Here's what happened with Crysis 2. Crysis 1 blew everyone away with the graphics. It was PC-exclusive and pushed everyone's rigs to the limits with sweet delicious eye candy. The gameplay itself was actually quite new and exciting.
Crysis 2 is announced - Crytek themselves say how PC games will not be let down. The game was supposedly made-for-PC and would be an improvement on #1.
The beta launches. It looks @$&@ing terrible. There's a console stench everywhere as menu buttons on-screen show Xbox controller queues. Crytek apologises, says it's just a beta.
It launches. As said above, it launched with no DX11. The textures on Nintendo64 games were better (not opinion, fact). AI sucked, it was linear, motion blur everywhere. PC gamers felt that their beastly rigs had morphed into Xboxes. It was the biggest gaming letdown of that year. Everyone raged, everyone who pre-ordered was seething at the blatant lies Crytek fed us.
It's gonna take a lot to change that. Crysis 4 maybe, with next-gen consoles.. but even then, the reputation is tarnished forever.