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Hopefully a smoother time for them with making the sequel. Reminded of the line from the Action Button review of Cyberpunk, "CDPR only made the Witcher 3 because they failed to make it twice."
Absolutely no chance. V dies in literally every ending except for the nomad ending where there's a slight chance that she might live. There's surely going to be a new protagonist which is fine.
There definitely is a chance as V does not 'die' on screen except for a few endings which I'm sure you're aware of. Yes the implication V will die eventually is there in each ending, but nothing is set in stone, they intentionally left it open ended likely for this sort of scenario.
But I do agree there is a good chance it'll be a new protagonist, since we already saw V's story, working his/her way up to becoming a night city legend. It would be unusual for them to essentially just have V back in night city on another adventure given how things ended, unless that adventure was to find a means to save themselves. But even then, we know night city doesn't cater to happy endings. I love V's character and voice actor a lot though, so I would be happy to see them return if that's a possibility, but a new face with a new story could be just what cyberpunk needs to reignite interest.
Yes, after the Phantom Liberty DLC next year they're pretty much done.
There's really no chance. Let's go over the endings, even.
The Devil: V refuses to sign the contract and then goes back to earth for her final few months while waiting to die. Alternatively, V signs the contract, becomes a construct, and her body dies just like how Johnny's body dies.
The Sun: V gives up on trying to find a cure and uses her remaining time waiting to die a legend at the Afterlife.
The Star: V leaves Night City with the Aldecados and she's dying from the relic. Panam promises to try to find a cure.
Temperance: V dies and Johnny takes her body
Secret ending: V goes on a suicide mission with Johnny and dies
Suicide ending: V shoots herself in the head and dies.
You want to believe that in the endings where she's waiting to die, there's a chance that things can turn around. No, this isn't realistic. V has a very short time to live. For this to work at all, the developers need to establish one of the waiting for death endings as canon and then the sequel has to immediately pick up from where 2077 left off. If time hasn't passed, then it also follows that the state of Night City is also exactly as you left it. That puts incredible burden on the developers to try to honour all of the player's choices from little stuff like whether Fingers lived all of the way up to big stuff like whether Takemura lived.
Think about how hard it would actually be to pull that off. For example, in The Star, V and Judy leave Night City together. Judy has previously made it clear that once she's gone, she's never coming back, no matter what. Sending V back to Night City means abandoning Judy.
In the Temperance ending V is just gone and Johnny is walking around in her body. What are they going to do with that? Have poor Cheremi Leigh record the game twice and the second time her director is telling her to do her best Keeanu Reeves impression? lmao
So for this to work at all, they would have to force a canon ending onto the player and it would suck. It immediately makes YOUR personal V non-canon and irrelevant. Suddenly everything you did never happened. This would be awful.
-OR- they could not inflict that misery onto themselves and their consumer and just have a new protagonist.
"I'm moving to Boston together with the core team responsible for Cyberpunk 2077 to establish new studio and be the foundation for the North American team.
Working together with the Vancouver crew and the devs from Warsaw we are going to deliver you a banging next game!"
Also fits with vague announcements of future projects being primarily to help with recruitment rather than anything else. (CDPR will be hiring a lot of new staff in North America and Poland.)