Square Enix shipment expectations for Tomb Raider,Sleeping Dogs and Hitman:Absolution.

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A203D said:

TrevDaRev said:

A203D said:
End of generation, to be expected, reboots are not going to be successful at the end of a console cycle.

Tomb Raider has been discounted already because it seems they over shipped the game, which is awesome, I picked up the special edition at about £38.00.

The special edition with the little Lara figure?

Nah, I just got the special edition with the DLC and the art book. I'm never really interested in the figurines, plus I don't have much space to display stuff like that in my room.

The edition your talking about, the collections eiditon is about £55.00 for the Xbox version, and about £90 for the PS3 version. I'm guessing the PS3 version of the game has had higher demand than the Xbox version. Both standard editions of the game are at £27, which is insane for a triple A game 1 week after launch. Sqaure Enix must have over estimated demand for the game.

Tomb Raider 2 sold like 6-7 mil copies, I just think their releasing these games too late in the console cycle now. Square Enix were probabily expecting Uncharted 2/3 sales, but it dosen't work like that I'm afraid.

According to VGchartz, Tomb Raider has sold 710K and 630K on PS3 and 360 respectively. In total, that's actually slightly higher than Uncharted 2 at the same point in time with no holiday season boost, and that's not including digital downloads or PC sales.

SE really have been stupid in their estimates.