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yvanjean said: It's doing better or similar to Dead Rising 3, Ryse: Son of rome, Forza 6 And Sunset Overdrive. If you look at Xbox One exclusive standards for previous sales it's overperforming or performing has expected not a sales dud has you call it. First week sales: Dead Rising 3 - 267K This game can easily maintain 75K-90k per week sales for the Holidays which would take it to 750k-900k copies sold. The fact that Microsoft foot the bills for marketing and production is actually good for this franchise. Lower sales wont hurt Microsoft and Square Enix makes a profit with less sales. |
Looking at this, it doesn't seem to be as big of a disaster as I would've thought before. All of the titles above FH2 (barring ROTR of course) have sold 1m+ so far, which adding to the fact that the last Tomb Raider game was fairly leggy on the 360, means that ROTR has a pretty good shot at selling at least 1m on the XBO.
Also, according to VGC, Tomb Raider on the 360 sold about 482k units in its FW. It then went on to sell 1.87m units LT, so its FW consisted of about 25% of its LT numbers. If we apply the same model to ROTR on the XBO, that would mean its LT numbers should be around 920k. Of course this isn't an exact predictor, but it's interesting nonetheless. And maybe it being exclusive for a year will help its legs more, since there isn't a competitor counterpart. Who knows.
But yeah, not great sales. Definitely not a wise move launching on the same day as Fallout 4. Not sure if I'd call it the sales dud of the year though. I have a few other games in mind that could be awarded that prize.
