According to the recent CDPR earnings report, the surge of positive Cyberpunk 2077 sales and word of mouth delivered the company’s second most profitable year ever. Here is a snip from Kotako;
Developer CD Projekt Red revealed its full 2022 earnings report earlier this week (via IGN), which showed total revenue for Cyberpunk 2077 actually grew 18 percent year-over-year. Usually that number keeps going down after release, but the unusual turnaround ended up helping make 2022 the company’s second-best year on record when it came to sales revenue.
An earnings slide shows Cyberpunk 2077 Steam reviews over time.
A big part of the rebound was obviously the game’s massive 1.5 patch which added some new features and content, streamlined others, and overhauled a host of bugs, performance issues, and other problems. It notably released alongside the free “next-gen” upgrade for PS5 and Xbox Series X as well, making February 2022 the unofficial end of Cyberpunk 2077’s unofficial Early Access period. A graph in CDPR’s earnings presentation showed an inflexion point after the update was released where negative user reviews on Steam steadily declined while positive ones skyrocketed.