Crysis (er) not in crisis, actually

Now, this is an interesting twist in a tale. Ever since people described its first month sales figures as disappointing, it's been one of those accepted gamer beliefs that the PC-punishing FPS was a flop at retail. Except Joystiq brings to our attention that Crysis has been announced as going Platinum. That is, a million copies sold, worldwide. I've been expecting this - I recently saw the UK figures for PC retail, and Crysis wasn't exactly that far down the list. It kind of shows that we really shouldn't jump to conclusions, especially when even then those original conclusions were pretty untenable if examined closer. Those who actually looked would have realised that "first month" was actually just over two weeks on sale, and the NPD figures put that 86K actually over what they estimated it would.