When Reeves made his surprise appearance at the Xbox event during E3 2019, memorably shouting, "You're breathtaking! You're all breathtaking!" in response to fans in the crowd, he announced a release window for "Cyberpunk 2077": April 2020.
But by April 2020, the game had been delayed to November — the most important month of the year for video game launches. The PlayStation 5 and new Xbox consoles launched in mid-November, as did this year's "Call of Duty" game.
Then, in a last-minute surprise, CD Projekt Red delayed "Cyberpunk 2077" once more. This time, the studio said, the game would come out for sure on December 10. It was the fourth release date and third such delay to "Cyberpunk 2077," and it came after the studio's public announcement in October that the game had "gone gold" — a video game industry term that signifies a game is content complete, can be played from beginning to end, and is ready to be pressed to a disc.
Between the time that a game "goes gold" and its launch date, many game studios work on a "Day 0" update that players must download before playing. These updates are intended to fix any known issues before players can encounter them, and it's this update that caused the final delay of "Cyberpunk 2077," according to its developers.