Crytek Boss: "Impossible" For New Consoles to Beat PCs

[kajinking]

As a member of the glorious PC master race all I can say is "BOW TO ME PEONS!!!!"

Joking aside I'm all for PC gaming setups getting cheaper and cheaper, makes upgrading my current rig easier and even better it expands what we can do with gaming in general. After playing games like Supreme Commander, the first Cysis, Planetside 2, and massive games like EVE Online I'm very much of the opinion that gaming can do great things when the full force of technology is put behind it.

That being said I'm not gonna try and even say consoles are dying since that's not gonna happen, PC rigs are great and all but they do cost a good chunk of change up front and while most times it's worth it in the end with steam sales a good number of people simply do not have that type of money. Also consoles are great if you simply don't feel like dealing with hassle of fixing and maintaing a PC (took me three months to figure out why my rig kept crashing). I'm a PC gaming now but I still love my old 360 and can remember opening it up for the first time on Christmas and playing Fallout 3...ah good times.

 

[RA92]

Honestly, I don't care and neither does Yerli since the baseline hardware requirement for his retail AAA games will be consoles. And the only reason he's gone back to praising the PC is because of his recent success in the F2P market with Warface.

Anyway, what attracts me towards the PC market is the openness, where you find stuff ranging from fan-made MMO of a favorite franchise (StarCraft) and multiplayer mod of a beloved open-world game (Just Cause 2) to the resurrection (heh!) of dead console games (Resident Evil 1.5). Yeah, visuals are great, but visuals became irrelevant to me since the PS2 era, as long as the game has good art direction. Quite a few might agree - just look at the retro-graphics boom on the PC (and other platforms), for Christ's sake.

CryEngine 3 is damn nice, though.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

The only reason you would need a $2000 PC is if you had 3 monitors with 3D on and 16AA and shit. My $300 PC made Skyrim look gorgeous with mods at 1080p, everything ultra. If this guy really wants to talk up what PCs can do, talk flexibility. Choice in input method, graphics settings, and everything else. Waving the "you need a $3000 PC lol" e-peen around just scares people away from considering the PC as a viable platform.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

the trouble with Consoles and even a number of current PC games is that the machines we play them on are far more powerful than the games actually allow. We are bottlenecked by directX limitations in order to allow older machines to run the games smoothly, and consoles having the same hardware across the board (per platform, of course) makes it easier to go with the downsized performance over reaching true potential.

 

[FalloutJack]

Gimme a break. Computers are built for a wide variety of functions and do them all well, as per the sum of their parts and programs. (This includes games.) However, consoles are built FOR GAMING. Add all the features you like, such as movies and internet or anything else, but the fact is that they are made to play games, specifically. If your game cannot run on a platform whose life goal is this one thing, them perhaps your game has problems.

In short, get over yourself, dude.

 

[DSK-]

Blah blah blah glorious pc gaming master race blah blah consoles suck blah graphics are everything blah blah blah.

That's all I'm hearing from this.

And it is glorious! All hail Emperor Yerli! \o/

 

[bafrali]

Did we really need a confirmation from Yerli though. Of course custom built racers have higher performance than your mass-produced family cars.

 

[sXeth]

Yeah, you can't make a 3000 dollar piece of machinery that requires technical know how to assemble and configure for 3-500 dollars pre-assembled and guaranteed to function for anyone.

That wasn't obvious why?

Even going on pure graphics, art style will trump hyper-realism efforts. Even in the super high end Far Cry demo they showed before "reducing" it to console levels, I could completely tell I was watching a game and not a live action movie (nevermind real life).

There's a lot of the games industry that thrives on making these benchmark tech-demo type games, but they generally aren't the titles people end remembering, nevermind playing later.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

Its one thing for big developers to make obvious statements. Its another thing when we keep seeing people report on said obvious statements.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

Gimme a break. Computers are built for a wide variety of functions and do them all well, as per the sum of their parts and programs. (This includes games.) However, consoles are built FOR GAMING. Add all the features you like, such as movies and internet or anything else, but the fact is that they are made to play games, specifically. If your game cannot run on a platform whose life goal is this one thing, them perhaps your game has problems.

In short, get over yourself, dude.

