Retail Sales of PC Games Dropped 14% in 2008

[shio]

Final-Fan said:

shio said:
And PC games don't usually have huge budgets because they're cheaper to develop and spend little on advertisement. See Crysis, which only cost $22 millions, and is far, far more technically advanced than any console game.

That's because much of the cost of console games is in squeezing more performance out of the available hardware, whereas in the case of Crysis it seems as if they said, "Fuck it, juice the graphics/physics and raise the requirements!"

That's not true though. Crysis is extremely well optimized, and the minimum requirements show that. Of course you still need a beast to max the game, but that's understandable.