Crysis Hardware Requirements

I will say that the game of the year (at least in my opinion) does eat away at your system's resources like a starvin' Marvin, but lets also remember, you still can get great success from your system and the game without having to dish out the 5 Grand to Alienware for a 3 SLI graphics card setup. SLI Zone Gizmodo

There has been a lot of commotion on the inter-web about this issue since the game developers may be in the pockets of companies wanting the consumers to upgrade to their products. We saw this with Tom Clancey's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (GRAW) and the use of a physx card. From all of the reviews, there have been very few that insist that this is necessary for the ultimate game play. Also, take one of the largest software companies in the world tried to do this with their newest operating system, Microsoft's Windows Vista. The bringing of this new shiny new OS was supposed to help MS get their handle on those thinking of joining the Apple arena. It has caused grief and financial loss for the giant.

With game publishers using their landscape as a advertisement ground, how long before subscriptions are necessary, oh wait, they already are. Take Steam. Steam is a product that allows its users to install their games on their computer and or use them anywhere a internet connection is found. Now, since its inception with the ground breaking Half Life 2, this platform has grown exponentially and now carries almost all of the biggest games. There is also security form game makers when they use Steam. They can be rest assured that the game is not being copied with the key. Each key is specifically connected to the account bearer. And lets say that you do not want to hold on to all of those pesky boxes that collect from the games you buy, you can purchase and download all of the games online. It will keep all of the records for you. Keys and all!

Finally, the point I am trying to get to is that no matter what is said or protested, companies will try to get you to upgrade, advertise, or even adopt security measures. That is the nature of progression in the technology field. With the new inventive ways to get more frames per second (FPS), or optimize virtualization with multi-core processors, the future will change all of the time. Trying to keep up with it is a spendy journey that will result in disappointment if you think you will find the be all to end all.