Will Crytek Quit PC Development?

Will Crytek decide enough is enough and fully abandon PC development?

Excerpt: "Crytek has already been burned on piracy, and they’re being burned again. If Crysis 2 is the blockbuster it’s expected to be on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Crytek might decide it’s simply financially unsound to develop games on PC like many others like Playdead (Limbo) have."

[NYC_Gamer]

the first Crysis,was leaked and still sold millions.so why would they quit?everyone just praying on the doom of PC gaming now days.

[JonahFalcon]

Millions?

The game sold 90K in the first two weeks, and took years to even reach 1M. Crytek abandoned PC exclusivity because of it.

[NYC_Gamer]

Crysis has sold 3 million+ copies...and the expansion sold 1.5.

Edit:
the game sold 1 million retail before the price cuts...but lets all ignore that...so 1 million is nothing now?

Crytek's first person shooter game, Crysis, has been reported for selling over 1 million copies in less than three month during the Electronic Arts third quarter earnings conference call yesterday. Even though the game has gone platinum, CEO John Riccitiello said that EA is "not satisfied" with the overall third quarter financial results. The company was disappointed that none of the big successes were developed internally. "We did not have any internally developed breakaway titles," said Riccitiello. "The closest thing we had to breakaway titles in 2007 were Skate and FIFA," he continued. Riccitiello expects Burnout Paradise to be another big hit, but he didn't give any more indications than that at this early stage in the game's shelf
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Face Palm

i thought it sold nothing in its first year?

[JonahFalcon]

AFTER IT WAS REDUCED TO $19.99.

In its first year of sales, it sold NOTHING.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007...

Of COURSE it sold after it was slashed in price by 1/3.

"It sold a ton for the 2 years after it was slashed to $20!"

No shit, Sherlock.

(face palm)

Crytek didn't quit PC exclusivity because they hated PC development.

[Charmers]

@ JonahFalcon - that 90,000 figure was a load of rubbish. The figures are from NPD which is the US ONLY. So in ONE territory Crysis sold 90,000 in the first week. Not only that but the US is actually the weakest territory for the PC. It would be like you looking at xbox 360 game sales in Japan and coming to the conclusion that represents the "world",

Crysis did damn fine sales wise with 3 million sold and a further 1.5 million copies of Warhead sold as well.

The reason Crytek quit PC exclusivity is because they can. There is nothing to stop any developer from dropping PC exclusivity, there is no PC platform holder willing to pay for exclusivity like Sony and Microsoft are.

If you look at most exclusives on the consoles you will find they are either exclusive because the console maker stumped up a crap load of cash or the console maker stumped up a crap load of cash and bought the developer. That kind of thing does not happen on the PC therefore PC developers are free to do what they want.

[NYC_Gamer]

@Charmers

that dude is just another bandwagon journalist.who types out his ass about PC gaming which he knows nothing about...i already proved him to be wrong about Crysis,selling nothing in its first year.everything he writes is anti PS3/PC.

[FantasyStar]

1. You were proven wrong by Charmers
2. Ever stop to think people didn't buy it cause their hardware couldn't handle it?

[Xfanboy]

I just want this game to sell like crazy on pc!!

off topic:
Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
$7.50 on steam!! :) A new deal everyday all week long!!

[RedDead]

Chance's are the console versions will get leaked too. As usual.

[JonahFalcon]

Yes, but in order to run a pirated game on a console, you have to mod the console first. And with the 360 (and now the PS3), your modded console will get banned from online play.

PC piracy? Install and go. No fuss, no muss. Why bother getting out a soldering gun to wreck your console when you can just download and play?

Again, Crytek ALREADY decided to quit making just for PC because of piracy.

[zslash]

Erm, the hacks for this generation of consoles are ALL software based. PC piracy is not install and go : you need to apply a crack usually, which is just about as difficult as enabling piracy on a 360/PS3.

[plb]

@zslash a crack takes about 2 seconds to apply =\

[zslash]

I know, but that was in reference to JonahFalcon's comment -- he makes console piracy sound insanely complex. It's not.

