Crytek: PC easily a generation ahead of consoles

“As long as the current console generation exists,” claims Yerli, “and as long as we keep pushing the PC as well, the more difficult it will be to really get the benefit of both.”

Of course plenty of other sites are reporting this as a ‘consoles are holding PCs back’ flamebait story, but Yerli is essentially just stating the obvious – console gaming is more popular than ever and it makes sense for developers to focus their development strategy to cater for that market. When PC ports are developed in tandem they generally don’t get the chance to benefit from the increased processing power, which is sad, but it’s simply economics.