generation differences aren't that big y'know :p look at hitman blood money on the ps2 and then gears of war 1 on the xbox 360. There's a difference, but it's easily comparable to something like gears of war to crysis. That's what i call a generation gap. it's not designed to be 'zomg consoles svck' it's designed to be 'zomg, pc tech is 6 years newer'.
Anyways, ya, both version should kick ass, but the PC version has a lot more to prove than the console version, as it's following up the best looking game of all time (something that is out of reach of consoles already - i'm not talking about medium, i'm talking about very high 1920x1080 - the real crysis experience, no amount of optimization will get that experience on consoles, which is why the ce3 demo of the first level ran at low tex/medium/high shaders with an artificially low draw distance at around 20fps a while back)! So I guess i'm being a bit harsher on the PC version, and as such stating the minimum gap between versions it needs to attain to be a sequel to crysis

Also, of course i'm looking at very high bloodyghost! If i wasn't then i could say 'no there won't be a big gap' because i'm playing on medium o.O, i want to see crytek push the PC platform instead of stagnating it. I want them to do that because they'll have finally nailed a cross platform engine that does justice to ALL platforms, not just 2.
Additionally, with regards to 1up over consoles, if it's not large, they may as well have used the unreal engine. Crytek will have failed at graphics in such a case. Which has never happened, so i have trust that they will ^^
This isn't 'being an elitist' or some crap like that, because the equivalent of what you're saying is that 'zomg the 360 version won't be better than the wii version by much' for a game spanning those two platforms (in fact, the difference from 360>average PC's is larger, but you get the idea). Instead of acting like i'm being unreasonable and trying to slate consoles (as you should have noticed that i own all 'real' platforms [i.e. not wii]), see it from the point of view of HOW much more powerful PC hardware is. It's not twice as much, it's around 7-8 TIMES MORE [graphically] POWERFUL for £100 gpu's. 7-8 TIMES! My card is around 10 times more powerful. the average PC is at least 6 times more powerful.
FINAL THOUGHT for you though bloody

Q: Why is the PC version of CE3 demos marked as 'next gen ready'?
A: http://www.ripten.com/2010/11/25/crytek-pc-is-a-generation-ahead-of-consoles-sam-n/