Hot on the heels of their E3 announcement of Kingdoms (working title), which is an Xbox 360 exclusive, Crytek head honcho Cervat Yerli has told CVG that his studio wouldn’t be adverse to showing Sony some exclusive love.
After pointing out that, as an independent studio, Crytek are free to do whatever they want and announce whenever they want he goes on to say:
Sony is a partner that we would definitely love to work with. A [PS3 exclusive] is something we considered before – we talked about it a lot, but for reasons of portfolio or timing in the past it didn’t work out. But that doesn’t mean in the future it wouldn’t work.
Sony is a great company, so is Nintendo and so is Microsoft. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses, and luckily our strengths are almost always complementary to their weaknesses.
Mr Yerli also says that his studio have been in long discussions with Microsoft, spanning five or six years, and that when Kingdoms came up it seemed like a “natural fit” with Microsoft’s console. Hopefully the team is big enough to handle the work they’re doing on Kingdoms and still have plenty of manpower to get Crysis 2 out in a timely fashion because that game is really looking good.
So in an age where many developers are claiming that they have to go multi-platform to ensure a healthy return is it risky for Crytek to put all their beatifully-rendered eggs in one basket or can either of the HD consoles still sell enough units to warrant third-party exclusives? It’s an interesting question and one which Cervat Yerli will soon be able to answer.
newsky87
*Kicks Jack Tretton up the arse*
Get over there you overgrown child actor and sign an effing contract with them! Use blood if necessary!
colossalblue
oh no, I will not have anyone insulting uncle Jack on my watch ;)
newsky87
Too much hair gel says what? :P
KeRaSh
Nicely put. *claps his hands*
Lord_Gremlin
I support this move.
Raggles
Oh how I wish they would do Timesplitters 4 as an exclusive, actually just doing it would be good enough. And with the sort of mapmaking they have for the cry engine it would be immense
PoorPaddy89
Didn’t the timesplitters developers get credit crunched? or am i talkin balls?
Raggles
They got taken into crytek and became crytek uk, roughly the same team and they own all their ips
thedriffter50
@PoorPaddy89 – The TimeSplitter devs weren’t bankrupt after Haze…You heard than right the same people who made Haze made TimeSplitters lol
Juelz345
I’m not bothered either way as i have both consoles, and in most cases i get multiplat games on 360 anyhow, but I would like things to get to the point that 3rd party exclusives were a thing of the past.
But i guess with Sony having stronger first party exclusives (IMO), MS need to secure what ever they can.
xdarkmagician
if they get rid of exclusives then they might as well get rid of a console as well, as there’s no point in having 2 near identical consoles if every game can be played on either. MS, Sony, Nintendo… will never stop wanting or needing exclusive titles, and wherever there’s demand a smart person can profit. I think a Crytek Sony exclusive is a great idea, and I’m sure Sony will make it worth their while.
ClubberLang
Nah. Sony don’t need ’em. Enough exclusivity without Crytek jumping on the band wagon. If they wanna do a PS3 game that’s fine, but Ps3 don’t beg :-)
funkyellowmonkey(ps3 id)
well let’s see how crysis 2 fares first then decide if we want them to make exclusives? lol
JesseDeya
A PS3 exclusive would be simply awesome. I totally trust Crytek have the smarts to properly utilise the Cell and it’s SPEs properly and I’ve little doubt whatever they produced would be a AAA title worthy of being a PS3 exclusive.
Add their obvious support for 3D and potentially Move support and I suddenly want it NOW, even if it’s a unicorn training simulator.