Eh... just sounds like crytek is scapegoating. The first thought that came into my head is they didn't sell as much because no one can friggen run the game. I'm not buying $400 - $600 worth of video cards just to run a stupid game (that looks kinda boring anyway)... I could buy an xbox! Oh wait... I did. I have friends that bought 9800GX2's, but are bored already... I'm enjoying my xbox, halo 3, and gta 4.

IMO, crytek just missed with their game. They should have put more emphasis on a good story and gameplay and less on the technological, next-gen-ish nature of their game. PC games are going away... I'm sad to say, as I have been an avid pc-gamer and pc-builder since the early 90's, but after playing halo 3 at a friends house, I just couldn't make myself invest another $1200 on a nice pc rig just to be able to play crysis and supreme commander. I just wish Microsuck would make the xbox compatible with my Razer mouse! Then they'd really kill the pc-gamer market. But do they really want to do that? Think of all the gamers that had to buy new copies of vista... hm...

Rob, almost as sad as the day that Sierra sold out.....:-(

They targeted the wrong market... by creating a game that can only be played by the PC enthusiast, they were practically BEGGING for it to be pirated!

If you want to profit in the PC arena, you need to appeal to a broader base. Look at World of Warcraft or The Sims to see what type of games make money on the PC.

Crysis may be the best looking game ever, but only a small percentage of gamers can enjoy it at the highest details (in fact, at the highest resolutions, NOONE can play it at the highest details!). This small percentage also happens to be the demographic most likely to pirate....

PC games can still make immense profits... just not this one...

http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html

Come on. Usually I can watch these and enjoy. Look around at the hardware surveys. Most users are still on Single core computer 1gig ram or less. You Release a game, that isnt as good as its hype against Call of Duty 4, that requires more hardware than most people have.

At a time when upgrading to the latest hardware means buying at a time of change. You wanna know what would have sold more copies. Push the release date back till hardware to run the game is cheaper, drop the effects.

My pc can run this game. I didnt buy it cause COD 4 and TF 2 and portal were better purcahses, hands down.

the game was good, not great. the game was waaaay to short, expecting people to pay for subsequent expansions. hardware reqs were way to high to get everyone in that immersive environment. the excuses that piracy caused the failure is a joke and ignorant on the crytek spokesmans part. piracy is a problem with all games and does contribute and i agree the pirates need to be jailed for life as they detract from my entertainment, and anything that effects me directly needs to go away forever, put in a hole to rot, that being said piracy didnt kill the crytek platform,the length of the game, a ripoff in my eyes because it was so short and what i paid for it and the requirements for the max settings. story, length of game for the money, and hardware reqs, thats is the bottom line, nothing else.