Most game developers already find it a pain to come up with a game on a single platform, let alone a multi-platform release that will surely take ages for a simultaneous release. After all, optimizing code for one platform to another is a whole new ball game, and more often than not we find games running on platforms that we totally don’t expect – take Doom on the iPod and Viva Pinata on the Xbox 360 for example. To add to all this craziness, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has declared, “Theoretically, anything could run anywhere.” Why did he say that? Let’s dissect his statement after the jump.

That was apparently his response to UK’s PC Gamer magazine, asserting that his company’s eye-dropping shooter title on the computer (Crysis) will one day make its way to high-end consoles. While we know that the Nintendo Wii lacks the graphical firepower to handle the game, that leaves us with just two players in this game – the PS3 and the Xbox 360. All that is required now is a whole lot of optimization. One must tread carefully, however, as technical feasibility alone is not enough to guarantee anything at press time, and with no news of a confirmed console port, this is as good as a rumor.

Cevat Yerli adds, “What you would not do is make Crysis on PS3, 360 and PC for a single shipping date, because we would lose the quality focus. So I say, ‘First PC version, then we’ll see what happens.’” Should Crysis head out to the console, would you hold off your PC purchase assuming you have a gaming rig that is capable of handling this beauty of a game?

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