Will Rise of the Tomb Raider be a commercial flop this fall?

[The Fury]

tokilamockingbrd said:

The Fury said:

It might explain why they ended the CoD deal. They went for Tomb Raider instead, a much more 'exclusive' deal and more worth money wise, in terms of CoD they have advertising deal plus DLC not an entire game.

Tomb Raider (2013) and its DE sold a whopping 2.2 million (lifetime) on the XB1 and 360 combined. CoD sell 25 million + on all systems each year. I would argue that Marketing with timed exclusive content is more valueable on a massive franchise like CoD than TR.

Even with MS pushing the hell out of TR I cant see it selling more than 3.5 million on the Xbox family. Oh course it might be bundled to all hell so we may never know what it actually sold.

Yes, but it wasn't a game deal, only early DLC and advertising. Did the money paid make it worth while? Not everyone buys DLC. EDIT: You know what? It probably was. Even $5 of each copy of the 10million on Xbox is stupid loads of money.

I can't see it selling more than 1.5million (still as decent amount but it's limited due to platform). With the competition around it, the loss of PC and PS sales, SquEnix will be saying "It didn't sell as well as we expected." in January.