@therealseaman: Yeah, it doesn't look any better than God of War or The Last of Us 2 from what I've seen, it might just have more things on screen at once than them, but I'll believe that when I see it.
If the trailer is anything to go by, there's simply going to be way more stuff going on at once. The more stuff you have going on, the harder it is on computer hardware. Especially when you have stuff going on that has nothing to do with the player character. God of War looks fantastic but it doesn't really have all that much stuff going on, really, and The Last of Us Part II (again, from what we've seen in the trailer) doesn't have much going on either. Almost everything happening happens to and around the main character.
That the game can run at 4K on a 1080ti gives me a sigh of relief. I currently have a 1080p monitor and a 1070ti. I'll need a processor/RAM/mobo upgrade at some point but that's going to happen pretty soon anyway. If maxed-out settings for an E3 demo at four times my resolution is playable, then I likely won't have any problems running it with a few of the bells and whistles that don't do anything turned off.
Why are people expecting it to be so far away and out of reach of current hardware? It doesn't look to be any better than Metro Exodus to me.
If it comes out in 2020 then they have been working on it for around 6 years or more so that would be a little long, hopefully it does come out sooner.
It's also probably a lot more detailed and full of features than Metro Exodus. All we've seen for each game is a trailer, but just going by details from E3, Metro Exodus is going to be made up of a bunch of small, controlled open areas and Cyberpunk will be one huge open area chock-full of NPC's, dialog, events, and so on and so forth, and all of those things can have variance depending on who your character is and what you've done. That takes more time, money, people, and computing power than "a shooter with small open areas".
Also Metro Last Light was a 2013 game, 4A has had longer to put its full focus on Metro than CDPR has had to put its full focus on Cyberpunk - remember, Witcher 3 came out in 2015.
Still, if they had 45 minutes worth of gameplay to show the press, then a 2020 release date doesn't sound like an unreasonable hope. 2019 feels too close.
All of is speculation and I could be wrong about any of it. Just my two cents.
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