivity and detail, making it difficult to run on weaker hardware.
7. AI & NPC System Performance Issues
The AI in Cyberpunk 2077 was ambitious, with dynamic reactions, pathfinding, and combat systems.
On PS4, AI systems often broke down, resulting in glitchy NPC behavior, disappearing crowds, and broken police systems.
Conclusion
Cyberpunk 2077's performance issues on the PS4 stemmed from aging hardware limitations, lack of proper optimization, and an overly ambitious game design that was built for stronger systems. The game required extensive patches to make it more stable, but it was clear that the PS4 was not capable of delivering the intended experience."

that ps4 screen looks so photoshopped

I’ve got around 640 hours in the latest version with a good PC. 5700x with a 4070 super. And it’s insane to look back and compare. It’s a literal masterpiece in 2025.

1.0 is literal perfection , designed to be the perfect example of what Modern Trip A Game's are

To think, that if this game was made about 10 years earlier. The game would be stuck like this - forever. Being confined to the disks they print, after all.

I think this is an even worse 1.0, because when i played day 1, it had bugs but ive never seen these

Cyberpunk is the best looking game I have ever played. Sure there are bugs and the gameplay is lacking, but it looks so realistic

One of my favorite games of all time! It’s a shame it launched in the poor state that it did.

to me the core game will never be what they advertised and i just dont like it

Pretty sure you can replicate most of the issues you're having with a 1 mb/s hard drive on a pc.

i wonder how much of an improvement a PS4 Pro owner would see if they changed out the internal HDD to an SSD and tried to run Cyberpunk like that, because I have a Slim and Ghost of Tsushima actually loads way faster than it would on a hard drive

Should have played it on a base model ps4. That was my experience with cyber clunk back in the day. Ps5s were rare to find at the game.

More videos like this too please!

We appreciate your suffering here. This is veryy entertaining all things considered 😂

Yikes.

Beat the game in this version on new gen Xbox and loved it. If my experience were anything close to this I would’ve understood everyone’s whining 😂

To be fair, CDPR saying that the game ran "surprisingly well" on legacy consoles is fair. It must've been surprising it even ran on them. The game should've never released on that generation of consoles and I suspect that the devs knew that well but couldn't do anything about it because of higher ups.

I had to return my Ps4 version, wen i met Evilin Parker in the Bar, She had no Textures, she was a Big fussy Blurry Blob.
I am Glad i came back to it in version 2.0 on a good PC

Cp77 should have online mode

Hence why we must be as patient as possible for GTA VI even if it misses this year if R* has to delay it to ‘26 or so.

How i wished this game lunched without bugs so its pure disappointment would have showed. Cause the bugs distracted people from how underwhelming the game was compared to what was marketed.
No wonder the marketing budget was bigger than some countries GDP

Hated that season first last of us 2 sucked drained my soul a little but I was like positive cyberpunk would change that and oh boy was I wrong even my wife was like omg that looks terrible are those really the people that made Witcher . Couldn’t get my self to play any story driven game in a while thank god for verdansk

That chase segment with Takemura is killing me💀, such an important part of the story and there’s zero immersion😭

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Just before I fully watch this and I will, I know I'm going to get the familiar angry feelings over this game. And yes over a video game I know many of you will not understand, and yes they made it better in the end perhaps. But having played Witcher 1 and 3, I was very excited for this game. And yes in hindsight being excited for a video game, I should have known better. But I was excited and thought considering Witcher 3, it could be something that would be phenomenal. And it was messy and not very good, and the problem with the DLC is. I don't know how much of the cut content from the game, which was sizable is in that DLC. Might be none or may be considerable, making me pay for cut content not a fun scenario. Considering how angry it made me playing the base game, in the end my mate went halves with me when the DLC was on sale. Mostly because he wanted it, and he knew I didn't want to give any more money to CD project Red. I've not played it and I don't know if I will, I now no longer trust the developer. But they did teach me a valuable lesson, don't be excited for a new video game. And if you reading this enjoyed it fantastic, not knocking your experience. And just to be clear, the game still has bugs and cut content. Which could have made the game even better. They had our trust as gamers, they were a beacon for doing right by their players. They didn't need to do what they did by, releasing it before it was ready and lying to their dedicated players. But they did and while aspects of the game are good, I wonder at what could have been. And in the big schemes of things, does it matter to you no probably not. With all the other rubbish releases lately, I'm not as perturbed as I was. But I will never lose that yucky feeling, when playing this game. After watching the video, dam I knew the console version run worse than the PC copy. But to see how badly especially on ps4, the PC wasn't great but far better than this. Sorry to the console players honestly, for me it will always be stained no matter what they do.

The amount of copium from some people. I played it on PC so didn't have these problems, but I had people swearing up and down in the CDPR forums that they were playing this with PS4 day one and had no problems. This video here clearly shows they were straight up lying. No wonder I got banned for calling them out.

People forget that this game was actually a piece of shit when it first launched. As a matter of fact even though the game is technically much better now, this may be a bit controversial but I actually think the game still has a lot of issues. I think the game is now just average. It’s not a terrible game now with all the bug patches but Cyberpunk 2077 is still nowhere near a masterpiece and never will be. The game has issues by design even beyond just having bugs and glitches up the ass.

In fact, I’m even going to do my own video on this game soon. I definitely have some things to honestly say about this game.

Great video concept man. Love it😂😂😂

ps4 1.0 and PC 1.0 are very different. Now I'm not saying it's flawless on PC or anything like that, it's just that it's already bad on PC, but this is on another level of bad.

Game still has bugs today, but man I enjoy this game.

Beautiful gameplay like the music for gta5 nice

Playing a game BUILT FOR RTX Game Computers and trying to get it to run on a 15 YEAR OLD CONSOLE SYSTEM is it any wonder it didnt work?? They WASTED so much time on the console version when it should have been a PC RELEASE then ported to Console later.

I played it in PS4 and don't remember half the things I've seen here. Of course, back then we had day one updates that helped

I waited until September 2023 to play it with all the updates and Phantom Liberty. I know the original release was scummy, but the final product was an absolute masterpiece.

I won’t be preordering again, but I did fall in love with the final product

It looks so bad on PS4. lol

I guess I got pretty lucky because on pc my 1.0 version worked really well. It ran great until it was patched then I had a few things break. Honestly I prefer the older leveling system over the new one. You could have much more interesting builds before the Phantom Liberty patch dropped.

Yeah us pc players had a bad time but compaired to this it was way beter than this.

What a shame this didn't run on consoles. Worked perfectly from beginning to end for me on PC.