http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/8/14/3241542/crysis-3-will-punish-your-pc-but-only-if-you-want-to

You can quote this everytime someone doubts that Crysis 2 aimed at the console market
"What we did in Crysis 2 ... was a massive amount of optimization because we were aiming at the consoles as target platform"

It seems their concept of optimization also dumbs down the end product in the process, even if they deny it...