Rise of Tomb Raider XBox1 = sales dud of the year?

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Carl2291 said:
It will have good legs, because its already having positive word of mouth with gamers.

However, the real reason for it "under-performing" is the absolutely fucking idiotic decision to release it when they did. Right after the 1-2-3 combo of Assassin's Creed, Syndicate, Halo 5 and Black Ops 3, they launched it during the same Week as Fallout 4. People only have so much money to spend on videogames, and the Tomb Raider franchise is a long, long way behind the likes of Halo, Call of Duty, Fallout, Need for Speed, Assassin's Creed and Star Wars.

Tomb Raider simply isnt a priority buy for the mass market. This title would be far, far more suited to the summer Months where it avoids the mega releases.

Very much agreed! However, you said better suited for the Summer months, so if they had the game pinned for around this time's release should they have delayed it for the Summer? Alternatively, I feel they could have gone the same route Bloodborne did and release it Q1, in this case between the end of January till March. 

Was definitely a dumb ass move to release it on F4 week. 

Little off topic, but perhaps that's why XCX is releasing in NA first week of Decemeber... maybe they should have done something like that. Oh well, maybe they'll learn.