A very unexpected leak has emerged in the late hours of the day today that has caught both games journalists, gamers, Gamer Professionals and the industry at large by complete surprise. The existence of an exclusive version of CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 for the Nintendo Switch has emerged, titled "Cyberpunk 2077: Portable Edition". A handful of screenshots of the port running on actual Nintendo Switch hardware have leaked along with details regarding gameplay, performance, download size and a potential release date. Although anonymous, it is widely believed the leak originated from a disgruntled Gamer Professional who formerly worked for CD Projekt Red in some capacity.

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It is suggested that the game currently runs at a dynamic sub HD 480p resolution and a capped "cinematic" 24 frames per second framerate when docked with a potentially lower resolution and framerate when running undocked. The games development is at near gold complete status with a potential release date of summer 2021. The download size of the game has been hinted at 85gb with an extra 10gb of data being pulled from the actual physical game cartridge. It is currently believed there will be no eshop version of Cyberpunk Portable Edition, you will need both the physical cartridge and the full download to play. This may be a form of DRM to protect the title from piracy, it may also be a method to get such an ambitious title working on the Nintendo Switch's feeble hardware. It has not been confirmed however how much of Cyberpunks PC and console experience will actually make it to the portable edition, with current rumours that only 50% of the games content will be available at launch. Possible future patches have not been ruled out later to add any missing content however.

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In a attached statement the Gamer Professional who leaked the existence of the port along with the pictures and details stated:

"It is crazy how much development time and effort was invested getting Cyberpunk ported to a system that is less powerful than most budget phones. Developing this game for the switch resulted in less bug testing and optimization of Cyberpunk for the PS4 and Xbox One and also the PC. A large reason why we are seeing patches coming out for Cyberpunk for these systems now is that development of Cyberpunk Portable is almost done and is winding down, so we can refocus our efforts on the systems that actually have the capability to run Cyberpunk well once fully patched and optimised!"

We will keep updated with further information as it breaks on this story.

 

[Deleted User]

If only...

 

[wolf-snake]

Nice one. I don't think anyone even wants this game anymore.

 

[NoNAND]

10/10 this is the kind of content I expect on the front page

Thank God P1ng is back as supervisor and banned the rest of the mag staff team

We all love him

 

[Purple_Heart]

i ``totally need`` this xD

 

[The Catboy]

I’m crying already! ;O;

 

[M7L7NK7]

The game most likely to have a save game exploit

 

[DKB]

im shaking and crying cd projekt red would never do this

 

[BitMasterPlus]

Ok but will they port the game to my nokia flip phone is the question?

 

[zoogie]

All the folks here who don't know about the Gamer Professionals reference is pretty amusing

I hope this theme will be kept around, it makes my pfp cat look extra evil.
and totally not a blotch of ink ;p

 

[Cylent1]

10/10 this is the kind of content I expect on the front page

Thank God P1ng is back as supervisor and banned the rest of the mag staff team

What is a Mag Staff Team?

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April Fool's joke...
Nintendo never allows such crap on their consoles... XD

Like any of the over 2500 indie games?

 

[RyRyIV]

10/10 this is the kind of content I expect on the front page

Thank God P1ng is back as supervisor and banned the rest of the mag staff team

Can confirm, am mag staff and currently banned via P1ng. Plz send help

 

[ChibiMofo]

plz upload xci plz

Do you know how many years that is going to take to download at 2800 baud on your Hayes modem via this BBS?

I really love these April Fools Day mods, by the way. Nice job, GBATemp!

 

[Nerdtendo]

It's still two hours early for me guys

 

[GoldenBullet]

24 Fps and near Gold completion do not belong in the same sentence

 

[orangy57]

Lmao these keep getting me it's not even April yet in the US

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

the April Fools prank of this site for this year will clearly go down as this theme, not some 4chan insider post about an unannounced port of a game supposedly coming to the Switch that no one in their right mind would think could handle the game to begin with.

It will now since you had to be an ass about it

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[Wavy]

I just downloaded a leaked version and here's how it looks:

uhh my house at least

 

[haxan]

God, I just realized that we are in April

 

[tabzer]

It will now since you had to be an ass about it

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I think the site's theme drew attention to the fact that it was a *special day* and from that point on, everything else on the site is scrutinized. TBH I don't think OP was trying to be believable. It'd be funny if everything else was normal and people did believe the article--but also kind of depressing.

 

[SkittleDash]

You know what, I was very interested... For about three seconds when I remembered what today is. If this was real, my Switch would fucking melt after 5 minutes of playing it.