Crytek CEO: Crysis could 'theoretically' be on 360 and PS3

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Jul 31st 2007 at 8:30PM }

In a world where games often find themselves running on platforms they weren't really meant for -- Doom on your iPod, Viva Piñata on your Xbox 360 -- it doesn't come as a terrible surprise when Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli declares, "Theoretically, anything could run anywhere." Speaking to the UK's PC Gamer Magazine (via CVG), Yerli asserted that his company's graphically splendorous PC shooter could eventually find its way to high-end consoles. "Crysis could be on the 360 or PS3," he said. "It requires optimisation, that's what we've always communicated."

However, technical feasibility doesn't guarantee a thing and confirmation of console ports remains elusive as ever. "What you would not do is make Crysis on PS3, 360 and PC for a single shipping date, because we would lose the quality focus," Yerli noted. "So I say, 'First PC version, then we'll see what happens.'" If Epic's Mark Rein is to be believed, what happens is that Crytek considers downscaled console versions of Crysis in order to capitalize on a market outside of cutting-edge PCs.

[Via X3F]

Tags: Crysis, Crytek, EA, FPS, Outcry

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Matters @ Jul 31st 2007 8:34PM

Viva Pinata wasn't meant for my Xbox 360? Did you mean DS?

Gavin @ Jul 31st 2007 8:40PM

Perhaps they just meant that the 360 is aimed at die-hard gamers and Viva Pinata was sorta lost in the suffle on that console because the target audience of the usual owners.

Or perhaps it was just a mistake...

Matters @ Jul 31st 2007 8:46PM

oh hmm good point.

Zeus the God @ Aug 1st 2007 4:22AM

It was originally going to be PC only...

Shawn D @ Jul 31st 2007 8:41PM

Can't wait to get my hands on this game, for PC of course. As long as this game comes out with a decent SDK and is well optimized for the PC, the consoles can have their port for all I care. I don't know a single PC Gamer that would give two shits, so long as our beloved platform doesn't get hosed like it has been getting over the past few years thanks to the 360.

AoE @ Jul 31st 2007 9:08PM

I thought your beloved platform was getting hosed because it's one of the least popular/profitable to put games on? At least, that's what the folks at Epic seem to think... and ID, if memory serves.

SeriousKriss @ Aug 1st 2007 6:10AM

@ AoE : Mark Rein's comments don't change the fact that UT 2004 sold much more than any Xbox iteration of the series. I think Blizzard and Valve would also completely disagree.

Jake @ Aug 1st 2007 8:28AM

The PC platform is not that healthy right now for game sales. While some gamers feel the PC "is getting hosed", I don't know if I agree with that. Since getting a PC game to work on 360, and vice versa, is fairly easy, one could argue that each platform is getting more games than they would have otherwise, since their combined sales can equal profit.

And if you don't think the PC market is a hurtin' a bit on game sales, check out this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_selling_games#PC'

I am not sure exactly how accurate the list is. But, the 360 has had about 7 or 8 million plus sellers in the last 1.5 years. The PC has had, well, see for yourself. My understanding is that Oblivion sold more copies to the 360 than the PC as well, though I'm not positive on that. And UT2004 doesn't show up on the list.

Piracy is hurting the PC more than the 360.

SeriousKriss @ Aug 1st 2007 10:09AM

@ Jake : PC games sales have been growing steadily, just not as fast as console games sales that's all. Don't trust the NPD data that is US only and ignores online sales.

colin @ Jul 31st 2007 8:41PM

that box art is sexcellent ...

he he he, balloon knot, he he he

hvnlysoldr @ Jul 31st 2007 8:42PM

1 Samus on the box art is not enough however.

colin @ Jul 31st 2007 10:06PM

i confused

colin @ Jul 31st 2007 10:08PM

ok, i get it now ... gotta love google

James S. @ Jul 31st 2007 8:49PM

I can't imagine it's not coming to 360 and PS3. EA didn't get to where it is today by not having its developers put their games on every system.

Dr Science @ Jul 31st 2007 8:51PM

Yeah and "Theoretically" this game would run more stable on a Xbox360 or PS3 compared to Vista.

