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teigaga on 12 August 2014
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wolfofthepack said:
teigaga said:
As much as I feel like this is especially bad practice, the game wont flop like some are saying (I think 2.5m in 2015) and it should sell quite a lot of Xbox Ones alongside Halo 5 next holiday.

They could have sold a lot more on PS4 though


u really think it will do 2.5m when on the xbox 360 with a much LARGER user bases didnt do those numbers ?

Yep! Cant directly comapre the two as the scenarios are completely different, but just a few things I took into consideration...

Larger user base doesnt equate to more active userbase. Check Xbox One vs 360 sales of Titanfall, Watchdogs, Theif etc. End of gen software sales are negatively effected by a saturated market and user fatigue. Also exclusives automatically recieve more attention of owners of that respective console in my experience, so new Tomb raider will recieve more attention on XO then Origins it did on 360. When its released in the same season as Halo it will benefit off that hype, I imagine a fair amount of people would probably pick it up as a secondary game (I know I would!), they are different enough to not cannabalise each others sales. The fact that its an exclusive means it will probably be heavily bundled which too will help.

I just think people are niave if they think all the casual Tomb Raider fans are automatically gonna pass up on this game simply because its exclusive to Xbox One. People think the masses have the same bias that we do on here, but they do not. Its the beginning of the gen, the vast majority of people have not yet upgraded to either system and stuff like this will be hugely influential. The masses will go to where the games they want are, history has proven this. So it will inevitably steal some of sales that would have otherwise been given to the PS4. Not neccessarily a ton, but enough to make a noticable difference.