Even though Crytek only recently pulled the wraps off Crysis, the company's next-generation follow-up shooter to Far Cry, they're already being forced to delay the game out of its holiday window and into a vague first quarter slot in 2007.
It could partly Microsoft's fault, really, thanks to the delay of Windows Vista. Electronic Arts, however, told 1UP the game never had a concrete shipping date when it was originally announced (late in the year was about as close as they would comment), so the clarification of first quarter 2007 isn't, in their eyes, a delay at all.
Last week Microsoft revealed internal development on Windows Vista, their long-awaited operating system upgrade to Windows XP, would finish this year, but a several week delay in Vista's schedule means some computer providers wouldn't have a chance to implement the software into their machines until early next year.
In the interest of fairness to all, Vista was officially delayed until January. That proves problematic for a game like Crytek, whose Cry Engine 2 technology is heavily dependant on the features implemented into Microsoft's DirectX 10 architecture -- DirectX 10 is Vista-only.
Edit : Quellen : (Original habe ich gerade nicht mehr gefunden aber hier stehts auch)
http://worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=33018&mode=thread&order=0
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/698/698899p1.html