Michael Glück, lead programmer at Crytek for the Playstation 3 version of Crysis 2, has told Play Magazine that he thinks that "with Crysis 2 you will see the quality bar being set at a very high level that games will struggle to excel".
While he does accknowledge that future titles will be able to build upon the CryEngine 3, which Crysis 2 uses, they won't get much further graphically. "Still with an AAA title shipped on PS3, you get the chance to improve further, so the next game developed with CryEngine 3 after Crysis 2 on PS3 will not be worse and rather be more polished and have higher quality in all areas," he said. "However, it is unlikely to see a major improvement in graphics as we try to not cut any graphical feature and rather optimize it until it becomes feasible. So I expect more density of game elements, physic effect, more interaction, but the major graphics quality will not be significantly improved."