Rise of Tomb Raider Xbox1 sales number falls hard in the 2nd week in US

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Arkaign said:

bunchanumbers said:

Arkaign said:

Seriously?

yup. These giant sales numbers you're talking about also went on systems that were around for many years and were pushing 150 million units. Not only that, the first month sales numbers while good, are still only a portion of the total sales in the end.

http://www.pcgamer.com/tomb-raider-reboot-has-sold-85-million-copies/

There is just no way that Rise Tomb Raider ends up selling units like the first one. There simply isn't enough units out there and it took years of basement sales before it got to profitability.

600kish first month is way below normal for TR franchise, even taking into account install base/only two platforms.

The month isn't over for Tomb Raider so we can't say for sure what its actual numbers are yet.

As for when TR price dropped there's this.

http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=138464

This shows that 4 months after launch, it was selling for bargin bin prices. There are plenty of other examples but this is one of the earlier ones. This alone shows that the SE had to do drastic measures to get sales and that a large chunk of those 8.5m sales aren't as good as they would like. I'm thinking that SE wanted to avoid this situation and took the Xbox money to alleviate the damage.