In an interview with Edge Online, Epic's president Mike Capps decided to comment a bit on Crytek's Cryengine 3 and compare it to Unreal Engine 4 which Epic have been working on since 2003. He believes their engine will be the dominant engine of the next generation of machines, even more so than Unreal 3 has been during the last couple of years.
"They've positioned themselves strongly as the ‘we're gonna be on console, push one button and it's great on all three platforms' engine," Capps said about Crytek. "Warhead was going to come out in 2008 and was going to be their first big console game, and then they just cut console development from CryEngine 2 entirely, and suddenly we had a new engine. So, they've yet to ship an Xbox 360 game and we're five years in."
"It surprises me that people take them seriously as a crossplatform engine company. We don't know how to compete against a company that hasn't shipped yet. It's all potential, so we'll see."