Epic's Mark Rein has commented that game consoles will 'pretty much define' what the next five years of PC gaming looks like. He believes that Directx 10 won't be fully taken advantage of until the next generation of consoles hit the market as its very difficult financially to produce top notch PC titles that can not run on either the PS3 or Xbox 360.

“Consoles will pretty much define what the next five years of games look like on the PC,” he said.

"To be honest, and I'm going to cast a small pall on the industry here, I don't think you're going to get much higher [than the likes of Crysis, pictured] until the next generation of consoles.

“… We're just barely coming into the sweet spot of the next-gen consoles... We're at the point where it's viable to ship games on these next-gen consoles and it's going to be a gold mine for a couple of years.

"Publishers are generally putting their money where the highest return is, and in the past that's been on consoles and I think that's still the case. So if you build the game that's a really super amazing high-end game, how do you make all the money you could make from that game, because it'll be too high-end eventually to be on PS3 or Xbox 360."