Lmao, this one wins comment of the year. The Uncharted series has been up against bigger competition in the past, and look how well it performed. Against the bugfest that is every overrated Bethesda game ever, Sony nor ND weren't worried. If they need to polish and test to clean up bugs a bit, I highly consider it the most likely scenario. Back on topic, SE doesn't learn from their mistakes. Their main audience is on Sony and Nintendo platforms.

"The challenge with Tomb Raider is if you go a week later you’re against Star Wars Battlefront, if you go a week earlier you’ll be against Call of Duty Black Ops 3 and if you go two weeks earlier you’re against Halo. And then you go late and then you’re like well, the consumer doesn’t have any money left to buy the game so there wasn’t a better scenario for us except that was the week it was not going head to head against Call of Duty or Star Wars Battlefront. We felt like the Fallout audience-they are not direct competitors per se, but you are right, it’s two big, big titles launching at the same time and we hope people will buy both.”

-Aaron Greenberg

http://egmr.net/2015/10/microsoft-chose-to-pit-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-against-fallout-4-instead-of-star-wars/

well we dont know how much microsoft paid, nor how much square and microsoft expected to sell.

but yes, it would appear unless MS paid a crazy amount, that square got less than they bargained for, and if MS did pay a huge amount, then they got the raw end of the deal. reguardless, it appears it was bad all around, but without dollar tags, and sales expectations we cant know for sure.

but it would seem this damaged the brand, even though the game is seemingly great.

i for one thinks it looks awesome, but wont buy an xbox for it, and wont buy it new when it comes to PS4, i will buy used. because i want to play this great game, but do not wish to reward square

He has a point but in my opinion the moment Uncharted delayed they should have delayed Tomb Raider, the 'people have no money' argument doesn't wash once you get to Feb/March, and the original intent was for TR to go up against UC4. If they had done that I think it would have been a lot more successful, but obviously it would have excluded it from the 'greatest holiday line-up in Xbox history' shtick that MS based their holiday marketing around. 

End of the day, I worry that this has permanently damaged the TR franchise reboot. Look at most big franchises, it takes a few games to get it established. TR2013 was a great game, ROTR seems like an even better game, but if few people play it, then how much excitement/loyalty can SE count on for the sequel?

Christmas sales mobs exist you know?

Pretty much hit the nail on the head.  A Tomb Raider game not coming to Playstation is laughable!  (I mean it is, but you know what I mean).

Don't worry, it will launch 1 year from now on PS4 with DLC on disc and sell 3x more on Playstation - and SE will never be this dumb again.

Why is it so laughable that it launches first on another system?

You're ignoring one important thing, what would motivate SE to go exclusive with Tomb Raider? The only logical answer is MS paid a ton of money. Going exclusive isn't worthwhile if they could potentially lose any money. Frankly, it doesn't even make sense. Rise of the Tomb Raider didn't need MS to make money, so MS must have paid a ton of money just to have it exclusively for a year.

Selling 1.25 million units wouldn't cover $50 million though. $50 million in revenue is not profit. Doesn't matter, we can assume GTAIV DLC generated $50 million eventually.

Ouch..... Real bad decision from SE.

Why is everybody giving so much weight to FO4 ?

It sold most on steam so it has nothing to do with the abysmal performance of Tomb Raider