Crysis Remastered announced for Switch, PC, PS4 and Xbox One EDIT: It will be using new updated engine [UPDATE] Add Digital Foundry Video Analysis

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HollyGamer said:

Pemalite said:

In the meantime I will give criticism where criticism is due. :P

In saying that, the next-gen machines should mean that games should be able to be developed with higher degrees of simulation now that specs-wise they aren't as limited.

Well as you know Crysis 2 and 3 are not as good as Crysis 1 in terms of engine because they were lowering the targeted spes and platform. This because Crysis one was not selling a lot. It's a financial crisis (pun is not intended) , so they need mainstream money. I just hope they can try self founding route so it cannot held by mainstream spec and can target enthusiast  like what Star Citizen have done to the comunity.   

Crysis 1 sold over 3 million copies with the expansion selling over a million copies. (And let's be honest, still sells even today, yay Steam!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_games

And that beats out the VGChartz numbers of Crysis 2 which sold a combined total of 2.7~ million copies if VGChartz numbers are to be believed across TWO platforms. (Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.)
https://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/games.php?name=Crysis

Wikipedia says Crysis 2 sold about 3~ million copies across all platforms (PC included) which is less than the first game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis_2

So that "Mainstream money" didn't eventuate, once Crytek gave the flick to PC gamers and started to focus on consoles is when they started to decline as a company... Because before that PC gamers used to support Crytek extensively even during the FarCry era.

curl-6 said:

Thanks for the insight. I always love learning about the technical side of things. 

Could the AI, physics, and amount of alpha vegetation be a bottleneck on Switch, or should its newer architecture compensate for that? Those seem to be where the system often struggles in very demanding ports, like Witcher 3 or Doom 2016.

I would think the Switch will be fine, we need to remember it's a 2007 game being ported to a newer and more efficient game engine and remastered... It's not a 2020 game being ported downwards to Switch.