One of the last PC-exclusive developers have officially stated that they will expand to the console platforms. In a recent
interview, Cevat Yerli, Crytek's president cited rampant piracy as the number one reason:
"It is certainly. We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable. I believe that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy. To the degree PC Gamers that pirate games inherently destroy the platform. Similar games on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more. It was a big lesson for us and I believe we wont have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore."
This is obviously very distressing news about the state of the PC market as a whole, but at the very least, Crytek will probably have to scale their engine down so that it works on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. That in turn means Crytek's next game won't have system requirements that require the power of the sun. Hopefully.
