Crysis 2 delayed until early 2011, dated GPUs rejoice

GOOD! That'll give me some extra time to finish off the other 50 games I've bought through Steam sales over the last year. ;-)

Not to mention the next round of GPUs may appear around this time, and the current round will be cheaper. Although waiting longer sucks, there are benefits!

Well, here's to hoping they put that extra time to good use and polish the heck out of it. I really, really want Crysis 2 to do well so that it can squash all of the haters. Crytek, keep up the good work, and don't forget your loyal PC fans.

I suppose its a good thing in a way, as it does give people extra time to spruce up thier pc's. and the game will no doubt be better of course.

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

I upgraded my PC with better stuff a few days back in prep for this!

Not a joke, i'm going to have a little cry when I go to bed tonight ;(

Please Crytek make this the best game i have ever played

Heheh , I skipped Radeons 5000 series and will jump to 6000 , good for crysis 2 , new cod , doom 4 , rage , and just maybe Duke Nukem Forever

Hopefully by then we'll have some PC trailers. Every trailer out is on an xbox or ps3 and looks piss poor compared to the first game.

A little sad by this news since I was looking forward to playing it this holiday season, but as most of you point out this gives everyone more time with other games and to hold off on a GPU upgrade.

My understanding is they've been intentionally demoing the game on the worst platform graphically speaking /shurg. My biggest concern however is the game play changes and that it might be to corridor like since they are in NYC rather then open world.

Good news to me I should have my new system and hopefully 2 460GTXs in SLI by then.

Everything you've read is probably overblown due to fanboyism. Back in 2007, it was crazy demanding, but in 2010, you don't have to break the bank to play it. What are your system specs, including make and model (assuming you didn't build your PC)? Chances are, you can just add a GTX 460 and be on easy street for the next few years, which includes being able to play Crysis 2.

I am sooooo disappointed, I mean I spec my machines with the highest standards (within budget) to run crysis at the lowest quality and then they go and do this. Now I'll have to upgrade again :-(, when it comes out just to barely be able to run it, Again.

It's just a fact they chose new york to get it to run on consoles. The game has buildings blocking things and you going in corridors so it doesn't have to render as much. If people think they could have it "Surpass the first game" in a jungle environment they are very mistaken.

called it, everything is getting pushed to next year...

now i think i will wait on a new graphics card for sure, or maybe a nice xmas gift at least

hello ...

OK, with the lots of games i have on console & PC, it will indeed give me some time to finish them & also to build a new machine, sure hope they do a very good PC version.

cheers!

4870 > gtx 260

That is a complete and utter lie. The gtx 260 and hd 4870 go back and forth between better performance in different games. And as we all know Cryengine favors nvidia GPUs. So your comment is complete rubbish.

With regards the HD 4870 v GTX 260 debate...I think you'll find that there are only a couple of sites that retest each card using the newer drivers. TPU's test suite has 90 benchmarks of which 46 favour the 4870 , and 44 favour the GTX. Neither is what you would call a runaway winner.
Point to note that the HD 4870 in the test evaluation is a 512Mb, not a 1Gb model, although there's not much difference between the two.
The charts over at Tom's tell the same story