Rumor Mill: Crysis Coming to 360 in November?

January 2nd, 2008 -- Gaming Today reports that an electronic store in Austria, GamesOnly.at, has among its various listings of Crysis for PC a couple of listings of Crysis for the Xbox 360. The most interesting detail to note here is the release date given for those: November 20, 2008. (Click on the image below to see the full Crysis listings at the store.)

[Capt CHAOS]

easy(ish) port from PC with lots of rendering options turned down..

[MrWonderful]

maybe this is the big thing gates will announce @ CES

[socomnick]

when is ces

[gta_cb]

be careful asking that kinda question, i lost a bubble and got some disagrees because i asked that exact question in that other article about the big announcement lol

but yeah i would like to know aswell pls :)

[marinelife9]

Jan 7 - 10th. Although some events will be held Jan 6th. Sorry you received grief for such an innocuous question.

[PlayStation360]

why give nick, gta, and marine a disagree. They gave honest questions/answers :(

Wait... O_O does this mean since I commented along them... I will get disagrees aswell? :((

*sadly looks in the direction of the "Disagree" number*

Edit: DAAAAAA..... There it is! :O

[Omegasyde]

=> is going to CES ;)

[Mr Marbles]

I could see this happening, after all 360 does have what many call DX9.5, and the 360s attach rate is tempting to a lot of developers, there is a lot of money in 360 development right now. It would be a quick and easy cheap port, money in the bank. PS3 on the other hand, now that is not likely to happen.

[gta_cb]

lol yep there it is the 3 disagrees that i got... the thing is, the disagrees are complete bullsh!t as i can prove i got disagrees and a bubble taken off me for asking as i can refer to the page with the disagrees and a screen shot of before i asked the question lol. some people on here are soo ... strange

[led1090]

lol it is not coming to the 360 this is probably a mistake

[f7ss1]

but i dont see why not it could come to consoles, not as pretty as the pc though

[Texas GMR]

be a timed release, first on Xbox then later(2009) on the PS3, it could be a very strong contender against either Killzone 2 or MGS4.

[HarryEtTubMan]

If it is.. it's on the PS3 too

[MK_Red]

Hope it's true. Can't wait to finally finish Crysis. For anyone who couldn't afford a mega expensive PC to play games, this is great news/rumor. Nice find.

[cyprus]

Lol, mega expensive. You can play this game very nicely on medium-high settings for $650+ pc. And I'm sure it'll run better than on any console.

[Bubble Buddy]

that's not expensive? o_0. people were complaining when the ps3 was 550. A pc is diff but u gotta keep upgrading it.

[f7ss1]

see this happening, but it probly wouldnt be as pretty on the pc as usual. its likely that theyd make a ps3 version too

[Jandre02]

huge advantage for xbox360. Hope PS3 can get the porting thing down soon as well. But honestly, with killzone 2 and socom coming, i really dont care anymore about shooters.

there are way too many already. It might sell on the Xbox360 though, but I really am looking forward to a worthwhile KH or FF RPG game. All these shooters are all the same to me.

[f7ss1]

we need something fresh and new

a disagree that we need somthing new? lol

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

One because your a Droid and everyone seen though the BS, two you said "fresh and new" while talking about Killzone 2 and SOCOM which are sequals. <--- How can they be fresh and new? Crysis is fresh and new because it's a new IP. Now head on back over to the PS3 side you PS3rd Droid, your last place console is calling and that old B&W war movie Killzone 2 needs someone to add color to it :)

[Doctor Strange]

It could happen for the 360 and/or PS3 since PC sales are quite what they expected it to be.

[ReBurn]

That's because nobody has a PC that can run the game at full spec. The current generation of consoles can probably do an excellent job with the game. My opinion of that "not possible on consoles" line is that it was it was pure marketing spin.

[BIoodmask]

EA would just lower the settings on the 360 port. It would also make sense bc porting things from PC to 360 is a fairly quick and inexpensive process.

Not to mention Crysis hasn't been selling that well. So EA will want to recoup investment costs.

[Gondee]

They sell there engine out to other companys. From what i hear thev already paided for the game.

[Feihc Retsam]

Thev prolly already PAIDED for it with licensing of the engine fo sho dawg........ what?

