I think piracy hurts these games way more than scary system requirements; UT will sell way better on Xbox360/PS3.

I hope people don't forget that Crytek is a Engine Developer first, then a game developer. They did Far Cry and Crysis to show what their engine can do. Thats why they sold their Far Cry IP: No need for an IP. The game is just a thing to sell the engine. Don't know how good thats working, but I would guess Crysis is an IP of EA. But thats just an guess. Did Cryteck develop Far Cry for the consoles? I thought that was Ubisoft to milk the IP.

If Crysis came to the console could they not just use the HDD to make the game load and play better, RFoM has over 200mb on the HDD and Ratchet has over 500mb.

As sad as it might sound, it's true. People give away $600 for the latest nVidia/Ati GPU because they think it's worth it and they don't have much choice; there are no pirated, $200 equally powerful GPUs. That's not the case with the games, though. Most people think "heck, it's the same thing and it's some much less expensive". 

Hardware consumer behavior is totally different than the software one.

 Hmm, I'm not so sure that that's the case. Oblivion was another title that exceeded most peoples PC's in terms of requirements, but it never really sold well on the PC despite hardware getting faster.

To top things off; like Nazna said, Crysis is majorly hyped up shooter which offers precious little in the way of the revolution we were promised, and I think that while reviewers loved it to bits, gamers felt disappointment creep up on them as they loaded it onto their rigs with teary eyes and a heart full of expectation.

This game doesn't deserve to sell well imo, and Crytek will learn a valuable lesson from all this; it's more important to impress hardcore PC gamers (which are well accustomed to good shooters) by making a fantastic game rather than impress hardware geeks by releasing a piece of software that cannot be properly run on any rig on the planet... When I play a PC game, I WANT the graphics and effects on max, that's what PC gaming is about! Shame on you Crytek...  

 That's the problem you see, it won't look as sweet as you think... Be prepared for a letdown my friend.

Epic's Mark Rein recently stated, it's

"less and less economically viable to do the super high-end stuff" on the PC.

Rein also thinks Crysis is about as good as it will get on the PC for a very long time to come. Crytek has been looking to hire PS3 developers.

What?A friend got a new PC Intel Core2Duo @ 3GHz with an 8800GT and 2Gb RAM and we could play the game at Very High settings with a respectable 30fps, and at High around 45-50fps. So i don't think there is no PC that can play Crysis.