UK charts: Slow start for Tomb Raider as Spider-Man reigns supreme

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hiccupthehuman said:

I don't think it's an exclusivity issue, as majority of sales were on Ps4. If the exclusivity had pissed off Ps4 owners, then wouldn"t a higher proportion of the sales come from Xbox? And why wouldn't they have boycotted Rise instead? Are Ps4 owners that petty over a deal from 3 years ago?

Personally, I'm just tired of the Tomb Raider franchise at this point. Narratively, I was pretty underwhelmed by the second game, which felt pretty much like a repeat of the first 2013 game. Reviews of the finale seem to indicate the story isn't the main seller, and that Lara is pretty unlikeable and crazy in the third one too, and I just can't invest myself in a single-player story when the main character is unlikeable.

It's not a boycott. More then missed their chance. If it released on ps4 holiday 2015 it would have sold gangbusters. Ps4 owners were super thirsty for this type of game  especially with uncharted delayed to May 2016. Instead we bought umcharted in huge numbers summer 2016 and then come the tomb raider release later in October we were no longer nearly as thirsty she interest had severely died down. 

 

Yes it outsold the xbox version anyway but with the ps4 user base so much bigger and it being more tomb raider biased that's not a surprise. But it definitely lost a ton of sales. And remember it launch at 40$ on ps4 so they lost a ton of revenue from those who would go on to buy it antwwy. They should have had huge sales holiday 2015 on ps4 and at  $60. Bad mistake that EA made with titanfall. Let's hope next gen publishers see sense.