Recent sales numbers from research firm NPD show just how big the gap between PC and console game sales is. The Tech Report notes that while Call of Duty 4 and Assassin’s Creed, both for the Xbox 360 sold 1.57 million and 980,000 copies respectively in November, the much hyped PC games Crysis by Crytek and Epic Games' Unreal Tournament 3 only sold 86,633 units and 33,995 units, respectively. Overall expected sales also pale in comparison:
Overall, NPD and the simExchange forecast sales of 716,000 copies of Crysis and 540,000 copies for Unreal Tournament 3. Those numbers pale in comparison to the expected sales of 2.71 million for Assassin's Creed and 4.57 million for Call of Duty 4.
Did Crytek hurt their sales by focusing so much on having superb graphics for powerful PC’s? Were potential buyers scared away from a game in which even CPUs released last year fall below the supported processor specification.