(Rumour) Rise of the Tomb Raider sells less than 200k in November (U.S.)

[Eddie_Raja]

AsGryffynn said:

 

Eddie_Raja said:

I didn't even own a PS1, but when I think of that era - I always see Tomb Raider as synonomous with Playstation (And I know many others do too).

Furthermore:

-Even Last gen Tomb Raider sold ~40% more copies on PS3 than 360.

-The Definitive Edition sold over twice as many copies on PS4 as it did on X1.

And then they do this?!    No this is insane money hatting done to guard against Uncharted, and it cost SE a lot of money...

It didn't cost them a lot. That was all paid for by MS. It cost MS a lot they should've used on their own IP though...

Well at the end of the day this is just conjecture from both of our ends.   You assume MS paid for enough, but honestly I think this is what happened: MS agreed to pay for all of the marketing, and in return SE could push back the PS4 release so they didn't have to compete with Uncharted 4.  But now TR sold terribly on X1 and the PS4 launch is a little closer than it was going to be.