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Angelv577 on 15 November 2015
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
Angelv577 said:

If you say so.  All I know is that halo didnt do much for xb1.  Not only it sold less than 1m but only moved 303k xb1 including bundle.  Xb1 beat ps4 by a miserable 30k.  TR wont do much.  It barely made into the top 20 on amazon in its released and it has fallen to 55 in the hourly. Sure amazon isnt accurate for software but the hype for it is barely there due to having to compete against multiplayer games.  If you think a console needs only exclusive to move system, you havent learned anything from this gen,  Most third parties deal for sony have done a lot for the console and COD and battlefront bundle wont be the exception.  Xb1 might take november but wont be as big as last year.

Edit: it has SF5 on february

The multiplat audience (as I said before) jumped ship back to Sony. This is why Sony is enjoying good upfront sales, similarly to how Sony used to enjoy them last gen. Tomb Raider will sell well enough, but it was crazy for Crystal Dynamics to launch the game next to Fallout 4 which is going to wipe the holiday slate clean for November. Tomb Raider will have to rely on legs much like Halo. Microsoft will have all of those games available in bundles for Sony but Sony cant touch the fourth quarter exclusives Microsoft has (Well only one game and that exclusivity is for a year). 

I don't think anyone argued in favor of sony having better exclusives for the holidays.  Thing is, if MS still want to win US, they have 2 months left to cut the gap significantly because october barely did something.  When I said this month is going to be interesting is because in addition to COD and battlefront bundle, there will be a 299 ps4 for BF which means sony will be more agressive than last year making it much harder for MS to make a comeback.

Regarding to tomb raider, the timing was horrible.  I hope the development budget was much smaller than the first tomb raider or they gonna have a problem making a profit on xb1.  SE was disappointed with the first one even though it sold more than 4m on last gen consoles.  it made a profit after the reboot released on xb1 and ps4.