If you look at the resources crysis 1 uses in dense jungle areas and the large open areas (easily goes upto 2 Gb's of ram in the more spectacular scenes) and even a modern pc barely being able to handle it at a 1080 p resolution with AA off , it's clear that such scenes can not be rendered at a decent framerate on consoles which only have 512 MB (ram vram combined) of memory.
Assuming the pc and console verisons will have identical levels (in design) , I'm very worried that the pc version will suffer from the limited level size/design options.
I also really hope that crytek will remember it's roots and offer the same modding tools and abilities that kept the first game alive for so long.
Please crytek, don't make the same mistake as infinity ward , in not adding support for dedicated servers.
I'm still looking forward to the pc footage of crysis 2 which will hopefully blow me away, but seeing recent trends with other developers who stopped embracing their (former?) passion of game design and started embracing only their wallets and stock holders and dumbed down pc games, made quick console ports out of them and butchered the gameplay in favor of accesability and achievements.
I urge crytek to remember what it is that has made them popular and looked up to by other devs and gamers alike, being that it's obvious they put alot of love into cryengine 2 and crysis, to support their community , and not being afraid to go against the grain (heavy system requirements/milestone in graphics/fresh ideas with the nanosuit)
And to you console fans (I own both an xbox360 and a ps3 i'm not clueless about them) , remember that it's the pc and its superior hardware (for its generation) that has brought along pretty much all of the innovation and ideas and concepts that we can all enjoy on consoles and pc's alike today.
Without the pc there would be no online gaming today, there would be no halo without the emergance of fps games on pc, there would be no PSN or xbox live and there would be no hard drives or bluetooth or wifi in the consoles.
, from an older gamer who hopes gaming won't completely turn into marketing and business.