Why do a timed exclusive for Tomb Raider

[Imaginedvl]

bananaking21 said:

Imaginedvl said:

bananaking21 said:

well tell me then, how will being on a console that is being crushed in EU, will go no where in japan, and consantly being outsold by the compition in USA be good for the long term future of the franchise? 

please explain this to me. 

Nothing to explain to you. You said it was a "stupid" decision without haing any real knowledge about the deal and how much money it will bring to SE to actually work on the franchise in the future ro to make up for the lost sales on other platforms.

When they will come back on all platform (after the timed period or even with the next version), they will still sale it very well and make money out of it...
Or maybe you are forgetting about this? Or believe that the internet joke is going to "boycott" the game lol

This is just a random call and you have nothing to back your claim that's it.

but i do

Pos	Game	Platform	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1	Titanfall	XOne	2014	Shooter	Electronic Arts	1.41	0.54	0.00	0.11	2.06
2	Titanfall	X360	2014	Shooter	Electronic Arts	0.58	0.22	0.02	0.07	0.89
3	Titanfall	PC	2014	Shooter	Electronic Arts	0.13	0.13	0.00	0.04	0.31
Total	2.13	0.89	0.02	0.22	3.25

 

Pos	Game	Platform	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1	Watch Dogs	PS4	2014	Action	Ubisoft	1.05	0.98	0.09	0.31	2.43
2	Watch Dogs	PS3	2014	Action	Ubisoft	0.34	0.49	0.07	0.21	1.10
3	Watch Dogs	XOne	2014	Action	Ubisoft	0.65	0.33	0.00	0.06	1.03
4	Watch Dogs	X360	2014	Action	Ubisoft	0.48	0.27	0.00	0.07	0.83
5	Watch Dogs	PC	2014	Action	Ubisoft	0.06	0.09	0.00	0.03	0.18
6	iHackU: Feel the hacker in you - Inspired by Watch Dogs	iOS	N/A	Action	N/A	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
7	Watch Dogs	WiiU	2014	Action	Ubisoft	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total	2.58	2.16	0.16	0.67	5.57

 

TitanFall was hyped more, Titanfall had is in a more popular genre, titanfall was made by the makers of CoD, Titanfall scored higher on metacritic, titanfall released in a better time for sales, (march vs may), titanfall was given away FOR FREE with the majority of xb1's sold for months, and according to offical data by NPD and GFK, titanfall is pretty much spot on when it comes to sales. look at that strong precense in EU, sub 1m, give me a break.

.89m vs 2.16 million in EU. around 2.5:1 sales ratio

.22 million vs .67 million in rest of the world sales, over 3:1 sales ratio.

Watch dogs shipped 8 million, by end of Q2. how much did titanfall ship?

the difference is night and day when it comes to sales, and even though TF had the better reasons to sell more, but the major set back was exclusivity. now the presence of the game in EU and rest of the world is pitiful compared to the game potential. guess whats gonna happen to tomb raider? 

the most important part of the sales is during launch, and when TR launches just on XB1, they will lose shit loads of sales because of it, and thus hurt the long term of the franchise. its a simple concpet. 

The numbers you copy/pasted backs nothing and is irrelevant to the point. Most important part of the sales is at launch... Are you serious? Because when the game will be out on PS4 and/or PC this will not be a game launch on these platforms? What will it be?

Also, you are assuming:

- That people will not buy the game when it will come to another platform (or very little as say)
- That without any knowledge on what Microsoft gave to SE you seem to know FOR SURE that SE is not going to make the same amount of money at the end (if not more).
- That just because one episode of the game is not going to be out on all platforms (timed...), you assume people will not buy next iterrations and therefor the franchise is doomed :)

Give me a break lol

All this is just irrelevant to me as it is based on non-sense speculations/assumptions...