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PC Gaming 'a Generation Ahead' of Consoles, Says Crytek Boss
Crytek co-founder Cevat Yerli spoke recently about the growing gap between modern PCs and consoles like the PS3 and Xbox 360, saying that the desire to develop for multiple platforms is hampering creative expression. "PC is easily a generation ahead right now. With 360 and PS3, we believe the quality of the games beyond Crysis 2 and other CryEngine developments will be pretty much limited to what their creative expressions is, what the content is. You won't be able to squeeze more juice from these rocks." One reason this trend persists is because of the perception that PC game sales are not high enough for most developers to focus on that platform. Rock, Paper, Shotgun says this indicates a need for the disclosure of digital distribution sales numbers, which could dispel that myth. Yerli's comments come alongside news of Crytek's announcement of a new military-based shooter called Warface.
Just look at the newest games and how badly they perform on supposedly "powerful" machines. These games are not more creative, just flashy and poorly coded.
Have you actually played any new games on a semi-decent machine? Apart from Crysis itself this phenomenon hasn't really been around for about 5 years. It used to be the case that a game would claim to run on (say) a 386 DX but in truth needed a 486, but those games are largely gone. My games rig is about 2 years old, and still plays anything new I throw at it very nicely. For $200 you can get a graphics card that will happily play any new game on the market.
Of course, some games offer 'ultra' graphics settings that might cause a mid-level machine to labour. But this is icing - these games look fantastic even at medium detail settings, and far surpass consoles at that level.
Yes I have. Why should a game like like Star Craft II require a Quad-core and 2 GB of ram to play on anything higher than 1024X768 with Medium graphics setting.
The there is Civilization V. Why should there be large hardware requirements on a "turn based" game? What the heck?
Please stop calling your gaming machine a "rig". It is a gaming PC, not a truck or a professional workstation.
I am sick and tired of nerds calling their PCs rigs and referring to their IT workplaces as a windows "shop" or linux "shop". You guys are not blue collar workers and you would be laughed out of any bar that had real blue collar workers in it.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Wii sales are dead, Nintendo lost several hundred million dollars this year, 2011 is projected to be worse for them. The Wii has the lowest game sales of any console, amazing considering the 2nd controller counted as a game. Furthermore, very few Wii owners use them after a few hours usage. Nintendo made a stack of cash by selling ancient tech with a new gimmick, right now they're very worried about their entire future and have nothing on the horizon other than a slightly tweaked DS, again. Try reading business reports instead of knee-jerk blogsphere nonsense sometime.