Tablets will replace PC gaming, says Crytek CEO

Are you going to replace PC gaming with Tablet? For me physical keyboard and mouse is much better than touch screen and sensors.

 

PC Gaming = Gaming

Tablet Gaming = Playing

How many serious gamers does anyone know that has even considered switching all gaming resources to an iPad, Playbook, Iconia etc?

 

Its a theory of an observation from a figurehead of a company that has developed 3 games(warhead doesn't count imo), take it with a grain of salt.

 

The casual games market is pretty big now. I suppose in terms of pure numbers tablets will eclipse PCs if you factor in the number of casual gamers who might move to the tablet eventually. I still think that true PC games will stay on the PC. Although i don't mind playing say, an RTS on a tablet. Makes selecting units so much easier. :/

 

I'd really like blizzard to come out with a starcraft variant for android / ipad devices. Just a thought.

 

Hard for me to take Cevat seriously anymore after that Crysis 2 crud he just pushed out.

 

So we go from PC gaming to consoles, now from consoles to handhelds? What's next, cell phones will replace PC gaming?

 

I don't put a lot of weight behind the Crytek claims. The gaming experience is pretty shallow at best on Tablets and Phones. I bought a Tablet and tried a few games and it confirms my beliefs that PC gaming has nothing to worry about.

You won't see Flight Simulator X, DCS: Black Shark, rFactor2 or iRacing or other Flight or Racing simulation based games on Tablets. Even if you attach a PS3 controller you essentially have a notebook or portable gaming device configuration.

The only reason developers wish to see this happen is not because of Tablets sales even though they are strong. Rather it's the desire to get console makers to come to grips with the idea that it costs these video game makers millions and millions of dollars of investment to put their games on the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Their wish is to see Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft to support a unified gaming console so developers make their games for 1 machine instead of 3. This idea has been bandied about in the past and my impression is that developers are using the Tablet approach to get the Big 3 to come together and support one machine. I like that approach and think it's best for the industry.

 

it's not really a replacement, it's an evolution.

a gaming PC is a lot of things, one of which is a form factor. the other thing that a gaming PC does is act as a general purpose application OS.

the form factor is going to slow down and die off, but the general purpose application OS is not going anywhere. gaming on a pc also isn't going to die tomorrow or next week or next year. this is a longer term thought.

the point is that as we shift to tablets to do our general purpose work, so too will the games shift to the tablets. pretty simple. gaming PC level graphics aren't going to deteriorate in the meantime. The growth might slow a little bit, but ultimately the tablets are simply going to catch up.

Right now a decent midrange laptop is quite a bit faster than a gaming PC from a few years ago. The tablets won't be far behind. feel free to expand on this, i'm just kind of rushing my thoughts down.

Eventually, when the tablets perform the complete takeover, you might see games with a large budget where the tablet acts as a secondary display and input device for a larger primary display, and potentially leveraging other input devices as well, connected wirelessly.

 

The more casual it becomes... I refuse to pay for casual games.

 

Sounds like a nightmare. So you'll need to buy several Tablets at around $500 to achieve that? And when the new ones come out you'll need to dump your investment and start over? No thanks !

Same here, i'll keep my PC games and ride off into the sunset.

 

Agreed, it's not a replacement. ...but is it an evolution? I don't really think so. As long as the tablets only have a touchscreen as user interface, the gaming experience isn't even as great as on an old school game boy.
The PSP is a great gaming device, the PSP Vita is probably going be pretty impressive... but I never liked a game on an iPad, Galaxy tab or similar device, it just feels crappy imo and it's just not as fun as when you have proper buttons for controlling the game play.

For me, the games on the iPad are a huge step back compared to PSP, Nintendo DS, even to the old GameBoy games... main reason is the lack of proper controls, but also because most games are simply lame when you look at the plot, game play etc.
Just my 0.02.

 

I certainly hope that the casual, tablet style games, aren't the future of gaming. If so, I'll be looking for a new hobby, while I play the hell outta my "old" games on my pc.

 

I sort of can imagine in my wildest dreams Nintendo and Microsoft joining forces on, for example, having a common API in their consoles. Sony will never join on anything like that, they are the "Apple" of the console market. Vendor lock-in FTW (PS3 gamepads don't work on Windows easily, Blu-Ray, digital camera proprietary storage instead of SD cards, etc etc...).

If Nintendo and Microsoft agreed on a common API that would mean that games available in one console are very easy to port to the other. I'm sure that would benefit the consumers, but I'm not so sure whether both Nintendo and Microsoft have something to gain. Perhaps they would, by shoving Sony even farther into third place?

 

What does Cevat Yerli know? He thinks DRM is a good idea.

 

I cant stop laughing

Back on track ... seriously I cant imagine gaming without a mouse & a keyboard ... I cant imagine myself playing the Witcher 2 or any FPS with a touch screen small like hell tablet

& if I connect it to an external monitor & use external controllers (keyboard, mouse, ... etc.) then what is the point of the so called gaming evolution

 

I would love to see how pro someone can get while playing a game like Starcraft 2 on a Tablet

 

So, did Crytek have a plan on how they will get tablet "gamers" to pay $60 per game?

Myself, I have an Android phone. My gaming on the platform consists of 3-5 minutes while I drop a deuce, and that's about it. I will NEVER utilize a touch screen for my main source of gaming.

 

I played on my laptop touchpad and won a couple games, only because I was too lazy to get on my mouse.

I can't see tablets for a "replacement" for PC gaming. I don't want to watch PRO LEAGUE matches holding tablets or getting down on some intense pc games. I can't see myself doing that.

