Croatian gaming mag PC Play has a revealing interview with Crytek president Cevat Yerli, in which we find that piracy is forcing the German studio to develop multi-platform titles.
We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable. I believe that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy. To the degree PC Gamers that pirate games inherently destroy the platform. Similar games on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more. It was a big lesson for us and I believe we wont have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore.
Crytek’s move towards console gaming is no surprise, as we learned that CryENGINE 2 had been successfully ported to consoles earlier this month; but what is surprising is that the CryENGINE’s premier title, Crysis, won’t be making the same jump:
PC Play:You confirmed that it’s impossible to make Crysis run on an console, but yet there are constant rumors that it’s nearly inevitable. Can you finally give us, our readers, and the industry the final answer on that matter? Is Crysis going to be ported to a console?
Cevat Yerli: Crysis as we have seen is impossible. Crysis would have to be largely changed to bring it to Xbox 360 or Playstation 3. Crysis is designed to be PC Exclusive. Our internal focus is not linked to bring Crysis to consoles.
No matter how much you might have been looking forward to the port, Crysis is just one game; the lack of a solid port will be forgotten with time.
But if you recall why it is that Crysis wouldn’t work on consoles, and read between the lines here, you arrive at this potentially painful conclusion — in order to work with the least common denominator consoles with limited memory and no hard drive, future Crytek games will be dumbed down on PC as well.
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