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greenmedic88 on 23 July 2015
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Faelco said:
greenmedic88 said:

It's probably not going to make the kind of sales that would justify a year's worth of lost sales on the PS4 to Crystal Dynamics, but the game still would have been competing with Uncharted 4, which would be no comparison at all to the typical Playstation consumer.

I would be surprised if that wasn't a factor with the decision to make TR a one year XBO exclusive.

Plus, figure the exclusive deal was very likely made before it became apparent that the PS4 would become the platform of choice by a landslide. 

Still, TR fills a different niche genre on the XBO, and the franchise has regained some clout with the successful reboot, so I don't think it's going to tank on the XBO. There will be XBO consumers who want to play it first on their console. 

The previous Tomb Raider sold something like 70% on PS4 though. TR audience is on Playstation consoles, that's a fact. This audience has no reason to buy a Xbox One now. Same thing for anyone owning a PC : enjoy the lots of Holiday games you have (Fallout, Star Wars, AC, CoD...), and when the calendar is empty again early 2016, you will have a better and cheaper version of the game.

 

Some fans will buy it on Xbox One, yes, so it will not tank that hard, but it will still be a failure IMO

It's interesting because the original Tomb Raider was more of a Playstation franchise even though it was ported to other platforms.

That more or less changed when Legend and Anniversary debuted on the XB360 as (at the time) exclusives. I actually bought an XB360 in 2007 in part to play those games even though the PS3 was already my platform of choice. 

But when Uncharted was released in fall 2007, suddenly Tomb Raider looked very dated from a design standpoint and by U2, Uncharted became the definitive Playstation franchise. Tomb Raider, on the other hand, was seeing old ports on the PS3.

Regardless, because of the way the PS4 has unexpectedly run away with the larger market segment, I think it is pretty safe to say that TR will probably not hit the type of sales SE was expecting when they made the exclusive deal. It certainly won't move any XBOs for MS.