Crytek predicts death of consoles
Cevat Yerli believes next-gen will see the death home consoles
Crysis developer Crytek has predicted the death of consoles following the arrival of next-generation platforms.
CEO Cevat Yerli stressed that the industry and market is changing, resulting in gamers wanting more easily-accessible and short gaming experiences. He predicted that smartphones and tablets, which have already seen phenomenal growth, as well as browser-based games will pile "massive pressure" on next-gen consoles.
"The console will displace the PC, you hear it again and again. On the contrary: I suspect that the next-generation of home consoles will be the last one. Of course there are still hardcore gamers who sit for an hour to install and then play for eight hours. But these consumers are becoming the minority. Today’s gamers buy a game for 99 cents, download it and play it for 15 to 20 minutes per day over a period of two months – and then they move on."
Yerli said Crytek has no current plans for the PlayStation Vita and Nintendo's next-gen console, the Wii U:
"For the Wii U, there will be games that run on the CryEngine, but from licensees. The PlayStation Vita is currently too uncertain for us as a platform. Technically, I find the Vita very appealing, and have fun with it – no question. From a business perspective it is a bit too late."
There's been an increased amount of speculation regarding Sony announcing a purchase of cloud gaming company Gaikai. Yerli, however, believes that although the firms who have offered streaming games services should be commended, the service is not at a stage where it can meet the demands of the hardcore PC gamer market, nor can current Internet technology become fully compatible with the service:
"Hardcore gamers don’t want [streamed games], but rather the hardware that they like – namely hardcore PC and consoles. They want no compression artefacts, latency and the like. If one is streaming a game like Crysis, it does not look good. It’s like watching Avatar in low-res on YouTube.”
Crytek's Crysis 3 releases during the spring of 2013, while the company is also working on THQ's Homefront 2.
Source: Golem
Alternate Source: VG247
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traditional video games? hardly. the exponential growth in table/smartphone gaming is largely due to tapping into a demographic that historically rarely/never played video games at all. more precisely, it is currently something that is trendy and fashionable to do. and whereas video games as a whole have made tremendous strides as the medium has evolved over past decades, i don't see tablet gaming as a next step in that evolution. publishers will begin to cater to this crowd more and more frequently until the fad passes and the money dries up. but something you play for 2 months for a buck and then move on from cannot replace something it will never measure up to as an immersive experience. the evolution of depth and complexity in gaming is something that has spurred innovation for decades and i will not accept that that can be replaced by angry birds.
WOW WOW WOW calm down here after i read this i was done reading today's CASUAL GAMER key word does that. the thing is there are a lot more casual gamers then there are hardcore wires in the vain wiith a jack in plug all matrixs style on the back of the head.
and i want from games is solid game play we lost that too the casual gamer everything is far to easy and its just so wrong and if all hard core gamers just stood up and quit....the sad thing is companies would lose almost next to nothing
so the truth is if consoles do lose out and all we start geting is these crappy 99 cent games that say give me a random around of money that ends up being way more then you planed to spend on it is due to the CASUAL GAMER not the hardcore gamer we are not at fault here they are to blame
Therefore, Crytek's argument is truly delusional and baseless in terms of historical facts. In terms of new mobile entertainment, I believe mobile casual gamings (Angry Bird?) will never EVER replace hardcore console-based gamings (Metal Gear or CoD)...Just like Kinect and Move can't replace traditional controllers for some games!!!
Crytek's argument undermines its intelligence of entertainment history, thereby showing not only a weakeness in conceptual thinking ability but also absurdity in logical/analytical skills of Crytek's developers...Go back to school and finish HSC, Crytek developers!!!!!
Every technology has its own place regardless of consumer base. Nothing has a complete upper edge nowadays...
Actually, most consoles are mediocre to pitiful single purpose computers with nice video cards. So most wouldn't even be good as PCs. "The console will displace the PC, you hear it again and again." The PC is already in most people's homes, its a more powerful platform than the console in most respects, and it is a lot easier to develop for. I hear the exact opposite of this quote again and again. I agree with some points that they are making, they've just reached illogical conclusions.
But hey, what do you expect from a company who's driving goal is to sell game engines for theoretical hardware in a constant arms race to no where? All but kill off the PC market, then move over to consoles and do the same. Brilliant.
I somewhat agree, consoles have been going down since the Gamecube era, but they'll just learn from their mistakes and move on. As long as there are gamers there will be consoles.
Measly Facebook, i Pod, and Flash games won't overrun consoles.