When you include digital the console versions probably havent done that much better than the PC version. While they have more sales overall was the damage to the game/brand worth it? If Crysis 4 was announced tomorrow not many people would care, and thats sad.

Id expect 700,000+ sales on a PC exclusive game to be fairly profitable, again thats just retail. Steam and Origin must make the totals at least 200-600k higher.

Look at how Star Citizens backers lost their minds when they noticed a PS4 devkit it one of RSI's videos. Games targetting consoles tend to be designed differently compared to games targetting PCs, they also tend to play differently. Best example I can think of right now is Dragon Age Origins vs Dragon Age II, the first being very PC centric (and loved by the community) and the second console centric.

Terrible gross generalization there...what makes you think most people who pirate a game, would have bought it anyway? Where is your proof all PC gamers are entitled brats? If a game is good it will sell on PC.

Making a mega-budget game for PC only is financial suicide, hell, devs go backrupt these days even with PC and consoles to draw on. You need every possible source of income to recoup those kind of ridiculously excessive expenditures. 

The better solution would be to just spend a sensible amount of money on your game, instead of enough to buy a small country.

I never said that. I said pirates were entitled brats.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/11/19/star-citizen-will-never-be-dumbed-down-for-consoles/

It won't come to consoles and so will ARMA 3 as well as Dayz. 

Don't assume that every PC gamers have awesomely expensive rigs and don't also assume that they would pirate because at that point they might as well use steam instead of pirating. This is totally on the fault of the developers being obsessed with the money from console gamers and most of the pirates are really from low income users.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/03/why-poor-countries-lead-world-piracy

If you were poor, you wouldn't have a rig that could play AAA PC exclusives in the first place, so you're irrelevant to this discussion.

As of 2010 Crysis 1 had sold 3 million copies, and Crysis Warhead sold 1.5 million, and the first Far Cry did 2.5 million. Crysis 2 and 3 are probably also over a million each on PC by now including digital sales.

You underestimate how developers will go out of their way to targeting minimum specs. Many people with a R7 240 will be able to get by. Sure it may be sub hd and what not but they'll still get through so if anything you would drop your worthless agument on piracy being the problem when it's very clear that these poorer countries will find a way. 

If you can afford a rig that could play Crysis, you can afford to buy games.

And poverty is not a license to steal.

You don't need a "AAA rig" to play most games. As someone who has visited and lived in developing countries with huge piracy most don't even care about specs, most people play AAA PC games in medium or even low settings, and that includes games like Crysis.