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No clue what's going to happen to V in canon. If V goes all road warrior, V's fame ends and the memory fades away. If V takes over Afterlife, V lives forever in one form or another and never fades away.
Will Adam Smasher be dead? I'm certain he'll be dead, but how he died will be up for the increasingly-blurring lens of history to decide. Did V kill him or leave him defeated but alive? He's more machine than man, a cyberpsycho, a zero score in his empathy stat caused by way too much chrome. (TTRPG rules.) His usefulness to corps is no longer a thing once he's defeated even if left alive, and well... in 2077, Cpsychos are dealt with in a singular manner (unless V is able to get to them before MAXTAC or C-SWAT gets to them).
If V went off into the Stars, nobody will remember who took down Smasher or how. If V took over Afterlife, V's glory days will be laced with embellishments galore, and the truth will be anyone's guess. (It was for Johnny from Red moving into 2077.)
So, there will be some things set in stone and some things revised, but V's story hinges on one thing: lasting fame.
Maybe 2077 is Night City's final story, and the next one will pick up somewhere else. Night City isn't the only place. Several others are mentioned throughout the course of the campaign. That way, V's ending makes no difference to the future of CP.
Just want to chime in at this. Mike Pondsmith and CDPR have both said and agreed that Johnny's Engram in 2077 is an unreliable narrator. In particular, Mike Pondsmith has said that Johnny's engram was corrupted by the radiation from the 'Saka nuke going off.
In the account of the 'Saka Bombing in Cyberpunk RED, Spider Murphy slots a dataslug she got from Alt into Johnny as Johnny is laying there unconscious and dying. She goes to get her network suitcase (Which she used to send pieces of Alt onto the net) but it's gone.
Afterward, Johnny's body is recovered by a Borg firefighter who was a Samurai fan. She also finds a Nuke that Arasaka had at the bottom of the tower and she takes the nuclear device out and puts Johnny's body in the case. Eventually, Arasaka sends a squad to hunt down their missing nuke, and when they open the case they find Johnny's body. Since she also has possession of Johnny's Malorian and Johnny's Porsche, it's reasonable to assume that Adam Smasher was apart of the job to track the missing "Saka nuke, since Smasher is later in possession of Johnny's Porsche.
In this instance, Johnny's Engram would end up recovered by Arasaka (since it is heavily implied that Spider Murphy used Alt's soulkiller on him as he was dying), but because of the corruption of data Johnny thinks Arasaka did him with Soulkiller. Pondsmith has also said that Cyberpunk RED and Cyberpunk 2077 are all aligned canonically wise.
Aside from that, Pondsmith has basically said that he and his guys are in control of everything up until 2060 and after 2060 CD Projekt Red is responsible for the story.
I'm guessing Johnny just remembers it differently as he is a super ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who thinks lots of himself.
All that makes sense to me, it could be canon and still make sense with very little hand waving like the reason its not clear how V killed Adam or what happened with So Mi and the president is because they never really told it before they died so it just became rumour.
Its just that if it is Canon V is really crazy strong, Kill Adam Smasher strong, take down Arasaka strong, cross the blackwall strong.
V never really existed! *gasp* (dramatic chipmunk meme)
...and it was the development version the player was experiencing. They took the editor interface and expanded on it, incorporating shackled generative algorithms to interact with the BDer.
Unfortunately, it caused extreme schizophrenia in the test subjects. A series of people exhibiting complete cyberpsychosis symptoms with barely any chrome started to show up in New Barcelona.
A young chrome-less orphan, who had gone missing, returned and claimed to be someone named "V" (and, occasionally, "Johnny"), speaking to people who weren't there and randomly acting hostile and pretending to brandish invisible weapons. The use of medicines only agitated the situation. The child is now a permanent (and permanently sedated) resident of el Instituto Mensalus, which occasionally results in mumblings about leaving Night City (assumed to be the city on the West Coast of the USA), heading to limited number of specific places in different ways.