[ThaGeNeCySt]

I wonder how the game itself would turn out if this is true

[gta_cb]

agreed, but people who are saying it wont be as pretty as on PC although im agreeing with you im not saying it wont look good as when developing for a PC you have to remember the devs know exactly what hardware people are using so the codes will be tight whereas with PCs they have to offer something to users with PCs which are not top of the range. so yeah this is a thought.

[TwissT]

It does make sense EA loves money, so I guess making it multiplat will make them have more.

[heyheyhey]

i think it will get ported simply because of the poor sales (due to not many people having competent enough pc's) and the publisher behind it- EA and badly-selling exclusive really dont go well together also crytek have said that the consoles can run it without any major reductions in quality

[gta_cb]

yay! lol hope your not telling fibs cos i would like to see how this runs on a console :) my mate has a Pentium D and i think a Nvidia 8600 or a 8500 and it starts to lag when he is in fights lol i was watching him play and had to start laughing :D

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

Well if it is being ported, chances are it will be on both ps3 and 360, from what I heard some Sony devs were a part of the team which made the game, so it will only make sense.

[Feihc Retsam]

But please provide some links to where you read that some SONY devs were part of the Crysis developement?

That just sounds like some bullsh*t comment you came up with imo

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

Well thats what some people said, all I remember was Sony having some part in Crysis development.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Link please, no link? wanna know why you have no link? because that link is a figment of your imagination like all that BS you just said. Have a nice day :)

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

There was actually a story of it on n4g, just too lazy to find it.

[Noodlecup]

This most likely will come to the 360, DX9 and low detailed graphics. Crysis didn't sell too well on PC, they need to make up their losses by doing a port.

[led1090]

this us sales thing is bs acc to me pc games sell mush better in europe then they do in the us proof is cnc3 it sold just 128k copies in the us and more than a million worldwide

[Forbidden_Darkness]

the xcrap 360 couldnt handle this at all, without it looking like crap. only the ps3 could handle something so beautifully graphical as this.

(i bet xcrap fans will beg to differ, but they are completely wrong.)

[GITPWNED]

never heard of DX10? PS3 can't do anything like that. M$ invented DX10. PS3 is sh1t, you sony c*ck sucker.

[Mr Murda]

Thanks Man. It's been a while since I updated my "ignore" list.

[Forbidden_Darkness]

was i even talking about the DX10? i was talking about your crappy console. you xcrap fans always bring up something else, when i not talking about that.

i see you guys have so much desperation for games like metal gear solid 4 and now crysis. that just goes to show that you have crap for games next year and want some of our amazing exclusives. get over the fact that your console is crap and is going to fail next year.

[ambientFLIER]

The Xbox 360 could easily handle this game. Of course, not on the highest settings, which even PCs cant handle, but at medium it would run and look very good. You know why? Because it's basically a 3.2 Ghz PC with basically the same coding. ZOMG, imagine that.

The real question is how many frames of animation would the PS3 version lose? Orange box, anyone?

[J@D]

Way to pretty to be true. I mean there not "actual" confirmation from crytex or EA(mothers of the ports on the video game industry). Because this store mentioning don't mean is true. But, I like the fact and the idea ^__^

[TheIneffableBob]

If the past is any indication, "announcements" from game stores are not to be trusted.

[kevanio09]

The PS3 wouldnt do any better handling of crysis than 360, they both have an asbysmal amount of RAM available and their graphics cards are poor, crysis is already optimised to run over multicore processors, so porting to the 360 would be relatively painless...although it wouldnt run well, pushing low- medium settings on a low res with a poor frame rate. The more likely option is the crysis : instincts would come to the 360/ps3, a more linear game, spin off maybe.

[THAMMER1]

In 2004 Far cry was on my Original XBOX. This may be a rumor but I think Crisis is possible on a console with 3 cores like the 360.

[TheIneffableBob]

That was a spin-off, and was really nothing like the original Far Cry. The levels were linear, the graphics had a different style, and the gameplay was more run-n-gun.

[Bombomb]

I don't see what else is there that would be a barrier.

So to start off the New year, Xbox 360 is getting MGS4, Crysis, new rpgs and a bill gates secret.

