So my opinion to the topic:
Yeah I think I'll buy the next Crysis game cause I love the first and the second game and I now that Crytek care about their customers, even the PC-Gamer or why they made the free DX11 and HighRes Packs?

You want to know the truth about the pack DX11, look this, it is in french but you can easily translate: http://www.hardware.fr/articles/838-1/crysis-2-dx11-performances-tessellation-loupe.html

Just a portion of section:

For Nvidia this collaboration helps to justify the power of the latest GPUs, but also to influence how to use the tessellation, a rendering technique treated more effectively than by the GeForce Radeon AMD. For Crytek, the DirectX 11 update is timely to try to boost sales very disappointing PC Crysis 2. The developer's own admission, somewhat neglecting the PC version was a strategic error ...

If we can assume that a financial aspect was also negotiated by Crytek, EA and Nvidia, neither party will comment on that account. Whether it's a big check, from sports bags full of greenbacks, developers made ??available, marketing support or a mixture of all this, it seems clear that Nvidia had a hand in the portfolio one way or another, probably with demands defined in terms of the use of tessellation which was clearly not part of the initial plans of Crytek. It also stipulates that the party took longer to be implemented.

Yes but the sample fact is that this game is heavy on hardware for good reason now. Metro 2033 runs just as bad maxed out with what looks like less tessellation than Crysis 2.

Crytek have said all along that they developed the game for all platforms simultaneously - the CryEngine 3 is what makes this possible. Therefore the game is not a port, it wasn't developed for consoles and then overhauled for the PC. So though I don't agree in the 'console port' whine that people constantly throw at the game, I think it's plain that the game has been limited to some degree by the decision to go multi-platform.

The most obvious sign of this is the scale of the levels. The huge open worlds of Crysis have gone for the more enclosed arenas of New York. The limited memory of the consoles mean that's as big as they can realistically handle. The only way to get around that would be to develop two separate games, one for consoles and one for PC and that's just not gonna happen. Costs would be immense. Even if the consoles were not catered for the costs to develop huge arenas in a dense environment like New York would be too great. Making a huge environment that is just rocks and trees is easy, making a huge environment that consists of Cars, shops, skyscraqers, monuments, billboards, cafes, sidewalks, parks, apartments, sewers, subways, theatres, stations, rocks & trees is a huge undertaking.

If and when Crysis 3 does appear I'm confident that the eggsbox and ps.003 will have been superseded. It's gonna be at least 3-4 years IMO. Expect PCs with 16GB ram, 3GB GFX cards and 8 core processors as mainstream - probably ;D

It also all depends what you consider a port to be. If you consider it responsible for huge gameplay cuts and changes, simplification and player inhibition, especially compared to the the originals, then yes it's a port in that way too.

Actually, developing for the PC/DX11 should being down costs and development time and since you don't have to pay for console dev kits. The main reason why game developers make crossplatform games is because the consoles have a bigger market. Crytek probably have to sell more console games than PC to make a profit.

I think game developers have seen games like Halo and CoD make so much money, thinking they can sell that many units on the consoles, it's not that simple as it looks.

no , but i will try it out.

my answer to this. yes i am going to buy crysis 3 when its released. the game ended with a cliffhanger. there still more battles in different place. to get the aliens off the planet earth. the war is not over yet.

so again i am waiting for crysis 3. single player mode only. i don't play the multiplayer as much since launch of crysis 2. but i enjoy the story so far of this series. like battlefield bad company series. and medal of honor series. i play these games for the story. i am guess everybody here plays it for multiplayer?

so if there's a good story hey i am there.

and thats all i am going to say about this.