Tech.co.uk - James Morris, 20 Dec 2007:
For over a year, virtually any mention of Crysis would get a website attention. If you happened to have exclusive game footage previews, you could expect your servers to be hammered to high heaven. But now the game has been out for a month, it's not proving to be the smash hit that was expected. After all the hype, why has Crysis sold so badly?
Which brings us to the other surprising loser at the retail outlet - Unreal Tournament 3 - although its lack of success can be put down to rather different factors than Crysis.
A Crysis VR mod is now available for download, allowing users to experience the first entry in the series in VR
No one cares. The whole can it run Crysis is old, dead and stupid. It's also irrelevant, considering only less than one percent of pc owners, own a high-end PC. Second, I believe Crysis wasn't even optimized properly.
Let's hope the modders can get the other Crysis games working in VR as they use the same Cryengine.
GF365: "There are some games with extraordinary visuals that impress us to this day. Here are old games with outstanding graphics."
I always thought the first 3 Gears of War games looked great and still hold up for today.
Far Cry 2 was awesome. In addition to having demonstrably better physics and AI than later games in the series, it had a lot of design decisions that, criticized at the time, have since been praised in games like BOTW and Dark Souls.
It might not be super amazing by today's standard but I thought Mgs3 looked really good
Digital Foundry: "When Alex Battaglia got his hands on a Steam Deck, this was inevitable, right? So can the Steam Deck really run Crysis? And if so, what type of optimised settings produce the best performance? What's the best balance of features and battery life... and what about 60fps?"
I think even crysis would sell good on the Xbox 360 and PS3...I think they will probably make a version for the consoles...
I'll have UT3 in my ps3 on January 7th, cant wait to kill some mothafu*kas, add me if you want
PSN ID: skynidas
"But a console has never been the best thing to play deathmatch FPS games on - there just isn't the control or responsiveness. I can't see it competing with more story-led titles like Assassin's Creed."
Seriously? I play UT3 with a bluetooth mouse and keyboard and responsivness is a nonissue. This game is loads of intense fun and the guy who wrote this is a tool.
When good games are not published by M$ they go bad - Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3
UT3 is great, UT always was above Halo.
Crysis is pure class even though I cannot run it full.
Console gamers think they know so much about pcs and sales that they compare the sales to their console sales and measure success or failure by that, but pc games don't sell like console games that's a fact, console games use mostly hype to sell to their peek and then sales die with the hype, why do u think EA was expecting a measly 40,000 for first 2 weeks crysis sales and this was in NA alone and yet they got double that figure so they are touting crysis to be a success? because crysis isn't supposed to sell good now that most rigs can't play it well yet alone max it out just yet,
pc games sell with hardware not hype, even half life 2 on pc that sold 4 million copies to date sold like 100,000 in its first month which is only 20, 000 more than crysis, hl2 sold like hell when the average joe rig could max it out, games like crysis, hl2, doom3, oblivion couldn't be maxed out when they came out, so initial sales being weak didnt mean they would fail, expect crysis sales to accelerate dramatically later along the line, that can't happen with console games,
oh and they didn't even include EU sales in the 86,000 from the NPD data, cos it has been proven over time that pc games generally sell a whole lot in EU, check c&c 3 sales for pc, it bombed in US and sold about 6 times better in EU, and they didn't even friggin include online sales when that's the biggest thing now, with steam being a multi-billion dollar company, online sales can't be ignored either, online sales figures are getting too huge for pc to be ignored in these sales charts, considering the advantages it offers, so most pc gamers are migrating from shelves quicker than ever,
To measure the success of a pc game's sales, u have to measure from the time the average rig can max it out, so I can confidently say that cod4 is more of failure in sales because it could run on most average rigs pretty good even though it sold more than crysis, cos the capable rigs determines majority of the game's install base at any given time,
also about ut3, it wasn't good enough for pc gamers, just look at the low scores it's getting for pc, it wasn't innovative enough, pc gamers are spoiled with so many high profile addictive shooters especially multiplayer so i saw ut3 as mediocre game which would still be highly addictive and fun anyways, for a very solid mediocre pc game, 30k sales isn't too bad for the first month considering most pc gamers are waiting to upgrade before buying it,
who disagreed? give ur reasons,
on a side note, lots of ppl on this site who like to disagree with ppl who speak the truth, i mean go to the NPD sales chart topic and ppl got disagrees just for copying and pasting the information, jeez this site is infested with fanboys/tools