IGN: Crytek says New Engine in 2012 (Crysis)

[TheNewsGuy]

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Speaking at Games Convention Developers Conference 2008 in Leipzig, Germany, Crytek CEO and President Cevat Yerli said the studio's next engine should be ready for sometime in 2012.

As of right now, he says, the degree to which graphics can represent real-life is bottlenecked by a lack of new hardware. He says GPU and CPU technology are converging, evident in the new technologies in development at Nvidia and ATI, as well as what Intel's doing with Larrabee.

Until the growing trend of CPU and GPU convergence is more defined, developers will have to focus on increased graphical stylization as well as more advanced physics and AI programming...


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[bladecx321]

According to Crysis statistics, I'm not sure the new engine will be a "good idea" if you will. Many people couldn't play crysis at all, due to the extremely high requirements for a no lag, decent quality expereince in Crytek's Crysis. By the time the new engine is finished in 2012, ofcourse there will be better hardware, able to play the games developed with the engine. Yet, as we all know, that hardware will be on the higher price range, just as the high end hardware was when Crysis was released. I guess it really all depends on if the PC gaming community grows or not between now and 2012. Will people be willing to spend the money to upgrade their PC's for the games created with Crytek's new engine? As we experienced when Crysis was released, some did. But, as I said above, will the gaming community continue to grow or shrink? If it grows I'm sure many more people will be willing to do the upgrade. If not, then Crytek is "wasting time and money" on this new engine.