One of the main reasons I turned into a console gamer recently: I have absolutely no idea what you two are talking about. =P

Yea PC games are getting pretty intense. My roommate got a brand new XPS laptop with 2 GB of RAM and a 256MB Radeon. A month later he bought "Star War's Empire At War" and he couldn't even run it at 75% resolution without it being choppy, Lol. PC tech is evolving way to fast these days

Crysis is designed to be first and foremost an engine for licensing purposes. This explains why the engine was available for sale well before the game is even ready.

Additionally, Crysis (according to their website and in the unofficial crysis-online page) have stated the game will be designed to scale nicely depending on the system. They have targeted computers that are two years old (from time of release) to 1.5 years in the future. Not 10 years! This approach is very common in PC games, including Doom3 (when it came out, its "Ultra" setting was designed for hardware that wasn't available at its release, but somehow nobody complained then, and you look at the game now!).

As for Crytek disabling features that your computer couldn't handle - what's wrong with that? If anything, that means you won't be able to enable settings that will cause your computer to crash, and that's a good thing! 

There is no reason why Crysis cannot be ported to any console; it's the amount of detail and/or resolution that may be dumbed down. Just look at Far Cry on Wii - crap at best, but yes, technically, it can be done. Given how the PS3 and 360 are vastly more powerful than a Wii, I don't see why Crysis cannot be ported (albeit with numerous features dumbed down or turned off completely). Crytek have retracted on their word that the game cannot be ported to consoles. If anything, PC games are the ones best suited for porting, as they are always designed and coded with various hardware in mind to begin with.

Finally, Crysis is designed to be a DirectX10 which downscales to DirectX9. By definition, DirectX10 is available only on Vista, which is a 64-bit system, so you will certainly benefit from having 4GB of RAM; XP is 32-bit only so 2GB is optimal, but in any case, Crysis will run in XP, just without all the nifty shader effects and other graphic niceties that DirectX10 brings to the table.

Yeah, I may have exaggerated on the 10 years, lol. It won't take a beast to run, but it WILL take a beast (from the future) to run on full

I just find it funny how it alone seems to be selling Vista, $600 graphics cards, and Quad core processors. This month's Maximum PC has a huge story about "If you only have $650, and thus can only upgrade either your processor to a quad core or your graphics card to one that is DX10 capable... which will help you out more in gaming?"

The entire article essentaily talked about Crysis and how you really need both to play it, also mentioning that 99% of apps won't use either of them to their full potential... except Crysis. 

Previously Maximum PC reviewed Vista and they said something along the lines of "Vista is not worth the money, stick with XP for now... unless you want to play Crysis and need DX10"

don`t like that "guy throwing" thing, realistic and cruel.

Sorry your mother, but Vista is both 32 and 64 bit. As well, the game has to be created to run as a 64 bit application to make use of the ram. n00b stix. :D

 Also, XP is both 32 and 64 as well.  Wowz.

"the best pc game in years???" jajaja c´mon. graphics is different that gameplay, for graphics go and buy a movie, maybe can be the best looking game, but only for some months, the best looking game will be alan wake next, and next some game be the best looking game, and then other, and other next...... the technology dont walk, run very fast, and the best graphics will be in the PC and never in the ps3. the sad reality for sony fanboys that think that the ps3 is a supercomputer portable jajajjaja XD

You are right, rendo! I should clarify:

DirectX10 is available ONLY for Vista. n00b stix. :D

DirectX10 will NOT run on XP even if you have the 64-bit version. Wowz. 

I should clarify.  It will only be a matter of months before DX10 is hacked to work on XP, and what's the point in even discussing it?  You're WRONG about the 4gigs.  Oh, and a DX10 card WILL work on XP, you just won't get all the nifty DX10 features.  N00b Stix^2^32-1 (Since you can't do basic bath on ram maximums ;) )