Neebs @ Jul 31st 2007 8:54PM

The same Vista I've had that I've not had any BSODs or system-wide crashes with?

Zeus the God @ Aug 1st 2007 4:25AM

Yes, the same system. Dr Science isn't a Dr, and doesn't know what he's talking about because he's ignorant trash.

Just low rank him and move along.

Grant @ Aug 1st 2007 10:20AM

yes, it would run more stable... as long as they test it enough, which no one ever does with a port.

as for Vista, i don't know why people love it so much, i've managed to make it crash multiple time, programs designed for it constantly hang, and the most recent Nvidia cards, which SHOULD have support out of the box have alot of issues.

i would expect that kind of performance from a box that was upgraded to Vista, not one that is a month old and has a 5.6/6 "vista readiness" rating.

i think peoples main grudge with vista is vista only games. Why push people to upgrade their OS when they don't need to just to play the latest game. THAT is simply bullshit.

blooh @ Jul 31st 2007 8:55PM

well i sure hope this comes to 360, because I'm not getting vista for probably 5 years

Shawn D @ Jul 31st 2007 9:01PM

You don't need Vista people, It will still be the best looking game on the market in DX9 running XP as well.

Spartacus @ Jul 31st 2007 9:02PM

I'm not sure why everyone seems to hate Vista. In my experience, which has been with every iteration of Windows since 3.1, Vista is by far the most stable and user friendly. Sure it's a resource hog, but not leaps and bounds more so than XP. After using Vista Ultimate and getting Office 2007 for free at an MS launch party, I'd never go back. Granted I haven't tried gaming on Vista yet, but it can't be that bad...

Dan @ Jul 31st 2007 9:14PM

People like to moan about things which are unavoidable and totally commonplace.

Before service packs, all windows versions have kinks to work out.
Add to that the fact that many 3rd parties were frankly criminal in their lack of driver support for vista. For god sake, beta drivers for my sound card for vista only just came out!! and its one of the most expensive sound cards you can buy.

People focus their hate at microsoft because ms are an easy target, they've done some things wrong in the past, and people automatically assume that microsoft is the likely culprit in any problem they have with their PC.

Einhanderkiller @ Jul 31st 2007 9:25PM

I'm not sure why everyone seems to think that Vista is a resource hog. It fills up your memory because it's caching; doing this will help Vista load applications faster. It's a technique that's already used in OS X.

Avatar @ Jul 31st 2007 10:32PM

The reason I personally don't like Vista is because I got the chance to test the OS a few months before it was released (it was a co-op placement at IBM), and IMO, and everyone else's who tested it, Vista should have had at least 6 more months of development before release, but that's Windows. They release it early then patch the fucker for a year or two afterwards.

bender @ Jul 31st 2007 9:07PM

This is a really high end game. I always thought that Crysis was too high end for the even the 360 or ps3. Maybe I was wrong.

flameofdoom666 @ Jul 31st 2007 9:21PM

I always thought so too... Unless they make it sub-par compared to superior PC one?

Shawn D @ Jul 31st 2007 9:23PM

Bender, I would suspect that this will be a Farcry situation where the console versions of the game will not be made by Crytek, and it will look and play drastically different. The whole point of this game is to max out DX9 and DX10 on PC's. It's a GPU seller that hopefully exceeds in other categories.

Smoke_Dawg_187 @ Jul 31st 2007 9:24PM

I hope this game come to Xbox 360. This looks like such a great game.

GG @ Jul 31st 2007 9:26PM

They better put it on the consoles, because not everyone is going to spend 2500 dollars on a new PC, just to play one game.

That's just a waste of money, IMO. There's more important things in life. Heck, 600 is too much for a console.

Raikage @ Jul 31st 2007 9:28PM

Here's hoping for a Wii port!!!
XD

Snoopy @ Jul 31st 2007 9:29PM

Crysis is so advanced that on the 360 or PS3 they will have to turn it into a 2D side-scroller just to make run at 30fps.

Slvrgun @ Jul 31st 2007 10:23PM

No it will only run 30fps on the PS3, the Xbox 360 version will run at 60fps.

