Crysis a financial fiasco?

2 more reasons it may have not sold well speaking from personal experience:

It came out close to Christmas and for me it's on my Christmas list so I didn't buy it yet :P

There's a glut of really good PC games that just came out recently, from the Orange Box to Bioshock; UT3 to The Witcher. If you're like me and work 40+ hours a week you just can't play every game that comes out right away when you already have 1-2 unopened on your desk.

Basically what I'm saying is PC sales are anything but cut and dry.

Come on, people. Don't be stupid.

Do you really think EA would greenlight a project that is so clearly not viable for so-called "mainstream" gaming? Crysis isnt halo. Looking at raw sales numbers isnt going to give you an accurate account of how much money the entire project is actually producing.

As noted earlier in this thread, the actual sales for this game was actually about 20k higher than those predicted by EA. EA knew that the game wouldnt sell too well, so why did they greenlight the project? It's simple really. System pushing titles such as crysis have been hugely successful in the past, and will continue to be succesful in the future because of the multiple streams of revenue they produce:

1. Sales- Firstly there is revenue produced by the game sales. As we all know the numbers thus far havent been great, but they were never expected to be. Just remember than Pc games like this can have steady sales for many years, and digital distributed copies are not tracked by any official source

2. Licencing- Here is how it works: Company makes game engine > Other companies pay big $$$ to use that engine to make their own games. In this instance you can call Crysis a glorified advertisement. This is basically how ID makes their money. You rarely see ID games on top selling lists yet they are one of the oldest and most successful developers in the industry because they are the power behind many of the most well known games released in the last 15 years. Many companies, organizations and even government agencies are already lining out the door to use the Crytek2 engine.

3. Bundles & GPUs- Crysis is a system pusher. It's the game everyone will be using to benchmark systems for the foreseeable future. How valuable must it be for NVIDIA to have their logo plastered all over the box. GPUs are big business. Nvidia and ATI sell millions upon millions every year. Having their brand associated with the most advanced game on the market is something they are always trying to do, and they pay good money for it. Also note that Crysis is being bundled with Nvidia Series 8 GPUs which would probably account for a sizeable chunk of people not buying the standalone box, since most will have to upgrade to play the game anyway.

So, yeah...sorry to ramble but people need to realize that they cant gage a game like crysis the same way as with mario or other games. Just looking at raw sales numbers is both innacurate, and not a proper indicator of the games success in the industy. Games like Crysis play by different rules

It's amazing how even though this games a huge system hog. People don't realize how well optimized it is, I mean c'mon, I've seen people run the thing with a 6800.ElArab

[QUOTE="ElArab"]It's amazing how even though this games a huge system hog. People don't realize how well optimized it is, I mean c'mon, I've seen people run the thing with a 6800.wackys

And i bet it runs mediocre at best?

Crysis and far cry is the same.

When far cry was released ppl had problems running it because o the system specs. Far cry still sels today.

Crysis would do the same. I think Crytec knew this would happen but also know that they created a masterful game way ahead of the rest and its time.

[QUOTE="ElArab"]It's amazing how even though this games a huge system hog. People don't realize how well optimized it is, I mean c'mon, I've seen people run the thing with a 6800.wackys

Serves 'em right. I mean, The Witcher deserves to sell a whole lot more, while Crysis doesn't IMO.

I mean, you can't honestly tell me that anyone actually thinks that Crysis is GOTY or anything like that? Crysis is good fun for a bit, but THAT'S IT.
I HOPE that the disappointing sales are because people realize Crysis is actually pretty average, but I'm afraid it's because of the system requirements.
Anyone who says Crysis is GOTY needs to get a grip and check into a overhyped idiots treatment centre. Or they need to play more games.
ShotGunBunny

You people really worry me sometimes

Serves 'em right? Who pissed in your cereal? Crysis is a good game. You don't have to like it but wishing ill on a game because you don't like it is a little messed up. Maybe you should see a shrink

Games with such steep hardware requirements are usually slow to sell.zeus_gb

Especially at Christmas time when money is spent more than any other time of the year. Had Crysis been released during the summer of 2007 i would of probably thought it worth while to spend £300 upgrading to an 8800 just to play it with decent visuals.

But since October onwards there has been just so many good games to buy and play (still not finished all of them) that it really isn't worth paying £300 upgrading for one game.