It is, of course, worth noting that devs at CDPR were already crunching to meet that previous deadline. Today’s announcement doesn’t mention crunch, but I’d be surprised if staff weren’t in for another three weeks of gruelling conditions to get this thing out the door.
God I hate the industry
Once you ship off the code to start being made in disks you start working on the day 1 patch. Even after the game comes out there will be patches coming out for a few months.