http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/17/hardware-geeks-fail-bump-crysis
This article is interesting but the author's thesis that hardware requirements are causing low sales is erroneous. The system requirements for UT3 are quite low. Crysis has much higher system requirements, and has sold nearly three times as many units. The article also suggests that Crysis will only run on a system that costs $5000, which is such an exaggeration it makes me think the author has an agenda.
My reason for disinterest in Unreal Tournament 3 is all the groundbreaking engine demos we saw a few years ago were not representative of what Unreal Engine 3 actually turned out to be. I also was turned off by what I saw as the dumbing down of the game for port to console systems.
I wonder what the expected sales for both these games was?
This article is interesting but the author's thesis that hardware requirements are causing low sales is erroneous. The system requirements for UT3 are quite low. Crysis has much higher system requirements, and has sold nearly three times as many units. The article also suggests that Crysis will only run on a system that costs $5000, which is such an exaggeration it makes me think the author has an agenda.
My reason for disinterest in Unreal Tournament 3 is all the groundbreaking engine demos we saw a few years ago were not representative of what Unreal Engine 3 actually turned out to be. I also was turned off by what I saw as the dumbing down of the game for port to console systems.
I wonder what the expected sales for both these games was?