Crytek Discussed Going First-Party with Microsoft

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Microsoft Studio's corporate vice-president, Phil Spencer, has revealed to OXM that the platform holder almost bought up Crysis developer, Crytek, around seven years ago. But the company decided against an acquisition as the software line-up between the two was too similar.

As Spencer explained, "I do think it's about quality. And the relationship with Crytek is a perfect example. The first time we met with [Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli] and the team was around seven or eight years ago, and we started talking about what it'd mean for them to become first party.

"And it was a process of what do you guys want to do, what's unique for us, and they were just going to do Crysis, and they'd just come out of Far Cry, and we said we've probably got enough military future shooters, so go do that."

Spencer is, of course, referring to the similarities that Crytek's super shooter shares with their own IP, Halo.

Acquisition may have fallen through seven years ago but now Crytek is developing the Kinect-exclusive Ryse, which made its debut at E3. It would seem then, that the relationship between the two is stronger than ever. "Then they came up with this idea around Ryse," Spencer concluded, "and now they've really fallen in love with Kinect, and it's a perfect marriage for us."

Crytek going Xbox-exclusive would have meant a world without the gorgeous PC debut of the original Crysis, and all those "Can it run Crysis?" questions along with it. But as it turns out, Crysis may well see the light of day on PS3 and 360.

So they are telling me that microsoft fucked up first party with both CRYTEK AND BIOWARE? WTF MICROSOFT YOU GUYS COULD'VE DOMINATED YOU ASSHOLES

Um, 7 years ago. It doesn't seem unlikely that Crytek could still go first party with Microsoft, they're developing Ryse after all. It even said their relationship is stronger than ever. I'm thinking Microsoft might get Crytek now that they lost Bungie. They did say that was the reason Crytek didn't go first party in the first place.

BlackStigma wrote:

Um, 7 years ago. It doesn't seem unlikely that Crytek could still go first party with Microsoft, they're developing Ryse after all. It even said their relationship is stronger than ever. I'm thinking Microsoft might get Crytek now that they lost Bungie. They did say that was the reason Crytek didn't go first party in the first place.

Man they better. They fucking better. They need more 1st pary developers especially with the next gen and crytek is like the one of the most praised developers

ooohhh Halo in Cryengine... that would be something special.

I also heard the rumour of Crysis 1 will come to Xbox. Saw it on Kotaku for some day ago.

Blixtstorm wrote:

ooohhh Halo in Cryengine... that would be something special.

I also heard the rumour of Crysis 1 will come to Xbox. Saw it on Kotaku for some day ago.

It's coming to 360 AND PS3 according to the rumor.

TRF wrote:

Blixtstorm wrote:

ooohhh Halo in Cryengine... that would be something special.

I also heard the rumour of Crysis 1 will come to Xbox. Saw it on Kotaku for some day ago.

It's coming to 360 AND PS3 according to the rumor.

http://kotaku.com/5817371/rumor-crysis-bound-for-xbox-360

Read it and weep Not really rejoice, because now you console people can enjoy the excellent story in this game... I really hope they add Warhead aswell, that game was pwn.

Blixtstorm wrote:

TRF wrote:

Blixtstorm wrote:

ooohhh Halo in Cryengine... that would be something special.

I also heard the rumour of Crysis 1 will come to Xbox. Saw it on Kotaku for some day ago.

It's coming to 360 AND PS3 according to the rumor.

http://kotaku.com/5817371/rumor-crysis-bound-for-xbox-360

Read it and weep Not really rejoice, because now you console people can enjoy the excellent story in this game... I really hope they add Warhead aswell, that game was pwn.

http://www.lensoftruth.com/the-original-crysis-rated-for-ps3-xbox-360/
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/118/1180288p1.html

Read it and weep.

TRF wrote:

Blixtstorm wrote:

TRF wrote:

Blixtstorm wrote:

ooohhh Halo in Cryengine... that would be something special.

I also heard the rumour of Crysis 1 will come to Xbox. Saw it on Kotaku for some day ago.

It's coming to 360 AND PS3 according to the rumor.

http://kotaku.com/5817371/rumor-crysis-bound-for-xbox-360

Read it and weep Not really rejoice, because now you console people can enjoy the excellent story in this game... I really hope they add Warhead aswell, that game was pwn.

http://www.lensoftruth.com/the-original-crysis-rated-for-ps3-xbox-360/
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/118/1180288p1.html

Read it and weep.

I have already played the games, now you have the chance to change the world.

Post the article link when you make a damn news thread.

It doesn't seem likely that MS would buy them. I think MS and Crytek will just have a relationship similar to Epic Games where they make some MS exclusives.

If MS has one disadvantage it would probably be in 1st party studios. I mean they only have Turn 10, Lionhead, 343i, and Rare (and they're practically stuck making Kinect casualware). So things aren't looking too hot for them next gen.

I want Microsoft to buy them just to see the huge PC fanboy outrage at Crytek's betrayal of the master race. Because we all know that Microsoft will only make 360 exclusives.
But anyway, this partnership sounds great. Crytek are arguably the master of technology in the gaming industry so a lot of their work could influence the next XBOX.

IDK if its gonna be all good or all bad....or in between.

It would make things quite interesting if they did.

