Players who buy Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam will be able to stream the game “fully optimized” through GeForce NOW on PC and Mac in September, according to a Wednesday post on Nvidia’s website. However it only mentions Steam, which has left many people asking whether there will also be support for Cyberpunk 2077 through the GOG.com digital distribution platform in the post’s comments and in replies to the announcement on Twitter.
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The game is a pretty big grab for Nvidia, as the company only just released its cloud streaming service GeForce NOW from beta earlier this month. CD Projekt Red also announced that Cyberpunk 2077 would be available on Google Stadia, another cloud-based gaming platform, last August.
After the developers announced Cyberpunk 2077’s delay for more optimization time in January, many fans were sympathetic and even encouraging about the extra wait time. It has been widely reported that the open-world role-playing game will be very graphically and mechanically intensive, so it will undoubtedly come out better with more time in the oven.
However, CD Projekt Red has also received backlash for perpetuating a harmful cycle of development crunch with its employees as a result of the delay. Yet hype for the game continues to build as its marketing machine churns, giving fans access to limited edition graphics cards, Funko Pop vinyl figurines, and more.
Supposedly the world has not seen the full extent of Cyberpunk 2077’s graphical capabilities according to CD Projekt Red’s Head John Mamais. That enticing nugget of information has made the company’s commitment to Nvidia’s tech as the seemingly best option to reach that level of performance more interesting, so it should be fun to see how the game runs with GeForce NOW in September.
Cyberpunk 2077 is set to release on September 17th, 2020, for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.
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Source: Nvidia
