Tomb Raider (X360) VS Rise of the Tomb Raider (XOne) - This is why launch dates can be misleading.

[Mr Puggsly]

-Ack!- said:

Exactly.

I'm not taking anything away from ROTTR, just explaining why for example your statement that ROTTR is selling at the same pace as TR (X360) is misleading.

And one other thing: it is ROTTR on XONE VS TR2013 on X360, I'm not taking into account other version sales because that's not the point. Also your claims that digital is now significantly more popular than 2,5 years ago is questionable (Steam is now how old? 12 years? PSN almost 10 years and Xbox Live even more.) but a topic for a different discussion.

The point is: that we will see a sudden rise in favor of TR2013 because of the holiday season bumb while ROTTR won't because it used up that advantage already.

The whole reason I'm comparing those cumulative sales with these titles on these platforms is because if you only look at the numbers and what each title had sold at this time, it would seem that ROTTR on XONE would have identical sales all the time compared to TR2013. 

Anyways thanks for the inspiration for this topic.

Again, you're neglecting digital sales are more relevant now on consoles then just a few years ago. As I stated before, TR2013 didn't launch digitally on the 360. It came months later. $60 games are now big numbers digitally and all are launching on day one. It possible RotTR sold a couple hundred thousand units digitally when you consider more popular games like Halo 5 and Uncharted 4 may have sold over a million digitally.

Simply for comparision sake you should have noted crossplat sales of RotTR are way above TR2013 on 360 alone. Worth noting given both of those versions launched the same day.