While Sony has taken steps to ensure that the PlayStation 3 will be the longest-lived of current-gen machines, some developers can’t wait to get their hands on the next slab of hardware.
Speaking at the Game Convention Asia event, Crytek President and CEO Cevat Yerli has declared that the PlayStation 4’s specifications will shape all subsequent Crytek projects. Those specifications have to be announced first, obviously – anybody care to predict a shipping date?
"Frankly, we are linking ourself to what the PS4 will take up as [its hardware] position," Yerli told IGN. "That is the console makeup that will drive all our research, so we cannot wait to know what the [machine] will be about. That’s probably the most important missing information we have right now in our company."
Crytek tends to ask rather a lot of its hardware, with the formidable Crysis virtually unplayable on maximum settings whatever your PC setup. Small wonder then that they’re eager to get their hands on the latest tech.
Would you mind knocking together a console Crysis for us hardware simpletons while you wait, guys?