The motivation behind this deception, at least in the eyes of OpenCritic, was that bonuses were tied to the title receiving at least a score of 90 on Metacritic leading up to launch. This prompted CD Projekt Red to only hand out PC copies for review and disallowing reviewers from using any of their own footage.

What has Cdpr said about cyberpunk?

CDPR has said they're sorry for effectively hiding the state of Cyberpunk 2077 on last-gen consoles in a tweet this morning: The apology is not just for the game being in that state, but for not ever showing the game on base consoles ahead of launch.

Is Cyberpunk false advertising?

Even though the case relates to Cyberpunk 2077, it's not really about video games — the suits against CD Projekt are not brought by jaded gamers, and they do not allege false advertising as to Cyberpunk 2077 itself. Instead, the lawsuit is a classic example of securities fraud.