Rumor: Crysis shown on Xbox 360 to 'prospective publishers' at GDC
by Ross Miller 
{ Mar 4th 2008 at 7:25PM }
This is far from a confirmation; the Crytek rep may have misspoken. Furthermore, we'd be surprised if Crysis PC publisher Electronic Arts didn't have the foresight to secure rights to the console game as well. We do know that Crytek planned on showing off a console version of CryEngine 2 (which runs Crysis), and although the assets were likely Crysis, perhaps the prospective publishers were just looking for a game engine.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
fischju @ Mar 4th 2008 7:31PM
My $800 PC can't run parts of this game very well.(Actually, the ice part that that screenshot if from.) I bet they knock off a lot more than 60 pixels to make this work smoothly.
Can't wait to see how many slowdowns/crashing you get with 5000 barrels in the 360 version...
Vidikron (FU) @ Mar 4th 2008 7:42PM
I'm pretty sure they 360 version isn't going to have the 5000 barrels physics demo in it.
fischju @ Mar 4th 2008 7:44PM
I was hoping the whole console would catch on fire/blow up
DangerMouse @ Mar 4th 2008 8:09PM
Red Ring of Fire!
LameDuck @ Mar 4th 2008 9:13PM
Going down down down and the flames were ah-risin'...
idiot @ Mar 4th 2008 9:30PM
DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT BELIEVE PRIMOTECH. They will say anything to gain your trust and then you'll end up waking up on the floor somewhere with a pain in your neck and two days of memory lost.
happened to me once
Boostjunkie @ Mar 4th 2008 9:52PM
You would be surprised how much power they can get out of a dedicated system like the 360. A PC is much less efficient with tons of hardware configuration and OS overhead. The 360 video card is actually pretty advanced, it's not just an off the shelf card like in the PS3.
Nate @ Mar 5th 2008 8:29AM
Don't be an idiot, boostjunkie -
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSX_%27Reality_Synthesizer%27
"The RSX 'Reality Synthesizer' graphics processing unit is a graphics chip design co-developed by NVIDIA and Sony for the PlayStation 3 computer console."
Not off the shelf at all.
bigsofty @ Mar 5th 2008 12:19PM
Your the idiot... from the page you quoted...
"
In August of 2005, an nVidia spokesperson was quoted in PlayStation Magazine as saying "the RSX GPU is basically a slightly less powerful GeForce 7800"
"
Dan CiTi @ Mar 4th 2008 7:53PM
Old news. Everyone knows a somewhat toned version is coming to PS3/360 sometime this year(summer-ish probably).
Eggy @ Mar 4th 2008 7:55PM
Well according to console gamers on joystiq Crysis is crap and it will probably not sell at all. :S
Dan CiTi @ Mar 4th 2008 8:09PM
I'm sure it'll sell just fine. If not, Crytek will go Nano Suit-Nazi on our asses.
Spooner @ Mar 4th 2008 10:06PM
As a console and a PC Gamer... Crysis IS crap.
The whole idea of the nano-suit was cool and all... until you find yourself constantly standing around waiting for the suit to charge.
Ihavepants @ Mar 5th 2008 1:59AM
Spooner, Crysis wasn't crap.
Granted the last few levels were not good. The rest of the game however (whilst playing on Delta) was extremeley fun and immersive to play as a stealth game.
I can understand why people might not like it if they played it like they were Rambo though.
caramelzappa @ Mar 5th 2008 2:58AM
@Spooner
The point of the nanosuit needing to charge is that you need to be able to manage the power in it like you manage resources in any other game. So apparently you sucked at being frugal with your energy, that doesn't make the game suck.
I personally thought the AI was horrible. Difficult, but not realistic. They all had some sort of uber x-ray vision and could shoot with perfect accuracy from miles away. They were completely blind when you're cloaked, but even if they're looking away when you uncloak they knew exactly where you were? Especially the hellecopters. It ruined the campaign for me, but I still play the multiplayer.
LameDuck @ Mar 4th 2008 7:55PM
I would like to take this moment to say... told you so.
"Let's port it to the PS3 where there is no DirectX support and we will have to rewrite the engine to fit around the POS known as the cell. :3" - Unknown Crytek Dev
Eggy @ Mar 4th 2008 7:58PM
Wow your name really tells alot about you.
Killer @ Mar 4th 2008 8:58PM
About LameDuck...
