Plus I mean to be fair, most of P5's time in the sun came in 2017. Royal had added new features, songs, characters, locations and a whole new semester with new dungeons. Which is massive, but majority of P5 is "old" stuff so that's the only real reason why it seemed to have died down. And because FF7R dropped maybe like a week or so later, which was way earlier into 2020.
Actually, 2020 in gaming seems like you could split it in half, because most people think about TLOU2 and GoT in terms of this year when we had other games out too.
That's why the "broke nikkas" argument is dumb, because for one thing, most people aren't going to drop $500 during the holidays right away because they've got other places to place that money in (like gifts for others). Another is because of the pandemic, and employment across the board isn't at all like 2019. And third, even if you wanted a PS5/XSX, they're hard to find currently because of the demand. A PC is even less likely, because how many people are going to buy a gaming rig just for Cyberpunk? Certainly can't be that high of a number. There's not even really that many next-gen games out, so being a PS4 player doesn't really feel like you're missing out.
Plus we didn't even see these consoles until the summer. As it stands, right now there's no next-gen version of the game, it's all backwards-compatible with the console's own technology boosting things.
It's still 100% on CDPR because even if they knew they couldn't manage to get it running on last-gen consoles, they STILL shipped it out for them anyway. People shouldn't be shamed for buying a game and playing it on a console which the company promised it would run perfectly fine on. That's not fair. People will come up with all kinds of excuses like "Oh well it's a super dense and next-level game!" and it's like... Okay, so if that's true and they're saying that... And they've never touched a single code of the game, imagine what the developers would say. And the company still shipped it out, knowing that. That's even worse. Especially when no reviewers had a console review copy at all. They knew, and I'm glad they're being held accountable for that shyt.