With the PS3 you just download a modified firmware, place it on your USB device of choice and install via the storage option in Network Update... bam your console is piracy enabled. It's not any more difficult than installing an OFW, which is unfortunate for Sony.

[Pandamobile]

Crytek quit developing PC exclusive games for two reasons:

1. They want to sell their engine. You're not going to sell a whole lot of licenses if your engine only works on one platform.

2. They want to sell more games. Why sell 3 million when you can sell 6-8 million?

[Letros]

Did the author really just compare Crytek with Playdead?

The number of speculation articles coming out from this unfinished beta leak is laughable.

[plb]

Abandon? Doubtful though I do suspect they will focus more attention on consoles but not because of piracy but because their is more money in them than PC games. I used to be exclusive PC gamer years ago and so did many people I know but these days most people I know game on console. I only know 2 others that game on PC and they play CS every now and again. PC gaming is not what it once was. I purchased Black Ops on PC a while back because the PS3 version was so screwed and there is barely anyone who plays it and it is the 2nd most popular game on Steam. When I played Blops on PS3 it had over 800,000 people online playing. PC has like 20-30,000. Another example is Rockstar. They don't release games on PC till like a year later because they know they will be pirated like crazy.

[LMS]

all that matters to me is crysis 2 on pc DESTROYS everything you will ever see on this gen of consoles,

killzone 3....keep freaking dreaming

uncharted 2 and 3.....WRONG!!

nothing will ever come out on ps3 that looks even close to crysis 2 on pc, crysis 1 on pc, metro2033 on pc, dirt2 on pc, hell 50% of AAA pc gamesreleased in the last 3 years own 99% of all console games...

have fun playing in dirty ass 1996 720p for the next 4 years,.....lol...gross

[TABSF]

Yep

Killzone 3 only comes close to Crysis at medium with lighting and depth of field on high.

Now with Crysis 2 I would say at low on PC it will look equally if not better than Killzone 3.

[Zinc]

Generally speaking, companies that make a profit from a particular market, don't stop selling to that market, as it would be an unsound business practice.

Since Crysis (a PC exclusive) made Crytek money and it's fairly safe to assume that Crysis 2 will as well, I don't see this happening anytime soon.

[whydoyouask]

Impossible, i'm getting sick and tired of these fucking hack blog writers sharing their stupid 2 cents worth of opinionated shit.

Why would Cry abandon the only platform that can run their engine to its max settings? Why would you abandon the huge modding community they get. It's they same reason why Bethesda has Skyrim on all platforms (except the Wii) so they could sell more copies, but PC gamers get so much more content do to its communities, and aside from level editors on the consoles for very little games on the 360 (and maybe Ps3) the PC community shoves out more free content than anything the consoles could get.

Idiot...

[TABSF]

All this rage and Crysis 2 leak only reached like 10,000 Downloads

I got the leak but I'm also getting Crysis 2 Limited Edition maybe Nanosuit Edition, plus I also want the Steam version.

Most people out of the minuscule 10,000 downloads just wanted to see it.
Now knowing that the leak at maximum graphics setting was actually locked at medium I can't wait to play this at Very high, 1920 by 1080 and DX11
http://img829.imageshack.us...

Also don't forget this is old build beta so probably better optimisation, drivers to increase performance and it already is running at great performance.

Crysis 2 at Medium is like Crysis on high/very high.
Wow can't even imagine what high and very high will look like not to mention ini tweaks.

[LMS]

yes...crytek will stop developing for PC because they love making 720p games with jaggies all over the screen and tons of texture pop-in, that's why they got in the business, to make last gen, muddy, 30 frame per second games.....

WRONG!!!

they are only making console games to make more money to work on the cryengine 4, and you won't see that on this gen of consoles.

NEWSFLASH!!!
this just in;
http://n4g.com/news/700299/...

[led1090]

pretty over-hyped shit i must say:p

[earbus]

next gen is just around the corner .