In the modern AAA gaming space, titles have a VERY narrow timeframe in which to get exposure and hype going in order to translate that to sales and legs. The fact that SO few games achieve this (GTA, Minecraft, Mario Kart, etc) really bodes poorly for TR overall.
Outside of bundling and severe discounts, I think this TR is just about DOA. There are simply too many gigantic games coming out this month for it to have a chance at anything more than negligible sales, and the story will be similar next fall.
It doesn't help that the marketing for this is terrible. I have seen some ads, but it's very dull looking CG with no personality or anything to distinguish it as a 'must-have' title that you want to look up more about. Which is a shame as it's actually a well reviewed game.
Late ports basically always fail, and there's no reason to believe that it won't be the same story here barring a miracle.
Total sales numbers will probably look okayish thanks to probable 'free with any Xbox sale' specials and $5 PC versions after it becomes heavily discounted, but $-wise, it may go down as one of the most spectacular failures in recent memory.
But to recap, the average gaming public has a very short attention span and the minute hype for TR is already buried under FO4, COD, and Star Wars, and it will only get more forgotten as time goes on.
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