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

[DonFerrari]

Kerotan said:

TheGamer_1995 said:
So you’re telling me that Spidey sold more than 116k retail copies in its second week?
Holy spiderweb

That's the real megaton here. Beat God of wars first week with it's second week. That's truly MEGATON news. 

Also second week of Spiderman is more than doubling (could as well say almost tripling) combined sales of Shadow first week.

CosmicSex said:

DonFerrari said:

Talk about bloodbath (SpiderMan second week really smoke UC4 and GoW).

And X1 version selling half of it's previous entry on the same system even having higher userbase put to rest that the justification for the gap between it and PS4 is due to the consoles owned, the game simply did bad and unfortunately worse than that on X1.

I think you have a point about it doing bad.  I mean lets not even look at the PS4 first.  What you are looking at is a very steep drop from 42k to 19k FW from Rise to Shadow.  Thats massive.

On a side note, look at the PS4 numbers and assume that the game still did terrible.  This show that Tomb Raider clearly has more fans on PS4.  Why is this important?   Because it means that Rise's FW would have been a heck of a lot higher if it had of released as multiplat from the start.   

On the side of a side note, Crystal was quoted as saying that they were not worried about Spiderman.  I honestly don't think that the game would have sold much better without Spiderman so yeah...

Yes Tomb Raider (and the genre) have more fans on PS4, and certainly Rise would sell much better if launched on PS4 at the same time.

I got no hate for Crystal and didn't boycott any of the 3 Tomb Raider, but for me it became a more budget purchase than day one since the time of the original trilogy. I like the game but not crazy about it to put 60 USD upfront.

Well perhaps sales would be the same without Spider-man, but we can't be sure.