 

Either way, I am pretty sure Crytek made this claim in excitement to the new mobile quad GPU from Nvidia or codename: "Kal-El" (Tegra 3).
It seems that they were able to run Lost Planet 2 on a tablet powered by Tegra 3 at Computex: NVIDIA Kal-El runs Lost Planet 2 on Android tablet

1280 x 800 seems to be the standard resolution for today's tablets and for some to come.

My opinion on this is that it is completely unnecessary. This might just be a marketing strategy.

 

What if he was talking about this?

ICONIA-6120 | Product Model

 

Well we can assume there won't be a Crysis 3 until they can find a way to put dual 6990's in a tablet.

 

Haha, this sounds familiar. It's also handy for train/bus rides... but to be honest, none of the games on mobile devices really holds my interest for more than a few minutes. That's why I stuck pokemon on it

 

Interesting point of view, and I think some of it is true.

For around a year ago, my mother bought a netbook because she thought she would used it. But she already had an iPhone, and it turned out, it could do the job as well as the netbook for her. The same goes for my maternal aunt. She has an iPhone and an iPad. She rarely touches her Macbook.

But I could never game on a tablet-device. I need my mouse and my keyboard because I'm used to it. But touch-screen is the future, and it may replace keyboard and mouse sometime, but I think mouse and keyboard will survive 10-20 years more.

 

The strangest part about tablet adoption is that desktops are being replaced more often than notebooks. No, it doesn't make any sense, but given limited consumer discretionary spending, money that would have gone to a gaming desktop might go to a tablet instead.

 

It's going to be a lot longer than that, we've been using physical keyboards for what, 60 years now? Touchscreens are fine for casual use like texting or sending off short emails, but I can't imagine trying to do anything intensive or complicated on a touchscreen and expect to have any sort of accuracy or control, at least not for the next decade. Actual gaming is out of the question too - how do you expect to aim, fire and move all at the same time on a touchscreen? We're not even counting stuff like interacting with objects without shooting them (think along the lines of playing fallout 3), choosing to scope in or not, etc.

I still think that it will take sophisticated AI/speech-text recognition to replace physical keyboards, and even then you will have people who swear by tactile feedback and will never give up the physical hardware. Gamers will probably move directly from physical hardware to some crazy virtual devices, skipping touchscreens entirely.

 

I can see gaming on something like this.

 

well... I see no probs on this one, but it is not a tablet.

I'm quite interested though what happened with this one though. They announced it for some time now. When it is going to be released? Or is it already released? I may be mistaken.

EDIT: ah ok... Seems I missed the release announcement.

 

The issue I'd have with tablet gaming is the touch feature. I like having mechanical feedback and tools. Some sort of mouse would need to be implemented to be on board with this.

 

I think it would be a little bit awkward to game on a tablet, though i could see a tablet being developed into something like a those big mac desktop are. where they are the screen and the PC and then you just hook up a keyboard and mouse...

 

In other news, Nintendo hosted a company-wide celebration as they located the first person who actually thinks the Wii-U and the WiiPad are good ideas.

 

Why not just game on a laptop? It sure looks like one, lol.

 

Hmm, i think i saw a laptop from Acer i think? earlier this year, where you could take out the screen of it and then the screen would change itself into a tablet. I just cant remember the name right now :S
EDIT: Ok i searched around google, it was Lenovo, and its called IdeaPad U1-CES. Heres a link http://techztalk.com/techwebsite/01...es-impressive-laptop-tablet-hybrid-ideapad-u1

 

This made me lol!

 

lol I agree I would never trade my R2 in to game on a tablet, but that thing is just cool!

 

With technology getting faster, smaller, and more efficient, I can see it happening. Especially with things like that this:
Logitech launches tablet mouse for Android 3.1

 

crytek CEO lol, the crysis games were such fails and crysis 1 couldnt even run smoothly and the next gen gpu LOL.

 

I was thinking the same thing. Also I can see myself putting my finger through the screen when things get real intense!

 

i think the next gen of touch screens will be pressure sensitive. you have to push harder to kill the guy with the knife.

 

There's something to be said about the tactile feel of a keyboard.

 

Or springs under keys that push back up when you finish your downward stroke. Keyboards have 'em for a reason, Acer.

 

your right guys we need a screen like the black berry storm, the whole screen clicks... not.

 

I've used that Acer Iconia at my local Microcenter and Fry's Electronics. Typing on it was such a pain. As others have said, there is something about the tactile feel of a physical keyboard. I feel that way about a smartphone as well, I much prefer a physical keyboard than a virtual on-screen one.

Cevat Yerli and others only care about money. If with tablets, he could get more money from tablet gamers than us "traditional gamers", he would shift all attention to them without batting an eye. These industry honchos will always go to green pastures, giving console gamers higher priority than PC gaming and now will move to cell-phone and tablet gaming instead of console gaming in the future.

 

evolution is precisely the right word. I'm not saying it will be better (and certainly not better right away). I am describing the shift in the industry that is bound to occur.

 

I thought it was consoles that would replace PC gaming 3-4 years ago? Maybe I'm just getting old and going crazy.

Or perhaps there are different markets and rather than the tablet REPLACING PC gaming, it'll just supplement it and be yet another market for gaming.

Sheesh. People have no sense of nuance or reality any more. It's like the whole world is black and white.

 

Maybe I'm close minded but.....

As far as I can predict into the future, based on this point in time....

Ain't happenin'.

Mr. Mysterious

 

Yeah i dont really see it happening either, Though i do see notebooks turning slimmer and more powerful. Though i would not like to game on a tablet, i prefer the "Form" of the notebook...