Martez @ Jul 31st 2007 9:42PM

Crysis could run on 360 or PS3 easy. It just won't for a while because, like Shawn D said, it's a GPU seller first. Once it accomplishes this task, developers will magically be able to recreate it on much cheaper systems.

Raikage @ Jul 31st 2007 9:57PM

HAHA exactly!

Mr Khan @ Jul 31st 2007 9:58PM

I swear i've seen this article somewhere before...

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/10/06/crytek-revises-claim-crysis-could-be-ported-if-we-wanted/

The circle is now complete

blooh @ Aug 1st 2007 1:42AM

when i left you i was but the learner
now i am the master

BPM @ Jul 31st 2007 10:05PM

I guess they're not sure if they can make enough money back from the 5 people with strong enough PCs to run it.

(I keed, I keed)

bender @ Jul 31st 2007 10:29PM

I'm hoping they port it to the 360 as well. I want to play it but I'm not getting a new PC anytime soon.

Car2oon @ Jul 31st 2007 11:14PM

Ah, so they realized they wanted to make money?

ejordan @ Jul 31st 2007 11:26PM

Crysis will get ported, and it will look pretty good, I think. I don't believe there is a dx 10 market big enough for such an expensive (to produce) game.

Even if there were a market big enough to rake in the cash, why not port? You'd sell a bunch of copies just because people heard the game was badass on the pc. If they are good developers, they'll max out the consoles and it'll look better than previous games. That would sell.

michas_pi @ Aug 1st 2007 12:04AM

Hooray. Crysis on 360 = graphical downgrade to DX9

mr nimblewick @ Aug 1st 2007 1:11AM

Generic sci-fi shooter starring man in armor? Check. On xbox360? Check.

All is normal.

blooh @ Aug 1st 2007 2:23AM

apparently you haven't heard just why crysis is so awesome

Spartacus @ Aug 1st 2007 2:23AM

I guess you failed to notice that the only great launch title for the PS3 was a sci-fi shooter while two of its most anticipated upcoming titles also happen to fit into this category (KZ2 and MGS). Though MGS is technically an "action/adventure/stealth" game it still is quite sci-fi with a man in armor as the protagonist.

Did you know that Ninty fans are also frothing at the mouth for the next Metroid? I guess these new fangled sci-fi shooters are quite the sleeper hit.

Zeus the God @ Aug 1st 2007 4:37AM

Apparently he hasn't, blooh. Please, allow me to educate him...

Why is Crysis going to be so fucking awesome? Simple, HUGE fucking environments, in which you can go nearly anywhere you want. Everything you encounter in these environments can be interacted with and will be treated physically JUST as in real life. You walk into a plant? The leaves brush against your body, and move around your body. You're firing a mini-gun? The trees with splinter and get cut down where they are shot, realistically. Nearly everything is realistically
destructible. Not to mention oh so many game play changing variables, such as powers from your suit, that you switch on the fly... Wanna' run fast? Cool, but you're suits energy is removed from armor, to your legs, allowing you to run extremely fast, so you better be sneaky. Thats the type of thing that makes Crysis so awesome, not to mention, on top of all wonderful physics, the graphics are outstanding.

Educate yourself before you make a blind and stupid statement.

mr nimblewick @ Aug 1st 2007 10:23AM

Are you serious? That's what all the hub-ub is about? So it's a shooter with a large environment and leaves that move when you touch them. Wow.

What an incredibly useless path video games are going down. Thank you for proving me right.

Spartacus @ Aug 1st 2007 2:34AM

As a side note, since this game has a reputation of being a GPU seller and a high end game utilizing DX10, it is interesting to see that all that graphical wizardry fit onto a single DVD9 disc- unless Best Buy and Amazon haven't updated their info (which is very possible).

Tell me again why I need a high capacity optical drive to enjoy truly next gen gaming experiences?

Mikeo @ Aug 1st 2007 4:11AM

Totally!

Crysis has so much texture variety that it could easily outdo any *ahem* PS3 game. It's their machine that's the limiting factor, and on the PC where you have Geforce 8800s it's nothing.

And the realtime cutscenes probably look better than any of those on consoles too.