Consoles ARE built for games, but if you look at consoles nowadays, they're trying to make them more like PCs, and failing, I recently bought a computer, cost me $400(canadian) can run EVERYTHING, and lemme get this clear, even without an actual graphics "Card" it runs shit on high with ease, this is running an AMD APU with a shitty little 6550 built into a quad 2.9ghz cpu, 8 gigs of ram... $400, bought me a computer which currently kills the consoles out now, 10+ times over, and y'know how long it took me to assemble it myself? about 30 mins, including installing windows on it, downloading drivers for everything and configuring it all to my liking.

Now, when you think about complexity, the assembly took less instruction reading and less figuring out than your average lego set, the settings and drivers and stuff have installers on a disc that comes with shit, so updating them automatically is easy as fuck, and for your average person who carries a smartphone, a smartphone is harder to put the settings right on than my computer.

So, what's wrong with a developer, asking the companies that shoehorn old pc tech into a box, call it something fancy and sell it as a gaming console, to maybe at least give those consoles a bit more oomph to run some more complex games? NOTHING.

Your post, in this way says volumes, I couldn't run skyrim on a NES, which was designed entirely for gaming, or even an n64, or the original xbox, or a ps2, shit evolves, get over it, buy a pc.

 

[The Lunatic]

I'm a PC gamer.

Annddd, I think this guy is beating a dead horse.


Yes. Consoles that are built once and never upgraded, cannot compete with a constantly evolving formate where you can pay whatever you want, for whatever hardware you want, and run things with ridiculous particles, physics and post-processes.

Denying that, is stupid.

Saying it doesn't matter is stupid.

Saying it doesn't matter to you. That's fine.

But, it's insane to argue that a consoles can be competitive even a year after their release.

It's simply not the case. You may not care about graphics, you may prefer consoles. That's absolutely fine.

But, that doesn't make them better. It just means you less picky.

I'm not saying this as some "PC MASTER RACE" kinda guy. I seriously don't care what my games run at, as long as it's playable. It's just an undeniable fact, that more power, is better.

 

[Lunar Templar]

slow news day is it? cause this is like reporting the sky is blue.

I'd be more apt to finish reading it but

Blah blah blah glorious pc gaming master race blah blah consoles suck blah graphics are everything blah blah blah.

That's all I'm hearing from this.

this gent summed up the whole thing nicelly

 

[Something Amyss]

Yeah, but the real question is: Why would people want to run this game in the first place?

To prove their system can run it.

Other than that, there's...

Yeah, I'm out of reasons.

 

[lacktheknack]

Blah blah blah glorious pc gaming master race blah blah consoles suck blah graphics are everything blah blah blah.

That's all I'm hearing from this.

Which is hilarious, because they were totally "consoles all the damn way" a couple years back.

See? YOU CAN'T PLEASE ANYONE THESE DAYS.

OT: Awesome. I'll check it out after I next upgrade.

 

[Dryk]

Yeah, you can't make a 3000 dollar piece of machinery that requires technical know how to assemble and configure for 3-500 dollars pre-assembled and guaranteed to function for anyone.

If you can manage to plug in a console you have 90% of the technical know-how required to assemble a PC

 

[Signa]

I think the factor most everyone is missing here is that there's not really any difference between a PC and a console now. Back in my day, a PC running your Lucas Arts adventure game of choice was a completely different animal than the SNES running Mario and Final Fantasy. Fast-forward to today, and there's not really any reason to own both, just one or the other. Sure, there's a few exclusives, but even so, those games are hardly different than another similar multiplatform game.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

It's not like Intel and AMD are willing to secretly develop hardware better than anything on the market and help Microsoft shove it into a $500 box.

And Crysis games are boring anyway. Might as well be a Michael Bay movie.

 

[Twilight_guy]

What if I don't want to pay for a 2000$ computer to play your games? What if I want to buy a 500$ console and 1500$ worth of games... that's at least 25 games assuming I don't buy older or sued games as opposed to one game and a PC that will be outdated in 6 months.

Of course this is the guy who has a goal of developing thing for the highest rated and most overcost hardware as opposed to say, the equally noble goal of optimizing something to run on lower end systems.