Rob5VGC said:
"The challenge with Tomb Raider is if you go a week later you’re against Star Wars Battlefront, if you go a week earlier you’ll be against Call of Duty Black Ops 3 and if you go two weeks earlier you’re against Halo. And then you go late and then you’re like well, the consumer doesn’t have any money left to buy the game so there wasn’t a better scenario for us except that was the week it was not going head to head against Call of Duty or Star Wars Battlefront. We felt like the Fallout audience-they are not direct competitors per se, but you are right, it’s two big, big titles launching at the same time and we hope people will buy both.” -Aaron Greenberg |
You know the problem isn't the week. It's the period. If they released in September everyone who's going to buy games in November has gaming money then. The sales will be much better and the good word of mouth will give it legs. The word spreads and then lots of people pink it up on BF and during the holiday on sale for around $40.
And if you're Microsoft it's your main bundle until November. Instead they just drop it amongst the sales giants and after people have already bought games in September and October and it's just forgotten about. They did the worst thing possible. (both square and MS).
