They did split the fanbase though.....

If this is the sales for the holidays, cant imagine the sales after it.

It's been confirmed it's coming out for PS4 later. No surprise people are waiting for the better version.

I know I was going to pick this up to add to my Xbox One exclusives only library and erased it from the list when a PS4 release was confirmed.

Bare in mind that these are only VGchartz numbers.

They were better off launching the game with U4 or early 2016. The holiday combination of COD and every other annual titles have proven too much for TR, not to mention FO4. Blame poor management at CD and MS.
Worse decision of the gen.

Isn't this standard for Tomb Raider? I sincerely doubt that this game would have had massive sales even if it was PS4 exclusive. People like to act like the first one had blockbuster sales and in a sense it did. But the vast majority of those sales were at basement prices. I would not be shocked in the least if CD and SE were planning on this and took the MS money to make sure that it didn't need nearly as many basement sales to break even.

Seriously?

http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/29/crystal-dynamics-tomb-raider-had-best-week-one-sales-in-franchi/

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/tomb-raider-sets-franchise-sales-record/1100-6406183/

1M in 48 hours, and 3.4M sold in the first month (Release 5th March 2013, PR about 3.4M sold 29th March 2013). Given that TR didn't see massive discounting for quite some time, it's doubtful that 'the vast majority' of the LTD sales of TR2013 were at 'basement prices'.

If anything, it seemed to prove that perhaps Square Enix are simply bad at budgeting :

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/tomb-raider-fails-to-reach-sales-target/1100-6405929/

The cheap reboot 'definitive editions' probably pushed the series over the top profit-wise, but it was certainly alarming that such a successful title could be viewed as a disappointment by SE.

Now let us compare to TR2015.

We know that the UK numbers were pretty awful, let's be generous and estimate 65k by now. And the US numbers look to be presumably 150k or so by now. Oh hell, let's go crazy and say that the rest-of-world numbers are another 100k (lol-worthy, but whatever). That's 315k. Now let's be exceedingly generous and double that number for the first full month, even though games almost always lose a significant % of sales week by week as time goes on. That's 630k. Almost certainly wildly optimistic when faced with the data we have, but let's just take that as the best case. If anything, the overly generous number should more than account for the minor sales of the XB1 Best Buy TR bundle.

630k <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 3.4M First Month.

And in closing, NO, it should not have been a PS4 exclusive. It should have been :

(1) - Mutiplatform just like TR2013.

(2)- Released at a sane time, either before Halo 5 started off the holiday bonanza, or afterwards, say on Black Friday or early December. Literally the worst time imaginable was releasing it on the same day as Fallout 4, immediately following Black Ops 3, and immediately preceding Star Wars Battlefront. Put simply, it was doomed not just by temporary platform exclusivity to a brand that isn't a market leader, but up against the most brutal competition of the year. TR2013 cleared north of 3 million in a month launching in March. Why didn't they learn that was a decent strategy?

And in closing, it has to be clear that detonating a franchise of your company in exchange for some temporary payoff cash is REALLY short sighted. The brand has far more value if you can build it up and maintain a solid fanbase. The way this was handled runs the serious risk of irreparably damaging the brand of Tomb Raider, particularly if it's going to be continually mismanaged by the publisher.

The devs did more than great work imho, even the 360 port is well made. But the business deals behind it seem truly mismanaged and blind.

EDIT : Some quick math on first month differntial. Assuming the ~$27ish per copy publisher return holds true for the first month, the missing 2.7 million copies compared to TR2013's first month add up to around SEVENTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS. Obviously the future PC and PS4 releases can compensate for that somewhat IF they are fairly successful, but again, late ports almost always fizzle out. Let's go crazy and assume that they can make half of those sales back in the future, 1 million PS4 first month, and 350k PC first month. That still leaves $37,500,000 on the table as lost income.

Ask yourself logically : did Microsoft give $37,500,000 or more for timed exclusive rights? On what planet would that make sense? I think the answer is obvious.

WW hardware numbers look wrong. It's hard to believe that PS4 only outsold X1 by 100k WW when the US 128k sales lead for week of the 28th was cancelled out by EU PS4 sales and then beaten by an approx 20k units. this means X1 sold equally as well as the PS4, if not, then slightly better than the PS4, that week in RoW territories.

What this means for bundles of NDC, RotTR and SWBF I don't know, but it could well be that all numbers are off for the week of 28th.

I agree. The WW Hardware numbers definitely look like they were incorrectly put in, or something.

bevochan said: In the US for the 2nd week of sales, Rise of Tomb Raider fell to 20th, only selling 31k (during the busy mid-Nov months).  Less than half of Uncharted Collection which came out 6 weeks ago.  Not sure if this game will have legs like everyone says it will.   1 Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) (PS4) Electronic Arts, Shooter 1,111,323 1,111,323 1 2 Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) (XOne) Electronic Arts, Shooter 1,000,466 1,000,466 1 3 Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (XOne) Activision, Shooter 305,407 2,380,791 3 4 Fallout 4 (PS4) Bethesda Softworks, Role-Playing 299,358 1,555,070 2 5 Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (PS4) Activision, Shooter 291,307 2,296,368 3 6 Fallout 4 (XOne) Bethesda Softworks, Role-Playing 271,444 1,381,180 2 7 Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon (3DS) Nintendo, Action 73,418 73,418 1 8 Halo 5: Guardians (XOne) Microsoft Game Studios, Shooter 70,923 1,281,096 4 9 Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (PS4) Sony Computer Entertainment, Action 70,670 480,878 7 10 Madden NFL 16 (PS4) Electronic Arts, Sports 67,321 1,150,699 13 11 Madden NFL 16 (XOne) Electronic Arts, Sports 60,762 982,200 13 12 NBA 2K16 (PS4) Take-Two Interactive, Sports 58,176 1,168,369 8 13 Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (X360) Activision, Shooter 49,182 300,657 3 14 NBA 2K16 (XOne) Take-Two Interactive, Sports 45,280 796,432 8 15 Stella Glow (3DS) Atlus, Role-Playing 39,780 39,780 1 16 Fallout 4 (PC) Bethesda Softworks, Role-Playing 37,859 205,444 2 17 Sword Art Online: Lost Song (PS4) Namco Bandai Games, Role-Playing 33,691 33,691 1 18 Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (X360) Microsoft Game Studios, Misc 33,357 4,545,923 129 19 FIFA 16 (PS4) Electronic Arts, Sports 32,834 428,691 9 20 Rise of the Tomb Raider (XOne) Square Enix, Adventure 31,216 136,297 2

People play "Soccer" in the U.S too o_O ???

I'm shocked, but glad as well :).