Riiiiigght

[Nameless]

If you ask me I can see Sony & Microsoft agreeing on something like Final Fantasy & Metal Gear Solid 4 goes to the 360 & Mass Effect & Bioshock goes to the PS3 almost a year later from original release dates. Because in the end everybody would win. The time of exclusives are over if you ask me.

[Lotto]

There will always be exclusives as long as the console makers have their own game developers like Microsoft Game Studios. Also it doesn't make sense that Sony and MS would make a deal like that. Sony dont own the rights to MGS4 they dont own the studio that makes it so they cant make any decisions like what console its gonna come out etc.

[aiphanes]

Final Fantasy 13 is not comming to the Xbox 360..

Gears of War 2 is not going to come to the PS3.

[GITPWNED]

stfu

[gta_cb]

going a bit off track arnt you? this thread is only about Crysis

[miked808]

Can anyone honestly tell me how many of these Retail announcements actually come to fruition.

[mintaro]

i hope its true, but can the 360 run crysis, or will it be a scaled down less impressive version

[GITPWNED]

Of course it's coming to 360. It sold like 4 thousand units on PC. Now that Xbox consoles have Direct-X 10 and HD graphics, the PC is a dead fad.

[devilhunterx]

can you direct me to any article which says Xb2 has DX10 capabilities. Thanks

[Charlie2688]

I can guarantee you that regardless of Crysis coming to the console later on or not that this particular case its a mistake by the page considering that we on N4G have already seem this same sort of mistake 6-7 times if not more with other games that were proven a mistake by the page and were later removed

remember MGS4 360 pre orders in that UK store? that according to the forum people was true cuz it had a release date? and later was removed with a clarification it had been a mistake and peoples money were returned?

or how gamestop had for a LONG time Crysis under PS3 and 360? later to be removed? I remember people posting similar articles on how being listed on Gamestop was a confirmation

[Noodlecup]

Xbox 360 does NOT have DirectX 10 because it does not have capable hardware you idiot.

[zonetrooper5]

I think the 360 has bits of DX10 but not full DX 10. It could come to the 360 and PS3 but it would not be the same game. Also, PC gaming will not die out and don't give me crap like upgrading every 6 months.

[killing_Art]

at least, ps3 has a secure title from crytek, you know, the job thing in their website, just hope it uses cry engine 2.

[Noodlecup]

The xbox 360 was rushed out in all of it's unreliable glory before directX 10 hardware was available, it doesn't have "bits" of it and it simply cannot render games using DX10. It can use DX9 like everything else, Crysis can also run in DX9 which is why crysis on 360 will be possible (and underappreciated by the idiot userbase)

[ravenguard88]

The Xbox 360 has it's own version of direct x that is above 9b but below 10. I has many of the features of direct x 10 and even some 10.1 capabilities such as tesselation.

[Rice]

Doesnt the 360 have some capability's of Directx 10, hope it turns out a success cause i really liked that game for pc.

[cuguy]

http://www.1up.com/do/newsS...

@noodlecup

the 360 GPU is capable of somethings the DX10 gpus are not, and vice versa. Like the folks at Crytek have said in the past, it CAN be ported to next gen consoles, 360 included, with nearly ZERO reduction in quality. The link above pretty much sums this up by saying that while it is possible, you cannot call it true DX10 because some feature will be missing while others will be present that were not before. Before you spout off about "it doesn't even have bits of DX10" again make sure you have read up. A simple google search will bring up dozens of articles talking about how DX10 features are available to be used on the current consoles which will allow a very very close experience to a true DX10 game.

[jackdoe]

cuguy, Crytek said it could be ported, but not with zero reduction in quality because that is impossible. They said that they would have to scale it back to a shadow of its former self. And just because your graphics card supports DX10 or DX9 doesn't mean it can run Crysis. Running Crysis requires so much more than that. Dual SLI, Dual to Quad Core processors, four gigs worth of ram, etc. Oh, and reading your 1up article is pretty funny. They quoted N4G as a source. Jeez. Journalism these days.

