Oh come on, stop badgering the guy just because his computer is slightly out of date. Granted I didn't agree with his claim that just because Crysis won't run on older machines that it automatically fails. Of course sales wise it's definitely going to be hurt by the high system requirements. If its gameplay is good, at worst it will become one of those belated sleeper hits, initially ignored due to its high system requirements, then praised later on by PC gamers when the tech has caught up to the point where "mainstream" hardware can run the game. I'm sorry your computer can't run Crysis, but having a game come out that your computer cannot run is just part of the territory when it comes to PC gaming.
If it's any consolation, it's games like these that push hardware companies like Nvidia and ATI to create better, more powerful cards, which will drop the price of the current "OMGWTF AMAZING" cards to a more affordable price range. Hell, if it wasn't for developers like Crytek, we'd probably be several generations behind in GPU tech right now. You'd have GPU manufacturers pushing out a card once every few years, never updating it or dropping the price, which would hurt *all* gamers, as even the consoles depend on the technological advancements of the same GPU companies that PC gamers are so apt to purchase cards from. Imagine graphical leaps for each generation that are even crappier than that of the gamecube to the wii for every console, wouldn't that suck?
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