RSS
EA just announced Crysis 2 for PC, 360 and PS3.
No details, no media.
“The development of Crysis 2 marks a major stepping stone for our studio,” said Crytek boss Cevat Yerli.
“This is not only the next game in the Crysis franchise, it’s the first title we are developing for consoles and the first title being built on CryENGINE 3.
“We are excited to have the support of EA Partners again as we work together to make the launch of Crysis 2 a huge event.”
It’s a cert for the EA presser at 2.00pm PST today. Press release after the break.
EA PARTNERS AND CRYTEK ANNOUNCE DEAL EXTENSION FOR MULTIPLATFORM DEVELOPMENT OF CRYSIS 2
Next Installment of the Critically-Acclaimed Crysis Franchise will be First Game Built on Crytek’s Multiplatform CryENGINE 3 Technology
Redwood City, Calif. – June 1, 2009 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that it has agreed to a deal extension with Crytek GmbH, the award-winning developers of the Crysis® universe, to publish Crysis 2. Renowned for their technical excellence, artistic craftsmanship and commitment to quality, Crytek is building Crysis 2 on their new state-of-the-art multiplatform game development solution CryENGINE®3 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system, the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and the PC.
“The development of Crysis 2 marks a major stepping stone for our studio,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek. “This is not only the next game in the Crysis franchise, it’s the first title we are developing for consoles and the first title being built on CryENGINE 3. We are excited to have the support of EA Partners again as we work together to make the launch of Crysis 2 a huge event.”
“Nothing speaks more to the success of the EA Partners program than when a studio the caliber of Crytek continues to work with us,” said David DeMartini, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA Partners. “Crytek is already one of the elite PC development studios in the world and we are excited to have the opportunity to partner with them in bringing their award-winning technology and gameplay to more platforms and a wider audience with Crysis 2.”
Viewing 77 responses
Psychotext said:
lol… Nintendo feeling the heat? Their revenue in 2008 was around $19bn. That’s pure gaming revenue for one single company… without having to add up all the sales of business PCs to pad their numbers either.
blackdreamhunk said:
pc gaming hardware and software making alot more money than nintendo could only dream about.
how is “new consoles” coming along
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/05/e3-predictions/
you better enjoy them now because this will be the last generation of consoles ever.
yea i hear people are paying like $80 for a game lol what a joke.
hey if I ever wanted to play a game on consoles I would just rent a 360,ps3 or nintendo.
If I ever wanted to own a consoles I would buy a used one at gamestop.
yea you will be seeing alot more console game devs going bankuprt oo. lol what a joke!!!
Psychotext said:
Good god… what are you smoking? The next MS, Sony and Nintendo machines are in development right now.
As for PC gaming hardware sales, I think you’d better stop swallowing the PCGA numbers quite so easily. Those numbers are taken from PCs “capable of playing games” – which is pretty much every machine sold.
(Funny thing is, this PC marketing droid is arguing with someone who has always been a PC gamer first and foremost.
)
Blerk said:
Whatever happened to theevilaires? I’m having Vietnam flashbacks.
blackdreamhunk said:
yea I am sure micro soft and sony share holders are real happy these companies are losing billions lol
why don’t they give me the billions of dallers insted I can use it.
yea you can bet both console game devs and hardware companies are going to lose alot more money. lol
yea this what EA had to say about pc gaming
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ea-pc-games-console-downloads,7725.html
G1GAHURTZ said:
Do you know why devs are always looking for alternatives to PC?
One simple word.
Piracy.
Want to know why Halo 3 is the biggest earning entertainment release, ever?
Because if it was on PC, probably half of it’s sales figures would have dissappeard into the bittorrent wilderness.
Devs don’t want to make games for PC, and they don’t like the PC.
The only reason that the few PC only devs remain is probably because their games just don’t work on console.
Psychotext said:
Last I checked bdh, MS have been posting record revenue / profits over the last few years… and Sony are still profitable overall on their gaming division.
Shatner said:
This thread has LULZ
G1GAHURTZ said:
Just look at the console sales for COD4.
We’re talking about THE best selling FPS in history.
The vast majority are on 360, then PS3, then the former so-called king of FPS’s, the PC comes a distant 3rd.
If anything, the hardcore games are going exclusively to console, and the PC gamers are being left with solitaire and The Sims!
blackdreamhunk said:
yea pircay is much bigger on consoles here take a look at nintendo dsi and wii it’s in the billions. In fact there is a market for pirated console games
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Almost-1-Billion-Dollars-Lost-by-Nintendo-in-2007-78918.shtml
pirates don’t make money off of pc games. Then there is the used game market for consoles and rented games.
oh those figures for nintendo are old I’m sure thereis alot bigger figures
Psychotext said:
Shhh Shatner… arguing for the sake of arguing is fun!
Hey bdh, given PC game sales are so awesome, why are there only four titles that have ever sold more than 10 million? That doesn’t compare particularly well to the 20+ console titles that have done more than 10m.
