Sales of Rise of the Tomb Raider Undermined by Release Window

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trixiemafia86 on 20 January 2016

padib said:

Roronaa_chan said:
It would have sold even less in a different release window

Yeah that's true. No matter how you slice it it would have been low. Why would it be better in another window I wouldn't want that.

if not for MS policy of packing all its releases into holiday period, their exclusives would have sold more. not mindblowing numbers but better. that strategy seem to work well for sony. Tomb Raider would have sold more outside the holiday period. what can compete with Call of Duty, Halo, Fallout and Star Wars at the same time. TR was sent out like a lamb for the slaughter, and those games ate it up.

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trixiemafia86 on 20 January 2016

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Blame Fallout 4.

it's funny how the devs claimed to be confident about taking Fallout head-on. they underestimated fallout and paid for it.

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trixiemafia86 on 20 January 2016

padib said:

trixiemafia86 said:

if not for MS policy of packing all its releases into holiday period, their exclusives would have sold more. not mindblowing numbers but better. that strategy seem to work well for sony. Tomb Raider would have sold more outside the holiday period. what can compete with Call of Duty, Halo, Fallout and Star Wars at the same time. TR was sent out like a lamb for the slaughter, and those games ate it up.

I still think it would have sold less in other windows because I don't want it to sell more.

lolz i see... how do you predict it would sell on PC and PS4

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Jimbo1337 on 20 January 2016

Let us all not forget the real reason why they had a timed exclusive in the first place, which was to go up against Uncharted 4. So yes, it did go up against Fallout 4, Battlefront, Black Ops III, and Halo 5. But you also have to imagine how much worse it would have done with Uncharted 4 in there as well.