[CNIVEK]

"And just because your graphics card supports DX10 or DX9 doesn't mean it can run Crysis. Running Crysis requires so much more than that. Dual SLI, Dual to Quad Core processors, four gigs worth of ram, etc"

That is a bit overblown, but still fairly accurate; if you want to play Crysis in all it's glory, you're gonna be out about $1500 minimum. And, that is PRECISELY why EA will likely demand AT LEAST a 360 port ; the game won't sell as much on PC as it could on consoles, because of the necessary investment.

[jackdoe]

Very possible, but it will be downgraded, much similar to how FarCry was downgraded to the Xbox.

[The-Only-Truth]

"...an electronic store in Austria..."

Enough said.

Case close !

[BWS1982]

it's possible to run a "version" of the game on the 360 and ps3 but not because this store's 2008 slate has it, this seems like it was likely to happen simply because of the trend Far Cry set on consoles. It'd be scaled back yes, but it's amazing what tinkering with hardware to milk it can accomplish, as Alan Wake on PC/360 should show (hopefully). Then again this could all be a bunch of conjecture...

[MaximusPrime]

another fake news.
its like saying rereleasing Alex Kidd for Xbox 360.

on another hand, i can see it being released on two consoles in the future. PS3 will probably be a little better.

[name]

On the Crytek website it has a job opening for people with "PS3 development experience". Just saying.

[devilhunterx]

whats going on? First MGS4 now Crysis? Signs of desperations, if you are going to quote a ONLINE STORE LISTING.

[wil4hire]

LOL

Have you xbots seen Crysis?

Mark my words, and save this thread. If Crysis comes to the 360 and looks exactly like its PC counterpart.. I'll buy a second 360 for someone here. (rrod backup)

[Nameless]

Why are you acting like the Sony Droids do not get excited when it comes to good rumors for the PS3 hunter ? Oh wait hypocrite

[Funky Town_TX]

is so special about this game. GFX? Take that away and what do you have? Nothing new.

[iNcRiMiNaTi]

good graphics and nothing else

[CNIVEK]

Since Crysis was a Games for Windows game, it's already coded to work with the 360 controller (though with a few minor issues). All they have to do is modify it to run at a steady 30-60 fps, look as good as PC on medium settings (which still looks awesome on my PC), and it would actually be better than the average PC experience.

[ambientFLIER]

What is the big deal about DX10? Crysis runs and looks 99% as good on DX9.

[SilverKiller]

XBox 360 can have a low version of Crysis, maybe PS3 also is going to have a port version who knows :P

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

After all the overly hyped (BS) PC requirements that they tried to use to push high end PCs sales failed. Crysis was never ment to actualy need that high of PC requirements, it was a ploy to sell more expensive PCs and Windows Vista. You guys do know that Crysis never needed all that memory, new high end CPUs, GPUs and Direct X 10 don't you?

Bet $100 that this game ends up a 360 exclusive, after all it's the only damn system that actualy sells games other than the Wii. PS3rd don't sell games, just look at UT3, Uncharted and all the other PS3 piss poor game sales.

[haloblows]

This is article about crysis coming to the 360, not an article about ps3 vs xbox 360. So STFU and play halo 2.5 loser, the disgrace to next gen games.

But anyways that would be awesome to be able to play this game on a console

[blucas]

This is one game you can keep. Im surprised its not coming out on ps3 all the crap games seem to be making it on that platform.
yeah i bought it. Looked good but was far to easy, give me halo any day...

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Are you saying that Crysis is easier than Halo???

Seriously?

Halo was a frickin CAKEWALK compared to Crysis, dude! There's no way you can be serious.

Is he serious?

Also...I'm running it on full with an 8800 GT OC and 2.5 gigs of RAM.

SUCKIT!

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

There's just no CHANCE the 360 could run that game.

I think the CELL could pull it off without a hitch though...

[THAMMER1]

The CELL has 1 core and five processors 7 in all. It is not very clear how much raw game memory can be spread out over 1 core for a game as complex as CRYSIS.

The 360 has 3 cores which makes up 6 processors. For PC you need a minim of 2 cores w/3 to 4 processors to run Crysis bare bones.

So with full high end PC specs there is no way Crysis could run an any console. If the port is stripped down a bit they can still churn out a good game. Just Reference Far Cry PC with Far Cry original XBOX. Both were great games. Hope you did not miss out. I did not because of my original XBOX.