Crysis and UT3 sales

Seeing how Crysis and UT3 sales bombed like they did strangely i was actually glad to see this. Dont get me wrong Crysis was a special experience that i enjoyed and would rate in my top10 FPS of all time. But the monstrous hype levels it received and the raveing reviews which were imo nothing short of madness really showed PC gaming is changing. In that more and more people are obsessed with visuals, and i cant believe how many people i know were blinded by Crysis's graphics and as a result completely missed the shortcomingsof the game. Whereas games such as STALKER which try and push the gameplay barrier IMO have been massively underated and so developers will take less risky strategies in the future.

I was wondering how everyone thinks Crytek will react to such poor sales ? Although the conspiricist in me says they will have received a huge amount of money from nvidia for helping toincrease sales in graphics cards.

PC gaming is changing. In that more and more people are obsessed with visuals,

so developers will take less risky strategies in the future.

jemimah666

1) Neither of those statements are news. People were always obsessed with visuals, and most developers stick to tried and true formulas, perhaps adding a couple of new, modest ideas here and there.

2) Crysis doesn't push the gameplay "barrier"? I haven't even played the demo, but judging just by the trailers and a bit of online reading you can already tell it's nothing close to run of the mill material. Fine, maybe it doesn't add a whole new dimension to the FPS genre, but it's definitely nothing close to anything we've seen in the past (except, of course, Far Cry; but even then Crysis adds a whole lot of new gameplay features, not to mention the game's physics, which are nothing like what we've seen int he past, period.)

crysis has hardly flopped, farcry didnt do that much better at the same stage and look at it now. the main reason crysis isnt doing as outstanding as the hype surrounding it would suggest though is because alot of people dont have the system to run at a level that they would like or just arent confident enough in their system.

not every game has to have a bunch of stupid halo loving fanboys buying it straight away to be successful in the long run.

Games like Crysis that have steep hardware requirements are usually slow to sell at first. The gaming masses just don't have the PCs to run the thing well.

UT3 hasn't done well, we all know that but that's what happens when you take a great PC multiplayer game and go multiplatform with it. I hope Epic and Midway learn from this mistake!

One of the biggest problems with STALKER is that it was released before it was ready and had some huge bugs in it. STALKER didn't live up to it's hype either.

Crysis is selling well. You just have to realize how utterly pathetic US PCgaming market is. The only game to sell over 1mln copies in 2007 was Burning Crusade, the only that sold over 500K was WoW, the only that sold over 300K was one of SIMS2 add-ons and there were merely few games that sold more than 100K. You have CnC3 failing to reach even 300K for 10 months in US, while selling over 1mln in two monts worldwide. AdrianWerner

qft and lets not forget that Ea is still not disclosing any sale from their online distribution service. Also don't forget that never a game develloper or publisher would release a game for pc-only if they had no chance to get their invest back. I am fairly sure Crysis sold in the 300k worldwide.

Games like Crysis that have steep hardware requirements are usually slow to sell at first. The gaming masses just don't have the PCs to run the thing well.

UT3 hasn't done well, we all know that but that's what happens when you take a great PC multiplayer game and go multiplatform with it. I hope Epic and Midway learn from this mistake!

One of the biggest problems with STALKER is that it was released before it was ready and had some huge bugs in it. STALKER didn't live up to it's hype either.

zeus_gb

i think ut3 is doing badly mainly because of just how great ut2004 was, there really is no reason for fans of that game to change to ut3 when it doesnt really offer anything that new or improved over a true multiplayer classic. in many ways id say they have gone back a step from 04 (minus graphics ofcourse). they really need to do something different with the series now imo.

The U.S retail market doesn't count for much these days in the overall PC market.

The Witcher didn't even register on the U.S. retail charts.....it sold over a million worldwide in two months.

You do realize that U.S. retail sales of Crysis actually exceeded expections......they were expecting it to only sell 65K in November in U.S. retail, it sold 86K.

You do also realize that Crysis was the #1 selling game across ALL platforms in European countries in November, and that a large majority of PC sales come from overseas.

Most of the first sales for crysis was because of MASSIVE hype, as always.

Look at the g4 review of crysis, i thought that review was the most honest about that game.

Most of the first sales for crysis was because of MASSIVE hype, as always.

Look at the g4 review of crysis, i thought that review was the most honest about that game.

mimic-Denmark

i really disagred with that review but it doesn;t really matter as several other sites and magizines have rated it highly and as far as Single player goes its one of my favorite fps of all time.