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

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CosmicSex said:

axumblade said:
25% up and on the same week as one of Playstations biggest exclusives and they are still saying it under performed? Give it some time before automatically dismissing it. I'm sure it'll end up selling around the same as Rise of the Tomb Raider.

It underperformed and we know by looking at Xbox One.  The reason why people say this is by comparing 36k to 19k.  By looking at XO numbers we can see a huge decline.  This was marketed on Xbox One so it is very telling.  There is no way around this.  The sales on Xbox has gone up in the 3 years since Rise so a 48% drop on Xbox alone tells you what you need to know.  Spiderman wasn't on Xbox so how do you explain the massive decline on that platform?  36k to 19k...  what freaking happened here?  Clearly, for it to not underperform, Xbox One numbers should have been much higher.  

For more proof look at Rise total debut XO/PS4 in UK

XO:36k 11/15

PS4:33k 10/16

Total 69k

 

So the total Debut of Rise excluding Xbox 360 was 69k

The total Debut of Shadow was 52k

 

That is a decline of 25% (excluding 360 which makes 30% decline)

 

It underperformed.

Let me reiterate that Rise came out on a Tuesday, while Shadow came out on a Friday. Five days of tracking versus Two. That's a disadvantage that can't be ignored.

Let's at least see how it's second week goes before we make prematurely make that judgement