{"id":12736,"date":"2011-07-05T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"did-you-know-crytek-was-almost-a-first-party-dev-for-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12736-did-you-know-crytek-was-almost-a-first-party-dev-for-microsoft","title":{"rendered":"Did you know, Crytek was almost a first-party dev for Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hold onto your quadrillion-voxelbyte flux capacitors, PC fans &ndash; would you believe that Crytek was this close to signing up as one of Microsoft&rsquo;s first-party Xbox devs? Turns out Crysis was just a little too much like one of Microsoft&rsquo;s other &ldquo;military future shooters&rdquo; (three guesses, and the first two don&rsquo;t count) at the time, though.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think it&#8217;s about quality,&#8221; Xbox guy Phil Spencer tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxm.co.uk\/30963\/news\/crytek-has-fallen-in-love-with-kinect-microsoft-games-studio-boss\/\" target=\"_blank\">OXM<\/a>, on the subject of the console&rsquo;s hardcore game catalogue. &#8220;And the relationship with Crytek is a perfect example. The first time we met with [Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli] and the team was around seven or eight years ago, and we started talking about what it&#8217;d mean for them to become first party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it was a process of what do you guys want to do, what&#8217;s unique for us, and they were just going to do Crysis, and they&#8217;d just come out of Far Cry, and we said we&#8217;ve probably got enough military future shooters, so go do that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward a few years, and not only did Crysis 2 end up on Xbox, but the developer is also working on Kinect exclusive, Ryse, and rumour has it that the original Crysis should be seeing a console launch sometime in the future too. The times, they are a-changin&rsquo;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crysis that wasn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}