Poor sales for Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3
Last month’s sales numbers are in, and they spell bad news for PC gamers. The system destroyer Crysis, which was released Nov. 13, only sold 86,633 units. Needless to say, this is surprising for such a critically acclaimed game. Even worse, Unreal Tournament 3, which was released Nov. 19, only sold 33,995 units.
What does this mean for the PC market? Unfortunately this might make game producers think twice when it comes to releasing games on the PC. As an avid PC gamer, this news is heart-breaking to me. I just hope that these numbers will shoot up when people get new PCs and spending money for Christmas. At least the PC has the cash cow Wold of Warcraft to keep game makers interested.
Read Crysis sales in crisis; UT3 gets fragged too
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9 comments to “Poor sales for Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3”
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15. December 2007 at 10:08 pm :
Means nothing to the PC market. As for UT3, it didn’t sell because they released the game in early beta. Mix that with hardly any marketing and guess what you have, pretty bad sales. On Crysis, people probably didn’t buy it since they didn’t think it can be played via their system. Give it a year or so when people can afford the system specs.
15. December 2007 at 11:38 pm :
GGL Wire - More depressing than real news
16. December 2007 at 2:04 am :
didn’t see crysis marketed anywhere, same with UT. They need to step it up, you seem games like halo 3 and bioshock being advertised everywhere!
16. December 2007 at 3:41 am :
UT3 sold poorly because it’s utter crap.
Crysis sold poorly because who can run it? 3SLI systems can’t even run it on high.
Masturbatory development fails. CoD4 and Orange Box did fine and nobody got a stingy eye shot at the end.
16. December 2007 at 12:27 pm :
Guess it has nothing to do with either game being completely sub par and having no substance or possibly a chronic lack of advertising? I bought UT3 and haven’t touched it since buying CoD4. Crytek are fine, they’ve EA and the engine will be license for other games, so they can easily justify the outlay as Epic can.
16. December 2007 at 1:31 pm :
No ads, and add in “system destroyer”. The only people that would buy this game, the avid PC gamer, are broke from the past year of having to ALREADY upgrade to play the latest and greatest. the game doesn’t cost $60, it costs $2060 so you can run it.
16. December 2007 at 1:34 pm :
PC Gaming is expensive, while I love my PCs for most it is an easy choice $500 video card or $399 PS3, $279 360, $250 Wii…
16. December 2007 at 4:11 pm :
WCMaxi: I can run the game on high with decent 30 fps but I have high-end rig. No SLI yet tho.
I think the problem with crysis is that it simply isn’t fun enough. The graphics are amazing yes but graphics is still not gameplay :) CoD4 proved that they could make a fun AND nice looking game.
TF2 is another example where the graphics isn’t breathtaking to look at but it has got a unique style and the gameplay is stellar.
16. December 2007 at 8:15 pm :
not surprising since they aren’t very scalable unlike some of the newer titles out there