Well, like I said, I don't think the world needs to be particularly "big." I just don't want the A to B outside the tombs to be only through a narrow path.

Brilliant game. Glad it made money. Cant wait for TR2.

What the hell?

25% yearly is considered a damn good return on investment and equity both. I'm not sure you know what you are talking about. Unless I'm thinking a different thing and a different timespan, which I consider unlikely, since you mentioned RoI yourself.

In a way, anything breaking even,  above inflation and national interest, can be considered a good investment.

If the market worked solely on multiples every company would have to be Apple at the bare minimum to sustain these standards. Not to mention GDP would be doubling in the span of a few dozen months... China would look like a small fry next to that.

P.S. while I acknowledge there are some investments who return on the multiples, they are extremely rare. If one could reasonably predict which exactly are those, there would be dozens of Rockfellers by now.

Those 6 million copies include the 1 million + copies they gave away for free in the recent 360 holiday bundle plus a lot of the other copies where probably bought at deep discount prices that is the reason its barely profitable. 

Hollywood movies have mocies that end up costing shit tons and when it backfires they don't come out bitching at the consumers for not buying or seeing their movie like the gaming industry does.  They They don't start posting stats about how many lost sales they supposedly had due to piracy, ect.  

They take responsiblity and fire who needs to be fired, cancels sequels, ect.  Look at movie like John Carter.  I don't recal Disney compmlaining to us consumers or coming out with a statement like "if you don't buy this movie we wont' make anymore movies" or some bullshit that gaming devs say.   No they canceled John Carter 2.  And moved on to other franchises.  They took a risk with JOhn Carter and it backfired.  They likely won't be as quick to make risks again.  They still will use big budgets on other movies lilke Avengers 2 and Pirates 5.  But less likely to spend 100's of millions on a new franchise.

Oh and lets not forget that Tomb Raider is probably one of the best selling in its franchise history.  So tell me, where did the budgeting come from.  What genius thought, hey lets spend "X" amount of money on this game and in order to be a success it needs to sell double the amount the game has EVER sold in the history of that games beings.  It's retarded.  The person who made that decisions or person, should all be fired and sent back to elementary school to learn how to count.

Glad that the reboot became profitable. Hopefully now that they already have a working engine and plenty of assets, future Tome Raider games will be cheaper to make.

If they cut out half of the fire fights, I would agree with you. Hopefully, they do more to distance the next TR from the "Uncharted Clone" moniker. And to be honest, I'm just glad Lara doesn't control like a big boobed tank anymore.

Just finished it on PC. Thought it was a pretty average adventure game.

I think you missed the point. The developments costs were out of control.

With that said, 3rd parties get revenue from the manufacturer if their game is bundled. They dont give it away out of kindness for the other company. xD

You can say that all you want but Uncharted brought Tomb Raider back into the dance. There were plenty of changes even though Uncharted obviously took from Tomb Raider, Resident Evil and Killswitch.