Crytek: PlayStation 4 in Three Years?
Crytek linking itself to next next-gen PlayStation
Crytek, the developer behind Crysis and the original Far Cry, is preparing for the next generation of consoles, claiming that the next PlayStation will be out inside the next four years.
Speaking at GC Asia, the company's CEO, Cevat Yerli, said of the PS4, "Sony knows, but they wouldn't tell us... But our estimate is 2011, or 2012." He added that he expects the neXtbox (or Xbox Pure or Xbox 720) to be out a year or so before the next PlayStation.
Sony, which launched the PS3 in late 2006, has said that its console will have a ten-year lifespan, meaning the company expects to have it on shop shelves until 2016. That doesn't mean, of course, that a new console won't be launched before the PS3 is put out to pasture.
The developer, which licenses its proprietary CryEngine technology to other developers, plans to have the next iteration of its engine out in 2012. Yerli stated, "The future, in our terms, starts next year. Next year we start researching our 2012 engine.”
Discussing the pitfalls of this generation, Yerli said that there is a risk of overly sophisticated graphics hampering animation before the next console generation hits and that different aspects of development must grow together. He pointed to other aspects of development as the real growth areas for this generation, stating, "Games will differentiate more and more in artistic style, physics, and AI, to be different... Huge gains are possible in physics and AI."
Yerli wound up by saying, "The action is simple. We are linking ourselves to the console cycle. Frankly we are linking ourselves to the PS4." Crytek would, of course, be keen to focus on console gaming, having said it won't develop exclusively for the PC again thanks to rampant piracy of Crysis.
He called the console a “driving beacon”, despite the fact that Sony hasn't given Crytek full details. "That's probably the most important information that our company is missing", he said. Could that perhaps be because, even if a 2011 or 2012 release date is correct, Sony doesn't have all that information yet?
Source: Edge Online
Speaking at GC Asia, the company's CEO, Cevat Yerli, said of the PS4, "Sony knows, but they wouldn't tell us... But our estimate is 2011, or 2012." He added that he expects the neXtbox (or Xbox Pure or Xbox 720) to be out a year or so before the next PlayStation.
Sony, which launched the PS3 in late 2006, has said that its console will have a ten-year lifespan, meaning the company expects to have it on shop shelves until 2016. That doesn't mean, of course, that a new console won't be launched before the PS3 is put out to pasture.
The developer, which licenses its proprietary CryEngine technology to other developers, plans to have the next iteration of its engine out in 2012. Yerli stated, "The future, in our terms, starts next year. Next year we start researching our 2012 engine.”
Discussing the pitfalls of this generation, Yerli said that there is a risk of overly sophisticated graphics hampering animation before the next console generation hits and that different aspects of development must grow together. He pointed to other aspects of development as the real growth areas for this generation, stating, "Games will differentiate more and more in artistic style, physics, and AI, to be different... Huge gains are possible in physics and AI."
Yerli wound up by saying, "The action is simple. We are linking ourselves to the console cycle. Frankly we are linking ourselves to the PS4." Crytek would, of course, be keen to focus on console gaming, having said it won't develop exclusively for the PC again thanks to rampant piracy of Crysis.
He called the console a “driving beacon”, despite the fact that Sony hasn't given Crytek full details. "That's probably the most important information that our company is missing", he said. Could that perhaps be because, even if a 2011 or 2012 release date is correct, Sony doesn't have all that information yet?
Source: Edge Online
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deleted 22 Sep 2008 09:29
1/4
could it be that Sony is now approaching devs for launch titles for PS4 now, savemistakes made this gen?
tyrion 22 Sep 2008 17:59
2/4
haritori wrote:
could it be that Sony is now approaching devs for launch titles for PS4 now, savemistakes made this gen?
Sony will have been looking at the alternatives for the PS4 a couple of weeks after the PS3 was finalised. Same with Microsoft and Nintendo with their next consoles.
My bet is that the PS4 will be Cell-based, just more SPEs or more Cells. I think they'll either drop the GPU all together or have a combined GPU/PPU (Pysics Processing Unit) that supports the APIs they have pushed with the PS3 (OpenGL and Ageia).
All of this will make the PS4 100% backwardly compatible with the PS3, but put much more power "under the hood". No learning curve for devs, just a smooth transition to the next gen, no BC issues for gamers, just run your old games straight away.
I do think that the only reasons the PS4 will have an optical drive will be for BC, music and movies. The games will all be distributed over PSN, at least for US, EU and Japan where broadband speeds will be up to the job by release date.
I'm sure someone at Sony has said "not before 2012" on the matter of the PS4 and that seems like a good time frame to me, even if it's just to make sure network speeds are up to snuff.
Nostra-Tyrion has spoken, let the nit-picking begin! :-)
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SuperSaiyan4 23 Sep 2008 12:02
3/4
It will be very interesting to see whether the PS4 does need a GPU or not as it was known with the PS3 the Cell was technically supposed to do the job but they needed GPU at the last minute.
The problem here is that a GPU has serves a purpose given the technology it has to deliver graphics, a CPU only is supposed to process information not dedicted to giving its processing power to visuals hence why GPU's have certain technologies as said already like pipes, shaders etc.
I think it might be very expensive to put in 2 Cell processors but knowing Sony and how awkard they are they will put something in there that causes developers to learn all over again whilst Microsoft slap in an 8core CPU, dedicated GPU that is again 1yr ahead of anything else and perhaps 2gb of ram.
The problem here is that a GPU has serves a purpose given the technology it has to deliver graphics, a CPU only is supposed to process information not dedicted to giving its processing power to visuals hence why GPU's have certain technologies as said already like pipes, shaders etc.
I think it might be very expensive to put in 2 Cell processors but knowing Sony and how awkard they are they will put something in there that causes developers to learn all over again whilst Microsoft slap in an 8core CPU, dedicated GPU that is again 1yr ahead of anything else and perhaps 2gb of ram.
Daz 23 Sep 2008 16:46
4/4
SuperSaiyan4 wrote:
knowing Sony and how awkard they are they will put something in there that causes developers to learn all over again
if they didn't want a challenge maybe they should have become factory workers