8 Times Video Games Proved You Wrong

2. Cyberpunk 2077

If you'd told the gaming populace of 2015 that CD Projekt RED's followup to The Witcher 3 would not only be a catastrophic letdown for millions of fans; not only a lied-about hodgepodge of promised and still-pending features; and not only a game so broken on last-gen systems, Sony wouldn't even sell it over Christmas, you'd rightly be asked if you were confusing them with Bethesda.

But no, with the only negative entry on this list comes a staggering fall from grace for a team who proved us all wrong in the worst way possible.

The cross-media promotional campaigns where everything from Keanu Reeves' motorcycle company to artists like Run the Jewels and Grimes were launching new music in tandem with the game. The clothing lines, big Christmas bundle deals, Xbox marketing partnership programs to sell Series systems alongside the game.

ALL of it imploded when the bottom fell out, as the base game just couldn't maintain quality across the board.

To this day we're sizing up the pros and cons of such a misaligned product and project, and in retrospect it remains one of the most public gaffes in gaming history.

Here's to Cyberpunk's patches, DLC and next-gen revamps proving us wrong again. The opposite way, this time.