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greenmedic88 on 18 May 2008
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sc94597 said:
greenmedic88 said:
Crysis is just one game. It's not an example of the pinnacle of PC gaming when you take the real world performance of the soft in terms of sales. Was it the game itself, or the hardware requirements, or the hardware requirements to actually make the game run at high res on very high settings?

If it's the latter, it may be more of an indicator of why the PC gaming market just isn't doing as well as the console market.

But, I just played through the demo again and now I have to give Crytek their due and buy a copy, even if I don't finish it. As for building a new rig specifically to play Crysis the way Crytek intended, it won't happen.

My response is this


I have no idea what game that's supposed to be although it looks like Crysis. I've already gone on record as saying it has the best visuals of any video game to date for PC and any console, so this would just be more of the same. We've all seen the same screen shots.

And I like that Crysis is closer to "photo realistic" than any previous game to use that phrase. Unfortunately it only looks that good on an optimized rig using a pair of good SLI video cards. Quite a difference between "high" and "very high" and even more so at max resolution. 

I wouldn't personally pay $2-3k to build a suitable rig just to play one game like Crysis. Now if more DX10 games in the future continue to push the boundaries (games that match my tastes) then sure; I'll build one. No big deal.

But the fact that Crysis sales have been far less impressive than the technical aspects calls into question the commercial viability of such games. If they don't make money, they'll either stop making them, scale them back to play on a wider range of PCs, or release them on more platforms (ie. console ports).