"Wow your name really tells alot about you."
When the United States Congress meets following the general elections? I don't get it. He's a group of overpaid,ego driven, soulless lawyers?
LameDuck @ Mar 4th 2008 8:59PM
Because it would be logical to think they would port a DirectX game to a console that supports DirectX? Hmmm... OH! And don't forget the devtools MS provides to make such a project possible. :D
I'm not saying it won't be on the PS3. I'm saying it is foolhearty to think they would just pass up the 360 when it would be, in all logical views, the best platform to start the porting on. Oh well... I'm going back to XNA now. Call me when Sony lets me access the full hardware under Linux.
Yubastard @ Mar 4th 2008 9:21PM
While it is true that Sony has locked the GPU in the PS3, it has been told the Cell processor is quite efficient and powerful enough to be used as a graphics processor in the PS3, esp when emulating.
I bet it can be enough for any game you are trying to cook on your own. Only if you knew how to code around something other than XNA, which is awesomely simple, you'd know that you could write shaders that calculate on the SPUs. Killzone 2 devs know this, they merely get bling from the GPU, icing on the cake, if you will.
LameDuck @ Mar 4th 2008 9:31PM
Sony couldn't pull good graphics out of the Cell, so I'm sure I can't.
But yea, I know I could make a game under Linux just as well as XNA. I have the knowledge and skills. I want to do that too, but I need a reason to spend 400-500 bux on a new system. Even if I had it, I want access to the full system using Linux, not just the Cell which, but some accounts, isn't fully unlocked. I wish it would happen... :/
Matt B @ Mar 4th 2008 9:40PM
Within the next couple months, DX10 will be obsolete.
http://www.khronos.org/developers/library/2008_gdc/Khronos%20Ecosystem%20GDC%20Feb2008.pdf
MS has kept some of DX10's APis' under closed doors for too long almost like it is proprietary. So much of the industry has moved towards a new OpenGL years ago and the new VECTOR GRAPHICS BASED standard is almost upon us. Games can now look as good from $10,000 PCs dow to PDAs since the graphics a vector based and scalable.
"Because MT Evans completely replaces DX10 features and adds features the Manufacturers have already built into their cards and are also contributing members of OpenGL. Microsoft locked those features out forcing their own standards!"
And it has come back to bite them.
MGS4 and KZ2 are the last 2 PS3 games to use any of the DX9/10 features. Everything else coming out are in the new OpenGL.
Matt B @ Mar 4th 2008 9:43PM
In an addition to my post... It also is going to drive development costs down. :)
LameDuck @ Mar 4th 2008 9:57PM
You, sir, just made me wet myself with anticipation.
One question... DriectX on a PS3 game... Wut?
Zeus.:God @ Mar 5th 2008 3:45AM
That was Sony's original plan- to only have one processing chip, and that chip was the Cell... However, the Cell wasn't as powerful as they thought (and not really the overwhelming factor compared to the Xbox 360's tri-core setup, and as a matter of fact, nearly dead even with it), and the plan tanked, so they went to Nvidia... Nvidia gave them get GPU from the 7800GTX with slightly higher clock speeds and redubbed it the NV47, while there are other subtle changes.
But, the point I'm getting at is no, the Cell is not a viable graphics source when it comes to gaming.
Oh, and by the way, Matt B, DirectX 10 will be here to stay for quite a while.
Antifanboy @ Mar 20th 2008 2:22PM
there is Direct-X support actually. it was in an update just after Christmas.
Mr.ESC @ Mar 4th 2008 8:00PM
I love my xbox 360 but I would be afraid of running Crysis on it.Hell the Ps3 might look good but I doubt is going to look as good as the PC version.
Well only time will tell.
xFenixKnightx @ Mar 4th 2008 8:03PM
Only time will tell indeed. I really want this to come out on 360. Crytek needs to optimize the engine up the anus and hoepfully we can get a great game running at a decent 30fps.
DangerMouse @ Mar 4th 2008 8:21PM
It's not like they ctrl-c ctrl-v from the pc to the 360. They'll probably utilize certain tricks on the 360 that weren't as necessary on the PC. Remember, the PC version has to be scalable so it'll work on many different combinations of hardware (for example, the demo's playable on my 2.4ghz, 768MB ram, ATI 9700 on low) with an operating system and other shit running at the same time. With the 360, they're all the same, so they only have to focus on certain areas where the game might become unplayable, and figure out another way to make it work.
