... but PC gaming is ridiculously expensive. So I don't see how that's going to covert people.

What do you mean convert? People has been playing games on their PC since the begining. Just because some peeps can't afford the system required to play Crysis doesn't mean that PC gaming is dead. Even now there are more people playing on HL2 games on Steam than Xbox Live have Halo 3 players.

Keyword: ALMOST.

Yet so far.

you are jus makn yourself sound like a moron gamesblow...you cant compare the cost of a high end computer with a console....its 2 totally different types of product...hell when i bought my video card it cost more then a damn ps3 did....and thats just a graphics card....and im sure your expensive name drop "Alienware" computer is not close to the same price as a ps3...so please just give it a rest tryn to compare the ps3 and PC....they are totally different markets when your dealing with a game like crysis that is suppose to be the future....you really think they expect to sell it like hotcakes?? This is more of a promotion for their engine than anything....

So you cant put a game like uncharted or crysis in the same sentence when comparing sales...cuz it jus doesnt float....why not compare it to its competition...like ya know other consolesssss games

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Half life 2 sold just about 100,000 in its first month, that's 20,000 more than crysis but it ended up selling 1.5 mill by the end of the year, and 4 mill by 2006, wait, wait, did i hear something? OWNED!!
And they didn't even add steam sales which totalled 20 million for the half life games and css games,2 half games and 2 counterstrike games= 20 million sold, u do the math
Crysis will succeed big time, pc games are not like console games, Uncharted will be lucky to hit a mil by next year especially with ps3s big guns coming out, MARK MY WORDS, Crysis will sell more than a million, it will just take some time especially when more ppl can max it out, pc games sell alot more farther into their life cycles, console games use the hype to fire up initial sales within first few months so it rises sharply and sales just slowly die off after, all best selling console games hit their peak in the first few months, all best selling pc games hit their peek years into the game's life cycle

EU and ONLine sales isn't part of the 86,000 crysis sold, and that's not even too far of Uncharted sales considering ratio of ppl who can run crysis now versus who have ps3s is very small, almost 7 million ps3s, one of the best looking games on ps3 and yet selling 360,000 in its first month, it sold ok but it should have been a whole lot more, Naughty Dog deserve more for their hardwork, it was an excellent game so shutup and enjoy ur game and stop whining about sales,
NO AMOUNT OF SALES WILL CHANGE THE QUALITY OF A GAME, AN AWESOME GAME IS STILL AN AWESOME GAME, BESIDES COD4, CRYSIS IS IN FACT THE BEST FPS EXPERIENCE YOU CAN GET RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT GIVES YOU A TASTE OF THE FUTURE

i didnt mean uncharted bombed, it sold ok but it wasnt anything special, pc and console are two different markets that work differently, pc games like crysis that push hardware will not sell the first few months they come out because high end hardware costs an arm and a leg, console games on the other hand make the larger percentage of their sales in the first few months, console games sell when the hype is hot and the game just came down, when focus moves to another game, sales die down, look at bioshock for 360, first 3 weeks, it sells 400k and weekly sales dropped drastically when moh airborne and stranglehold came out,
FYI, the 80,000 does not include EU sales which would probably be more and pc games don't include online sales which trounce over shelf sales these days, more pc gamers have migrated from going to the store to grab a physical copy of the game bcos of advantages like preloading and getting the game before retail release, those figures account for a lot of crysis owners and are very significant but they are not added to sales, another reason why u cant compare console and pc sales by the raw figures
crysis will keep selling and rates of sales will go up when new hardware comes out and current hardware drops in price, my point is even best selling pc games like half life 2 started with 100k figures in their first month but went on to sell like crazy after a year or two, it is very unlikely for a console game to follow that pattern even yet Uncharted which would be overshadowed by Sony's massive line of AAA titles next year, that's all I'm saying

You're obviously a moron who think that unless a PC game move a million units within the first few months it's a failure. By your standards every single PC game in history was a bomb. How many units did Doom moved in the first few months? What about Quake and Half Life? Just for the heck of it...The Sims? By console standards they had crap for sales but over time they were huge.

The top selling PC gamers don't usually have mega launches and uber fanboys and heavy reliance on reviews like the console. PC sales are usually generated by community vibes which is slow in coming and the money is made through the life of the product. For a PC game like Crysis that life can be measured in YEARS. I could list examples but it'll go on for pages.

So at least know WTF you're talking about before you start bashing something that is a complete mystery to you.

the game isn't even using sli technologies yet so for current sli setups to notice performance gains shows how effective the engine is, vista is where the blame is at, microsoft couldnt reach the launch window for service pack 1 which does a great deal for video drivers concerning sli optimization, memory management and multicore optimization, it's the operating system not the engine, cry engine 2.0 is very optimized and scales very well, nvidia drivers are even still struggling in beta stages with billions of glitches,
Just so you know, Crysis can play in XP with resolutions as high as 2560x1600 with no AA and all high settings with very playable framerates on a single video card(GTX), it runs very well in xp, and the with the dx10 hacks, it runs even better with settings cranked up to hacked very high, that even proves more that it is the Operating System Vista and not the game engine, I get 20 more fps in xp than vista at the same high settings and resolution,
Besides if u r pc gamer, u know that's how it is, the people at crytek said themselves that no current hardware can play crysis with every setting turned up to the possible max and that is very understandable cos i dont know how many ppl would think about using a crazy resolution like 1920x1200 with 8xAA with a game as detailed as crysis at the moment? Most people game at lower resolution with lower antialiasing, the point of the tri sli was to turn everything to the max and still get playable framerate, AA is a framerate killer especially when polygon count increases cos if u notice benchmarks, the game becomes very playable with fps as high as 50 and 60 without AA and single digit fps with AA turned on, most console games don't even have AA or sometimes sacrifice pixels to get more AA for playable framerates, that just goes to tell u how AA is an fps killer,
Also, from one of the interviews, the game was optimized to run at 45fps so anything beyond that would look unrealistic and sped up because of the detailed motion blur, in other words 30 fps in crysis would feels as fluid as 45 fps in cod4

Great post theox2g7