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Forums - Sales - Rise of Tomb Raider XBox1 = sales dud of the year?

oniyide on 27 November 2015
ArchangelMadzz said:
Justagamer said:

Hypocrisy? Sony fans were downplaying tomb Raider from the onset. That's what that quote was from, responding to the downplay by Sony fans. Now, bananaguy comes out of nowhere and starts shit with stupid memes, and it's me that's moved to another user? Dafuq are you talking about? 

If you honestly don't see how much of a hyprocrite you're being then I think we should all just stop. Because it this point it's just becoming funny. 


not true, its ALWAYS been funny



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RJ_Sizzle on 27 November 2015

Well, haven't posted in this thread for a bit, I wonder how things are...

... oh.



bevochan on 28 November 2015
The_BlackHeart__ said:
They got scared of having to deal with Uncharted on PS4 and started running on the opposite direction, just to find an abyss called Fallout 4 that sucked %90 of the XB1 sales.

Call me crazy, but I believe Tomb Raider could have sold better on the WiiU.


Fallout 4 sold better than expected.  They probably didn't expect Fallout 4 to sell 5+ million in the 1st week.  Fallout 4 more than doubled the 1st week opening sales for Fallout 3 and New Vegas. 




bevochan on 28 November 2015
yvanjean said:
bevochan said:

Although VgChartz may not be accurate and doesn't include digital sales, Rise of Tomb Raider Xbox1 only sold 105k physical copies in the US whereas as Fallout PS4 sold 1.255 million physical copies (xbox1 1.1 million physical copies).  More than 90% less than Fallout 4 PS4.  It even sold less than Fallout 4 PC physical copies (who buys PC physical disc?).  

Rise of Tomb Raider may not get to 1 million global sales with holiday sales at the end of 2015.  

It's doing better or similar to Dead Rising 3, Ryse: Son of rome, Forza 6 And Sunset Overdrive. If you look at Xbox One exclusive standards for previous sales it's overperforming or performing has expected not a sales dud has you call it.

First week sales:

Dead Rising 3 - 267K
Ryse: Son of Rome - 247.8K
Rise of Tomb Raider - 230K (doesn't include bundle and digital sales)
Forza Horizon 2 - 227K
Sunset OVerdrive - 221.9K
Forza Motorsport 6 - 210.5K
Plant vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare - 91.1K

This game can easily maintain 75K-90k per week sales for the Holidays which would take it to 750k-900k copies sold. The fact that Microsoft foot the bills for marketing and production is actually good for this franchise. Lower sales wont hurt Microsoft and Square Enix makes a profit with less sales.


"Lower sales wont hurt Microsoft and Square Enix makes a profit with less sales."  What?!?  You're talking about percentage net profit (MS money + revenue - cost) over cost (because MS fronted the money).  But no, more sales brings more total profit because the revenue is going up.  This is almost one of the dumbest thing I've ever heard.  If square enix hypothetically sold 10 million copies in the 1st week, they would be rolling in money, MUCH MORE PROFIT.   Also, as a brand and a franchise, you want more copies to sell with every new game.  




Roronaa_chan on 28 November 2015

We only have VGC estimates (aside from UK numbers) for now. But yeah, it always was going to be that. Even without Fallout. 

Someone get Polygon on the horn..



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oniyide on 28 November 2015

the Street Fighter situation is much closer to the Bayonetta one, than the TR one. Anyone who is saying otherwise is lying or stupid



20pdemau on 28 November 2015

350k is not that bad, since the best selling game of the year also came out that day, it will probably sell over 2 million when it realeses in the other consoles



Angelv577 on 28 November 2015

If the purpose of the game was to have a system seller similar to uncharted then it failed pretty badly.



Tootylicious on 28 November 2015

It will probably get some more copies sold in the next weeks.
It was a stupid idea to let it compete with Fallout 4.
Also it was a stupid idea to make it a temporary Xbox exclusive.



kurasakiichimaru on 28 November 2015
Angelv577 said:
If the purpose of the game was to have a system seller similar to uncharted then it failed pretty badly.


Well it could probably outsell Uncharted Vita.