They wouldn't develop an engine from scratch and only use it on a PC. Licensing engines is huge business for them, so showing that it's capable of working on consoles is very necessary.
Also, if you plug your 360 controller into the PC, and run crysis, it detects it from the get-go, with all the buttons mapped out, rumble included. I'd bet that the engine was developed with the possibility of porting to the ps3 & 360.
ExMcloud @ Mar 4th 2008 9:30PM
I wouldn't be afraid at all....Honestly I've been waiting on a game to show what the 360 can really do...I guess Crysis will show us sumthing.....Decent game should sell well on both consoles
gregory mitchell @ Mar 4th 2008 8:00PM
Umm Id hate to hurt you guys feelings but xbox is more powerful than the average pc people currently have at home. and especially when you consider all the processing is dedicated to gaming unlike a pc which has all types of background processes running
austin @ Mar 4th 2008 9:17PM
people that play crysis do not have average PCs
capt_carl @ Mar 4th 2008 9:48PM
@austin:
Rate-up my friend, rate-up. I play Crysis on my C2D Conroe 2.66GHz with 8800GTS's in SLI. It plays at Very High...but in a window at 1280x720. But it plays WELL like that! :D
xFenixKnightx @ Mar 4th 2008 8:01PM
Bring it on baby, you know we want it!! I know EA loves da $$$ right? So, get to it mofo's!!
ApolloIV @ Mar 4th 2008 8:05PM
I wouldn't doubt it. The game sold like dog droppings on the PC but was a pretty good game in my opinion. No reason not to port a "lesser" version to 360/PS3 where there is a better chance of it selling like it should. Hopefully this time when i say something positive about crysis I won't get burried under the earth :(
Einhanderkiller @ Mar 4th 2008 8:39PM
The game has sold over a million and is continuing to sell.
ExMcloud @ Mar 4th 2008 9:33PM
Im pretty sure it shipped 1 million....I don't know if it necessarily sold a million...I gotta see some proof of that
Spartacus @ Mar 4th 2008 8:17PM
Wasn't it just yesterday Sony fans were claiming the 360 couldn't handle this game?
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/03/rumorang-ps3-crysis-will-be-50-new-game/
Talk about coming full circle...
Of course Crytek themselves said NEITHER the 360 NOR the PS3 could handle Crysis, so I'm pretty sure someone's pulling some shenanigans...
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/30/crytek-says-360-and-ps3-cant-handle-crysis/
LameDuck @ Mar 4th 2008 9:17PM
Because when you see it you turn 360 degrees and walk away.
Mr.ESC @ Mar 4th 2008 9:27PM
LameDuck is Fail.
It is "Because when you see it you turn 360 degrees and MOONWALK away".
NF FTL.
LameDuck @ Mar 4th 2008 9:53PM
Please tell me you are not serious... PLEASE tell me you are just being a troll...
dernet @ Mar 4th 2008 10:23PM
@Lameduck: You're not too good with degrees are you?
LameDuck @ Mar 4th 2008 11:47PM
Thats the joke, dernet... ._.
Dan CiTi @ Mar 4th 2008 8:26PM
Meh the 360 & PS3 couldn't handle the DX9 version of Crysis on very low everything.
Rollins @ Mar 4th 2008 9:17PM
Talk out your ass much?
quickshade @ Mar 4th 2008 8:29PM
It's the engine. We already knew it would be an easy port to 360 (with direct X support and all the development tools MS has to port games) I think PS3 will still get the engine, but with major rewrites it could take a while.
GaryM @ Mar 4th 2008 9:45PM
They're demoing the engine, not Crysis.
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Mar 5th 2008 10:05AM
The engine, which crysis runs on.
Autopsy15 @ Mar 4th 2008 10:02PM
Even if they did port it over to a console, it wouldn't be the same game at all. It would have to be completely revamped. It would be like putting Halo 3 or Metal Gear Solid 4 on a DS or something. It would come out as a completely different game. Undoubtedly, it would also look less sexy and run at a very base framerate, < 30 fps most likely.
License to ill @ Mar 5th 2008 9:38AM
Yeah right here some PC news for ya...
http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=165488
Bioshock sold 5 to 1 on consoles vs pc.
CoD4 sold 10 to 1 on consoles vs pc.