Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs and Hitman: Absolution declared “commercial failures” by Square Enix

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KingdomHeartsFan said:

Zekkyou said:
You have to wonder how much they spending on these... Like bananaking21 said, If Naughty Dog can pull something like TLOU off and consider 3.4 million "exceeding expectations", you would think SE could pull off these games for a lot less.

From what I've heard Tomb Raider didn't cost that much to make, but SE went way overboard with the advertising for the game, if they didn't spend to much on advertising then I think it would have been a sucess. 

Advertising?   I don't recal seeing any advertising for Tomb Raider.

There must have been some since you said so, but if they spent so much why isn't it thrown down my face like a new Call of Duty or Halo?  Really those are the only games I ever see advertised?  I never see any adverts during primetime tv.