Crysis - Official System Requirements

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    You create a great game and people will buy the equipment to run it, or enjoy it on a smaller scale or a few months later.

    The problem here is that most players can't even "enjoy it on a smaller scale", and won't probably enjoy it in a "few months". Your aiming the game for a market that doesn't exist, and if you look at it the game will actually cost around 350€ for the average player, since you need to add the game price to the hardware upgrades you need to make. I'm not sure if that many people want to spend that much just to play one game. We will just have to wait and see, bot it seems that many people share this opinion.

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    Yep, there are gamers/consumers worldwide who do not use Steam. Vavle's survey sample size is 1,092,762. 9 million WoW players worldwide suggest that there are more than ~ 1million PC gamers. So what % of the total pc gamer market does the Valve # represent?

    In my pov that only means that 1,092,762 actually accepted to participate in the survey, not how many use steam. To know that you would kneed to know how many people bought games from valve, which i think is much more than that (but obviously less then those who play wow ).

    Quote from FrieChamp

    newsflash:There are gamers/consumers out there who do not use Steam.

    was that my point? no.

    It was just a more represantive stat than asking intel and nvidia "Wanna have a cup of tea and a cake and tell us everyone needs new graphic-cards?"

    These past two three months, almost every one I know have upgraded their PC to high end shit. You guys complain that most people don't have pc for this kind of game, but then again, if it weren't for games like this we'd still be stuck with a 386 playing new iterations of doom.

    Why would people want to buy a direct x 10 PC if they were going to play direct x 9 games with it?

    c'mon people, think.

    Just the fact that Crysis will be able to run on a direct x 9 pc, except it wont have all the destructible stuff is just pure awesome. Just think of how many people that will purchase this game, notice how long it's been since they upgraded their pc and go out and do it. Just to play this game.

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    Why would people want to buy a direct x 10 PC if they were going to play direct x 9 games with it?

    The world doesn't only consist of rich gaming enthusiasts and developers who are willing and able to spend money on high end hardware :roll:

    Quote from FrieChamp

    But this is not the philosophy of Crytek. It's not about looking at the clientbase of the competition and build a game optimized for their PCs, this is about setting a new benchmark in FPS gaming (and a new franchise), in the footsteps of FarCry (which was quite hardware demanding back in the days as well). You create a great game and people will buy the equipment to run it, or enjoy it on a smaller scale or a few months later. And it's not like you're going to buy the rig for "just for Crysis", equally demanding games will follow its release sooner or later, but somebody has to give it a head start otherwise everybody is just treading on the same spot!

    I agree. Crysis is a pretty awaited/hyped game and even if not that much people actually improve their computer to be able to play it, it'll probably push the computer market one step forward in next-gen hardware features.

    When 14yrs old Jimmy goes to the supermarket with his father to buy a family computer for Christmas, he'll ask if it supports the latest next-gen games they are buying aswell. If not, he'll sure convince dad to put in 200€ more and have a computer that'll be on top *for years*!

    I think games such as and following Crysis will have a similar (even if lesser) effect that all the Vista-Ready stuff has had on the minimal hardware sold in your local store: a small sticker "Next-gen games ready" might not be out of the question, if it doesn't exist yet somewhere.

    That being said, I don't know much about hardware and my computer was cheap 3 years ago, so don't beat me too hard!

    It seems as though Crytek is trying to get ahead of the market. Sure, these are insane specs now, but 3, 4, 5 years from now, the market will be at that level, and maybe/probably the console market as well. Then Crytek can say "Hey, we have this badass engine ready to go, and already fully featured."

    It might not make a lot in the short run selling to the hardcore bleeding edge market, but if it can wait it out for a few years, it can make a lot in the licensing market.

    12 GB is nothing, really. Plenty of games are that size nowadays, and I have stuff on my HD thats twice to three times as big as that.

    In our current age of consoles, we need pc games that push the boundaries, and make people upgrade (and thus keep the whole push for better graphics going - no need for more power = no sales for nvidia and ati = the whole thing slows downs)

    Most games are just ported over from a xbox360 nowadays, they are limited by what the xbox360 can offer in power. We need games that arent influenced by that crap, and which truly deserve the title "pc game", but that does has a price... The same is true for UT3.

    You guys are complaining about the 12 gigs it takes? That's nothing, you can buy storage for cheep now, I would figure you people would be more like me and be saying how we need a new video card and or processor! I will be able to play on low with decent settings until I get a better video card in the near future. I have an old Radeon x1800 256mb.

    Yeah, not surprising they're getting big.

    Although this doesn't apply to the 360, don't forget PS3 games come on fucking gigantic Blu-Ray discs, which is like 20-40GB; this means developers are going to start getting used to including superb quality assets, especially with the PC having the brute strength to show massive-resolution textures and such.

    They aren't going to expect PC gamers to have Blu-Ray players any time soon, but they're probably going to more often than not span their games over multiple DVDs and just have them installed onto your HD so they have as much room to play with as they would on the PS3.

    Only speculation of course, but I can't see this not happening. Although really, with current hardware I don't think they'll come close to actually needing a full Blu-Ray disc.

    Quote from Sindwiller

    The world doesn't only consist of rich gaming enthusiasts and developers who are willing and able to spend money on high end hardware :roll:

    you'right, obviously. But the people that buy games consists highly of those two.

    Quote from Skjalg

    The world doesn't only consist of rich gaming enthusiasts and developers who are willing and able to spend money on high end hardware :roll:

    you'right, obviously. But the people that buy games consists highly of those two.

    Sure, but lots of people still don't have enough money to enjoy Crysis at a high level

    Quote from Corwin

    I agree. Crysis is a pretty awaited/hyped game and even if not that much people actually improve their computer to be able to play it, it'll probably push the computer market one step forward in next-gen hardware features.

    When 14yrs old Jimmy goes to the supermarket with his father to buy a family computer for Christmas, he'll ask if it supports the latest next-gen games they are buying aswell. If not, he'll sure convince dad to put in 200€ more and have a computer that'll be on top *for years*!

    I think games such as and following Crysis will have a similar (even if lesser) effect that all the Vista-Ready stuff has had on the minimal hardware sold in your local store: a small sticker "Next-gen games ready" might not be out of the question, if it doesn't exist yet somewhere.

    That being said, I don't know much about hardware and my computer was cheap 3 years ago, so don't beat me too hard!

    No you are right, this is exactly what I mean. Also in response to e-freak's post - many of the people on this board started to play FPS games with half-life and probably even more with games before that, but if you think about today's teenage generations, these guys first action games are halo 2 or Gears of War! The 14 years old (or most likely slightly older..rating *cough*) going to Wal Mart to see what games are available for their new PC.

    In fact there is already something like the stickers you are talking about, it's the "Games for Windows" shelf. These games meet special requirements and are tagged by Microsoft, because they realized that the PC as a gaming platform has fallen behind after pushing the X-Box so hard.

    Of course all this corporate talk, by the hardware manufacturers, microsoft as OS distributor or Crytek the software developer, is spawned by financial interests, but us gamers profit from the new technology as well.

    Quote from Pericolos0

    The world doesn't only consist of rich gaming enthusiasts and developers who are willing and able to spend money on high end hardware :roll:

    you'right, obviously. But the people that buy games consists highly of those two.

    Actually thats not true at all.

    Well, guess my opinion is a little biased since I'm from Norway and every kid I know could go into the "rich gaming enthusiast" group...

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