Is the crowded holiday season really a good excuse for the ROTR sales or a cop out?

[Eddie_Raja]

binary solo said:

Eddie_Raja said:

 

I think it is two things:

1) YES this holiday is insane with Fallout, Battlefront, and  bunch of other great games.  

2) Honestly I have to say: Who the F*ck cares about Tomb Raider?!  Their biggest market was on Playstation and they alienated them (Look it up).  It is insane that they thought this would do well on Tomb Raider's least profitable platform in its worst generation against so much conversation.

I'm guessing Xb one is going to quite easily outsell Xb og, as according to VGC it's only 7M away from that target. So depending on your preference Xb one will be the 2nd best or 2nd worst Xbox generation. I guess it all depends on which past gen console it ends up closest to in LTD sales.

I never felt alienated from TR, but then I was never an actual TR fan. I enjoyed the games, but it's never been one of my top franchises. I only got TR 2013 because it was free on PS+ last Feb. Enjoyed it enough to want to actually buy RoTR, so this is the only time I've actually felt alienated at all, but not because of the 1 year wait, but because of all the stupid spin that was going around trying to avoid admitting it's a timed exclusive without actually telling any lies.

I know XBOX og will be third, but to be fair it was the first and established the brand (It could only go up from zero).  This time MS had a brand that was established and almost beat Playstation, and they ended up destroying any advantages they had.