Crytek: "It Is Impossible" For Next-Gen Consoles To Match PCs

I don't think any sensible person would disagree with his comments. High end video cards cost as much or more than the usual cost of a new console. Unless MS and Sony are willing to take a thousand dollar plus hit per console, the numbers just don't work.

Imagine building a console to one particular generation of hardware, and then imagine the 5 or 6 years of advantage that the PC has as the gaps between newer and newer hardware. Each generation is almost twice as good as the last, and occasionally very dramatic breakthroughs raise the bar many many times. The Watson super computers NVIDIA GPU was recently improved and reduced to the size of a god damn pizza box! Technically speaking the PC will always outpace the consoles, but developers are still using the console specs as the gold standard. Also, no one is going to put the best hardware available in a console if they know that people aren't too keen to pay more then say 500 dollars for a new console, it wouldn't be sustainable, therefore it is always going to be inferior to the PC.

Imagine building a console to one particular generation of hardware, and then imagine the 5 or 6 years of advantage that the PC has as the gaps between newer and newer hardware. Each generation is almost twice as good as the last, and occasionally very dramatic breakthroughs raise the bar many many times. The Watson super computers NVIDIA GPU was recently improved and reduced to the size of a god damn pizza box! Technically speaking the PC will always outpace the consoles, but developers are still using the console specs as the gold standard. Also, no one is going to put the best hardware available in a console if they know that people aren't too keen to pay more then say 500 dollars for a new console, it wouldn't be sustainable, therefore it is always going to be inferior to the PC.

"Technically speaking the PC will always outpace the consoles, but developers are still using the console specs as the gold standard."

This is the cause of consolitis. Games which have their traditional home on PC don't work well on consoles. In other situations, games which are built around that development environment and interface don't often translate well.

At least you can use mods to fix that on PCs. Complaints about an obviously console minded experience only last until someone's made a mid to fix that.

Duh with a side of bacon.
As long as it's comparable to a decent rig at the time of release, it's fine.

I just don't get how games 7 yrs later don't run at 60fps+ consistently on a given console generation. Isn't development/engines fully optimized by that time to be able to achieve this?

It makes me rage that not every console game runs like Rage.

Whoops I dont think I meant to reply.

No. Most developers can be lazy and even a select group of them are bad at coding and optimization.

Seriously anyone who thinks consoles will ever be more powerful than a gaming pc is drinking the Kool Aid.

Glug. Glug. Glug... ahhh I love Kool Aid.

I didn't know there was actually speculation on whether next gen consoles would be as powerful as PCs... nor should there be. I don't think most console players would want them to be as powerful as PCs anyway if it would make the cost skyrocket. Besides, only console players who also play PC games would care, since console only gamers have no frame of reference. As long as the next Xbox/PS are better than the last, that's all that matters.

Yes. We, the great and glorious PC Gaming master race, will tarnish our minds with thoughts of the filthy console peasant no longer!

I have an HP ENVY H8 core i7 with a 32 GB kit of Hyper-X memory and a GTX 680. Basically, as long as you've got enough money, you can continue to have computers that more than outperform consoles.

I don't think this was really news to anybody. Still, I suppose it pushes it beyond the realm of rumour when a developer known for pushing high end graphics says it.

I'm looking forward to Star Citizen, I think it will really push what can be done with a high end pc & hopefully others will follow its example. I'm sick of seeing lazy models built for console spec with a bit of pc polish over the top.

PC's rule, consoles drool.


Fanboy: "You take that back, you old poopy head!"

lolz this is a pc gamer's wet dream.
If it weren't for the cost, I'd probably be pc gaming. But as it stands, I prefer to update my console every 6 or 7 years for half the price of building a pc myself. That way I stay out the red, have a ball with my mates on the couch and enjoy a nifty addition to my 'media' electronics.
If Sony price it right and indeed, make it better than the last, it's always an upgrade in my opinion

lolz this is a pc gamer's wet dream.
If it weren't for the cost, I'd probably be pc gaming. But as it stands, I prefer to update my console every 6 or 7 years for half the price of building a pc myself. That way I stay out the red, have a ball with my mates on the couch and enjoy a nifty addition to my 'media' electronics.
If Sony price it right and indeed, make it better than the last, it's always an upgrade in my opinion