Given there are supposedly 228m gaming capable PCs out there, that’s pretty poor indeed.
blackdreamhunk said:
yea them shooters like must games on consoles are a joke!!!
what does console have to offer action games? how about watered dwon rpg”s. Yea the mindless buttom mashing and reshaed gamesply is real great.
last time i checkd pc gaming has alot more genres and makes more than console easy
http://adrianwerner.wordpress.com/games-of-2009/
http://pc.ign.com/index/release.html
yea I don’t see any console games making 2.5 billion how 16 million, 7 milliion
Psychotext said:
“last time i checkd pc gaming has alot more genres and makes more than console easy”
You’re not checking very thoroughly are you.
But yeah, PCs are great if you like RTS.
So which are these PC games making “2.5 billion how 16 million, 7 milliion”
blackdreamhunk said:
lets see a console play TBS how abot a TBrpg oh wait they can’t.
do console even have a muder mistery game, about ocean sim. how about sims or maybe a space sim. I wonder does consoles have pin ball games. do consoles even have any ocean games?
yea what a joke!!!
here is a link you need to go read
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23748
Psychotext said:
Fish in a barrel.
blackdreamhunk said:
too bad this fish has some hard facts lol what a joke. you console fanboys are wasting my time come back when you have some hard facts next time.
G1GAHURTZ said:
What!?
Every single genre that you can think of that exists on PC is also available on console.
And if shooters on console are a joke, then why are more people playing them than on PC?
Why is the best selling and most played FPS in history way more popular on console??
Because PC’s days as a hardcore machine are fading fast, that’s why…
£300 every year for the latest graphics card with the most up-to-date version of DirectX…constant patches…aimbots and hax left right and centre…wait 6 minutes for your PC to boot up before you can even launch a single game…no single universal online community standard…cramp in your hands from pressing 10 different keyboard keys for things that only take one thumb on a console pad…restricted to a desk, can’t relax on a sofa…always need more RAM…fry your PC trying to overclock it because it’s 2 years old, which is practically ancient history…etc, etc, etc.
Nah, sorry.
Keep it.
Me and the rest of the hardcore gamers have made our choice.
Psychotext said:
“too bad this fish has some hard facts lol”
What, like the $68 billion PC gaming revenue?
***cough***
mayincludeallthenewbusinesspcssoldovertheyeartoo
pleasedontlooktoocloselyatthedisclaimer
***cough***
G1GAHURTZ said:
“I wonder does consoles have pin ball games. do consoles even have any ocean games?”
Are you serious?
Consoles have been doing these lame games since Sonic Spinball and Ecco the Dolphin on the MegaDrive!
blackdreamhunk said:
console don’t have any real games. enough said right there. Your hardcore games are a joke!
any game dev well tell you that it’s the very reason japan is so far behide the west too. lol
Psychotext said:
“console don’t have any real games”
Go and spend 10 mins on metacritic… I think it may open your eyes a little.
G1GAHURTZ said:
“console don’t have any real games”
You know what, for a while there, I was taking you seriously.
Now I see that you just have no idea what you’re talking about.
Good day, Sir.
blackdreamhunk said:
yea pc gaming has higher stanards then consoles gaming does.
metacritic is joke by the way
come back when you have so real facts. Even microsoft knows who has the best game around
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/39622/Microsoft-Explain-PC-Game-Release-Delays
it is found right here in this acrticle
Robster1979 said:
Blinded
Deluded
Hysterical
ShiroGamer said:
Tbh G1Ga,if u think piracy is the issue here
am sad to say that you listen to media too much
360games are all over the web before the official release date,and 360s are EASY to mod even the NEWEST ones,
the fact that people don’t do it more often is because A:they don’t know how or/what to do/where to
B:fear of avoiding the warranty
For example:take 3rd world countries
where i live,Egypt,the only thing bigger than PC and PS2 here is the 360 ,a year ago people didn’t even know that MS has consoles !
but now 360s are in A LOT of homes ,why ?
easy answer,u pay 50$ for a mod job that DOESN’T EVEN remove your warranty sticker because the guy who does it is more pro than you think he would be
A lot of my friends in the UK who have 360s modded em ,and YES they play online with some kinda stealth program.
so please if u wanna take this to the piracy angle,tackle it differently
no flame intended or attack ,for that matter
SwiftRanger said:
blackdreamhunk, just…stop.
Crytek made a decent buck on PC with Crysis and Far Cry but they want to sell more of course and they saw a really, really big challenge in making the CryEngine 3 run on current-gen consoles. Epic’s Tim Sweeney doesn’t even buy it that it’s possible btw, what kind of bigger motivation can you possibly give these guys? It’s something that might benefit the PC side as well with some better performance on multicores.
Besides, since there is no mention of bringing the original and Warhead to consoles these console gamers will want to try out those titles too once they finished Crysis 2. By then a PC that runs Crysis well will be absolutely dirt cheap so in the end PC always wins. Deep inside everyone knows that it’s still the most interesting platform there is…
G1GAHURTZ said:
It’s not that consoles are totally safe and secure, ShiroGamer, because they’re not.
It’s that PC’s are so easy to pirate for, that even your casual computer illiterate gamers can do it without too much hassle.
There’s virtually no point whatsoever in putting copy protection on any PC game, because all you need to do to bypass it these days is type the name of the game and “crack” or “keygen” into google and 5 minutes later you’re playing a free game.
Consoles are by no means perfect in this regard, but compared to PC, they’re a much safer option right now.