"If it doesn't meet our goals for whatever reason and doesn't even break even then there may not be a Crysis 3," he added. "But if it sells anywhere near what [Call of Duty] Black Ops has, there may be more from Crysis."

- C. Yerli

Source:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/285494/news/crysis-3-plot-already-mapped-out-crytek/

Are we gettin greedy? Black Ops was the best selling multiplatform title last year!
And by the overall feedback from the xbox 360 community C2 is no COD killer for them.

they should aim a "little" lower lol, maybe bad company 2?? otherwise there would not be Crysis 3

"Crysis 2 Beta was released yesterday for PS3"
http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/01/26/crysis-2-vs-cod-black-ops-a-disappointment/

Rofl @ that!!!

There is no way it will sell as much as COD. Look at the forums right now, the actual main fan base of Crysis are having connection issues. Now, think about everyone else who doesn't really care about Crysis (this would be the general audience who Crytek is hoping to win over), they too are having connection issues... and because of that there are going to be some who won't buy it simply because they can't get into the demo. There is no way Crysis will end up even close to the COD level on consoles.

I like Crytek and I wish them well, even more though I like Crysis, and I would like to see the trilogy we were promised at the release of Crysis 1, but lets face it, Crytek has made some HUGE mistakes with this game. They alienated the PS3 and PC gamers by giving the 360 the exclusive demo and the stress test, I know that sounds stupid but like it or not there are people who say they won't buy it just because they weren't given anything on their preferred platform.

I hope there is a Crysis 3. Its one of my favorite series. If they cancel it I will be sooooo sad

There will be Crysis 3, Crysis 1 has already sold 3 Million copies on PC, maybe it didn't sold a lot when it was released released due to the low advertisemant and high system requirements, but it was an awesome game and thats why it kept selling over the years until reaching 3 million, for Crysis 2, I predict that after a year of It's release, there will be 1.5-2 million sales on PC, 3-4 Million on XBOX and 1-3 Million on PS3, then PC might get up to 3 million the following year, and if things go good and Console players believe it's better than CoD/Halo, Crysis 3 (late 2012 or early 2013 at least) will sell 3-4 million on PC, 5-8 million on XBOX and 4-6 million on PS3, Also, the PC market is growing Really fast, each year steam gets about the double amount of users than the last year, there are already 30 or 35 million steam users, by the end of the year there might be 45-60 million, a lot of console players are migrating to PC because of all the awesome features like higher resolution, better graphics, DX11, Steam awesome sales (i got 8 games for $60) and because they can use facebook/twitter/youtube/web browsers easily while playing games and because the freedom it gives to tweak, mod and use any controller on your games

Another nice joke by Crytek. xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD


P.S. They can reach sales of Bad Company 2, I think.

Dam come on people either read slower or read better.

"If it doesn't meet our goals for whatever reason and doesn't even break even then there may not be a Crysis 3," he added. "But if it sells anywhere near what [Call of Duty] Black Ops has, there may be more from Crysis."

They have x amount of goals biggest of it is getting break even and some sub goals when those are met.
They will make Crysis 3 and if it sells anywhere near Black ops you get a guarantee sequel to it that was probably meant sarcastic(hard recognize in type form). Probably misquoted C&V is famous for it miss quotes. Dont think Ea has the marketing capital to finance a marketing campaign like black ops for a Ea partner game. Only i see getting that kind of threatment is Battlefield 3 but they probably will go for the mouth to mouth way.

All sales will be from preorders. When this game will be released we will see the true.

Whoever wrote that article for PR should never write one again...

i've reading some hands on reviews and i think the general opinion is that C2 is just another fps, the graphics dont surprise at all, the gameplay is just too much like cod, lacks a lot of innovation and gets boring pretty soon
though im sure if you replace crysis 2 by COD: future warfare in the title you will get as much sells as black ops and all the critic will be delighted with the game
the way this is going: general discontentment of ps3 and pc community and the problems with the demo on xbox thats making a bad impression on the xbox community too, i doubt they will even get to bc2 sales...
and believe me, i would like this game to be successful

Lol, Crytek.

You make funny jokes. Crytek will be very lucky to even get Crysis 2 to sell as good as Bad Company 2.