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Crysis to be demoed on consoles
DESPITE PREVIOUS CLAIMS that its super-duper new gaming engine was far too complex for current-gen consoles, Crytek will nonetheless go ahead and announce its conversion to multiplatform at the Game Developer's Conference in February.
In a closed-doors presentation, the company said that it will demo Cry Engine 2, which powers its shooter Crysis, on Xbox 360 and PS3. The move will spark renewed speculation that a console conversion is on the way which, let's face it, was always likely anyway - particularly given the game's relatively poor financial showing for EA over Crimbo.
A relatively-faithful console conversion would be a kick in the teeth to PC owners, many of whom spent hundreds of pounds upgrading their rigs to get decent frame rates out of a title that was, by many insider accounts, horrendously non-optimised in the rush to hit the shelves. If the game is "optmised down" to run on a £200 console, questions will be asked about its relatively poor PC performance.
But such talk is mere speculation. We'll have to wait for GDC to find out what Crytek actually plans. µ
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Gordon

If Quakewars can run on linux so can crysis. It wouldnt be a port from the PS3 to Linux but porting it to Linux means the OpenGL calls are there and it would be rather easy for them to compile it for a new linux distro at the same time. RSX or not.
Well, what can I say, if someone sells rocks with a shiny brand with the price of its weight in gold, soon there will be fanboys for it.
Why is it when an increasing number of console games go cross platform to increase revenue no one says anything, but when a PC game does it's the end of PC Gaming! OMG !!1!

How many games are actually exclusive today? By developer choice and not Sony/Microsoft incentives?

Either way engines are designed to be scalable, especially PC orientated engines. Why is it so surprising that this engine will run on a console? It's not like it's minimums does anything consoles can't, it was like the over reaction to Unreal Engine 3 running on the Wii, it will run but how do they expect it to look? 

360 getting the Crysis engine doesn’t automatically mean it will get/can run Crysis, you are not going to squeeze a 8800ultra busting game onto a 2+ year old console GPU. If you could we would be seeing games of that detail level by now.

Either way I seriously doubt Crysis will appear on consoles for the exact same reason Fary Cry had to be remade before it appeared on consoles. If it does it will be funny to see how much they will have to tone it down, it will be like HL2 on the first XBox all over again.
Yes mycelo but then you found every game costs the same as the aforementioned graphics card and you were back to square one.
Utter nonsense. This is the world's most advanced game engine. Crytek always said that very high settings were for future hardware. Crysis runs perfectly well and still looks gorgeous if you adjust the graphics settings sensibly.
When my current rig started to show its age, specially when I tried Crysis on it, I went to buy a high-end console, which costs about the same as those super-duper video cards (or less). Fck exclusive PC games.

Suddenly all games run without worries about drivers, background programs, hardware brand, OS optimization, disk space, viruses, patches, cracks, incompatibilities for all tastes, etc. You put them there and they just run.

Why the hell we might care about all this stuff? Playing games is something that's supposed to be fun, but PC games just lost this concept somewhere in time.

So yeah, bring Crysis to us, we won't have to sell our mother to play it in all its glory.
MammothTruk

PS3 can run Linux, and OpenGL, however Sony hasn't opened up the RSX to developers in the Linux environment, so it's unlikely that performance would be sufficient under Linux.
The problem with the PC gaming industry is that they let the consumer pump up the graphics beyond the capabilities of the machine it runs on.

With a console, the resolution is fixed (720p at best) which is much lower than the Crysis whiners try to run it at. Plus, most of the "optimizations" have to do with lowering polygon counts or otherwise making the game less graphically awesome.

I used to work at a gaming company and all that needs to be done IMO to fix the "ZOMG this game breaksors my 10,000 computer it must be a piece of crap" is to not allow unlimited resolutions and graphics capabilities by default.

Seriously, set the default 4:3, 16:10 and 16:9 resolutions at something much lower and require the user to edit an ini or conf file to "unlock" higher resolutions. If they don't know what they're missing or understand that they've chosen to run at details higher than "intended" people will be a lot happier with their computers.

I personally have quite a powerful gaming rig (thanks to my time in the gaming biz) but i regularly run my widescreen games at 1280x800 or 1440x900. Every time i see these "benchmarks" of people running at 1920x1200 with AA and AF cranked up getting 15fps i die a little inside knowing that they're just creating the FUD that drives people away from PC gaming towards the 480p/720p 1080-upmixed world of console gaming.
seeing as how the PS3 runs a version of OpenGL on some kind of Linux OS would that mean a possible Linux port could happen?

I know Ubi doesnt do linux games but good god that would be great.