Laurent Hogue

514 = area code for MONTREAL only :D

HD-DVD drive. Maybe, one day. But in the short term, another controller.

Crysis will never be ported to the 360 and the PS3. Here's why:

1- It takes 4 years to Crytek to do a game. They works only on one game at a time and they does not have the experience of a major studio. Crytek is like DICE or Polyphony Digital: they had one brilliant idea... but only one. They don't know how to program on other consoles and since they are expert in their field of knowledge, it will be too difficult for them to bring their flagship product to a console that is basically a downgrade of a pc will all the limitation it requires.

2- Ubisoft bought Far Cry and ported it to the xbox. My insider sources told me that they tought, at the beginning, that it would be easy (pc to xbox). It finally took them 2 years for Ubisoft Montreal (creators of Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell) to port the game. They made a marvelous game (9.2 on Gamespot) but they paid the price (in development cost). Do we really think that Crytek, a company that is not able to do a game for the mainstream hardware, can port their high-end game to another entirely architecture?

3- Crytek is aiming for a minimum requirement of 1024 megs of RAM, several gigs of space and the latest videocard on the market with, maybe, some temporary files on the hard drive for the PC version of Crysis. To make a game runnable on a console, the engine, the sound and the texture must be loaded IN RAM because the DVD drive can't stream the data fast enough. The memory gap between a 360 and the PC is simply to big.

4- DirectX 10 is only available for PC and to my knowledge, not included on the 360. Crytek will offer a DirectX 9 version of their game but I can assure you that no DirectX version will run on the PS3.

5- My excuses to the lead artist, but in a game running on a console, what takes the most part of the RAM is not the textures, but the engine.

6- Crytek, as DICE, just don't know how to optimize a game. Heck, DICE released the BF2142 demo for a whooping 1.1 GIG. Dude, a demo. Okay, it's a weak argument, but Crytek never proved the contrary on that one.

Matt, it won't work: the XY position is returned in a register by an internal function of the hardware. This function will calculate the median point of all the clicked zone so theorically, if you click on the far left and at the same time, at the far right, the calculated touched zone will be at the center of the screen.

Looks like a level in Burnout!

A little competition is not bad, space must be open for everyone...

Geez!

"please don't nominate anything more than once!"

For what use?

Seriously, I'm curious to see what kind of application will emerge from that API. Everybody is raving about the big G (with reasons) but except in a kind of encyclopedia or content application, I cannot find any valid concept where to use the API. As a webmaster, I will not use it to provide new links for my visitors because I will loose them for another site. Of couse, for Wikipedia or Encarta, it's a must-have... but what use can you make from it for smaller websites?

It should be easy for them to get this website down since "google" is not a common word.