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Crysis Series Is Only "Breaking Even", Says Crytek

Posted on Monday, November 12 @ 12:03:13 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

Crysis and Crysis 2 may have both sold over three-million units each, but even that hasn't been enough in today's climate.

Crysis Co-Founder, Cevat Yerli, shared with Eurogamer that the Crysis series hasn't yet turned a profit for Crytek despite a fair amount of success.

...effectively Crysis 1 and 2 and 3 are just about breaking even. If we meet the forecasts - and I can't reveal the forecasts - then we are going to break even.

He then explained the current conditions of the market which developers like Crytek face.

The console sales are down. The PC sales are down for the retail markets. But they're getting bigger for F2P and online markets. So for a retail game like Crysis 3 it's going to be a tough one to break out and hit the big numbers.

If three-million units sold isn't enough, it's mind-boggling to think of how much funding went into each game's development. Developers have traditionally aimed for the milestone of one-million copies sold, but that has quickly become a thing of the past with today's increasing sophistication of graphical technologies.

Despite Crytek's lukewarm response to Crysis' sales, Crysis 3 is on the horizon and a Crysis 4 has already been confirmed. Maybe once they force their way into popularity they can achieve the significant numbers that Call of Duty and Battlefield do.
Related Games:   Crysis, Crysis 2
Tags:   Crysis, crytek


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  • Alex_Osborn
    Alex_Osborn
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
    Those games certainly weren't cheap to make.
    0 2
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
    Ya, I don't think cheap and Crysis can actually be put in the same sentence.

    ****, I just proved myself wrong.
    0 3
  • pennpsu
    pennpsu
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
    Time to end the stagnant price points for games. I say let the prices float to market value. Keeping all games at relatively even pricing is almost like subsidizing the industry. Would you pay $ 75.00 for the next ME3 title? Maybe...maybe not. But some Wii shite-ware priced exactly the same as Crysis make zero sense, financially for developers or as gamers looking to spend dollars wisely. If you remove those pricing barriers, I think we would see more diversity and innovation. Its difficult to maintain your margins when the price at the counter is the same as it was in the 90's, but dev costs have skyrocketed.
    0 2
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
    Not to mention some games might get better scores from critics who consider how much games cost.
    0 1
  • Guernica
    Guernica
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
    The game might be breaking even but they make most of their money off of their engine right?
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
    I don't think so. Name other games that use Cryengine... Far Cry.... That's all I got.
    0 1
  • Guernica
    Guernica
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 2:44 pm
    I guess a quick google search shows games announced but never released (at least not yet). They probably include any of those figures into their breaking even anyway otherwise they'd be reporting on how good cryengine was doing.
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
    Some of the games announced but never released looked really cool though. Ryse looked cool back before we knew for sure that Kinect was garbage.
    0 0
  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander
    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
    Mechwarrior Online uses CryEngine 3. They remind me of that face every single damn time I play it.
    0 1
  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander
    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
    That "face" should be "fact". Comments seriously need an edit feature...
    0 1
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 3:16 pm
    Ah I had no idea. It's obviously not as heavily used as say Unreal Engine 3, and I think that's a big problem for Crytek as a company.
    0 0
  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000
    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
    A couple Korean MMOs make use of the CryEngine (Aion and ArcheAge). Apparently, Homefront 2 is going to use the engine also.
    0 2
  • Masterwabbit
    Masterwabbit
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Nov 13th, 2012 at 11:45 am
    I believe Nexuiz uses the Cryengine. Not that the game's any good or has a decent population now...
    0 0
  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
    Let's just hope home front p
    0 0
  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 6:40 pm
    Doesn't crash at main menu screen anymore everytine I load it
    0 0
  • BigTruckSeries
    BigTruckSeries
    Joined: May 2006
    Posted: Nov 13th, 2012 at 4:28 am
    Maybe if they'd kept it simple and just let me murder poorly armed soldiers - instead of stupid, generic aliens, they wouldn't have had to spend as much money?

    IN FACT - they should have started by porting CRYSIS 1 to the console and then had people buy Crysis 2. There are more people who hadn't played Crysis 1 because they didn't have a super-PC than did play afterall.

    Crysis 3 looks like SHlT to me. I just want to kill regular people. Now you gotta be Robin Hood in the jungle???
    0 0
  • Vanguard53
    Vanguard53
    Joined: Sep 2012
    Posted: Nov 13th, 2012 at 9:37 am
    You can buy a digital copy of Crysis 1 on Xbox Live's Games On Demand for 19.99 I believe
    0 0
  • BigTruckSeries
    BigTruckSeries
    Joined: May 2006
    Posted: Nov 13th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
    I already have it. But I want a new game where you take the nanosuit up against Iranians and perhaps even the Chinese.
    0 0
  • BigTruckSeries
    BigTruckSeries
    Joined: May 2006
    Posted: Nov 13th, 2012 at 4:29 am
    If you want to learn how to turn a profit, all you gotta do is ask these people behind Call of Duty. They've made these ******* kids drop more than the cost of the original game on pathetic map packs.
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