Alanski wrote:

It doesn't seem likely that MS would buy them. I think MS and Crytek will just have a relationship similar to Epic Games where they make some MS exclusives.

If MS has one disadvantage it would probably be in 1st party studios. I mean they only have Turn 10, Lionhead, 343i, and Rare (and they're practically stuck making Kinect casualware). So things aren't looking too hot for them next gen.

Agreed. Microsoft has a shit 1st party line-up. And lionhead is most likely to focus mainly on kinect aswell.

ghost23 wrote:

I want Microsoft to buy them just to see the huge PC fanboy outrage at Crytek's betrayal of the master race. Because we all know that Microsoft will only make 360 exclusives.
But anyway, this partnership sounds great. Crytek are arguably the master of technology in the gaming industry so a lot of their work could influence the next XBOX.

Partnership? What?

Sonji wrote:

ghost23 wrote:

I want Microsoft to buy them just to see the huge PC fanboy outrage at Crytek's betrayal of the master race. Because we all know that Microsoft will only make 360 exclusives.
But anyway, this partnership sounds great. Crytek are arguably the master of technology in the gaming industry so a lot of their work could influence the next XBOX.

Partnership? What?

Partnership as in making Xbox exclusives? What don't you get about it?

Alanski wrote:

Sonji wrote:

ghost23 wrote:

I want Microsoft to buy them just to see the huge PC fanboy outrage at Crytek's betrayal of the master race. Because we all know that Microsoft will only make 360 exclusives.
But anyway, this partnership sounds great. Crytek are arguably the master of technology in the gaming industry so a lot of their work could influence the next XBOX.

Partnership? What?

Partnership as in making Xbox exclusives? What don't you get about it?

I thought he was implying that MS bought them

Sonji wrote:

Alanski wrote:

Sonji wrote:

ghost23 wrote:

I want Microsoft to buy them just to see the huge PC fanboy outrage at Crytek's betrayal of the master race. Because we all know that Microsoft will only make 360 exclusives.
But anyway, this partnership sounds great. Crytek are arguably the master of technology in the gaming industry so a lot of their work could influence the next XBOX.

Partnership? What?

Partnership as in making Xbox exclusives? What don't you get about it?

I thought he was implying that MS bought them

Well that logically wouldn't make any sense.. If Crytek became a 1st party developer for MS then MS can't have a partnership with itself. There isn't a "partnership" between a pimp and a ho; The pimp owns that ho.

I don't think they would "dominate". Sony has 18 1st party developers compared to Microsoft's 11 first party developers. If Crytek would've been bought they would still have a lower number compared to Sony, and probably Crysis franchise would've never existed.

Sonji wrote:

Alanski wrote:

Sonji wrote:

ghost23 wrote:

I want Microsoft to buy them just to see the huge PC fanboy outrage at Crytek's betrayal of the master race. Because we all know that Microsoft will only make 360 exclusives.
But anyway, this partnership sounds great. Crytek are arguably the master of technology in the gaming industry so a lot of their work could influence the next XBOX.

Partnership? What?

Partnership as in making Xbox exclusives? What don't you get about it?

I thought he was implying that MS bought them

I meant that it would be funny if Crytek went first party and all the PC fanboys went nuts.
But the current partnership that Microsoft and Crytek are in, could very likely shape the next generation XBOX.

yonny616 wrote:

I don't think they would "dominate". Sony has 18 1st party developers compared to Microsoft's 11 first party developers. If Crytek would've been bought they would still have a lower number compared to Sony, and probably Crysis franchise would've never existed.

You do realize its fucking crytek right? That fact already equals over 7 1st party developers.

yonny616 wrote:

I don't think they would "dominate". Sony has 18 1st party developers compared to Microsoft's 11 first party developers. If Crytek would've been bought they would still have a lower number compared to Sony, and probably Crysis franchise would've never existed.

It's not about numbers, but the quality of the product released. Crytek are a quality studio who have made quality franchises.

Crytek aren't THAT great....:/

Toxicmaniac wrote:

yonny616 wrote:

I don't think they would "dominate". Sony has 18 1st party developers compared to Microsoft's 11 first party developers. If Crytek would've been bought they would still have a lower number compared to Sony, and probably Crysis franchise would've never existed.

You do realize its fucking crytek right? That fact already equals over 7 1st party developers.

Yes I do realize that it's Crytek, but Crytek isn't that great. The Cryengine 3 was so overrated and turned out to be a disappointing, DICE's Frostbite 2 engine is mile ahead of any Cryengine. Also what do you mean? by

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That fact already equals over 7 1st party developers.

ghost23 wrote:

yonny616 wrote:

I don't think they would "dominate". Sony has 18 1st party developers compared to Microsoft's 11 first party developers. If Crytek would've been bought they would still have a lower number compared to Sony, and probably Crysis franchise would've never existed.

It's not about numbers, but the quality of the product released. Crytek are a quality studio who have made quality franchises.

Yes number do matter because the more developers you have the more quality games you can dish out. Crysis 2 was as much of a disappointment as Killzone 3 in my opinion, and the fact that reviewers called it the "King of Graphics on consoles" so early this year before Uncharted 3 or Battlefield 3 is bull shit.

I don't have Crysis 2 but it couldn't have been anymore disappointing than Killzone 3.