Too many games + there are more fans on other systems + everyone knows it will come to their devices next year, maybe with some DLC bundled with it.

Bone one year exclusivity ruined this fantastic game

Rotr was always going to perform badly because most of the series fanbase just isn't on the platform it was released on.

I know XBOX og will be third, but to be fair it was the first and established the brand (It could only go up from zero).  This time MS had a brand that was established and almost beat Playstation, and they ended up destroying any advantages they had.

Not a good enough excuse. Ps1 was going up against Nintendo and Sega who were well established world wide and look how that turned out. Exclusivity on the wrong platform from a dev who forgot who made them an insane amount of money (star ocean 2nd story, ff7,8,9,10,11,12, VP2,ETC), and continually dividing their fanbase (certain kh games on ninty, others on sony?!?). They make moves which remind me of Sega (Valkyria chronicles anyone?).

To a lesser degree, it probably didn't help that almost all of the preview footage was meet with pure venom. I spent way more time than I ever have defending the game. This is one of those perfect storms where everything from into place and killed Lara.

We need Sam from "Life is Strange" to go back in time and fix this mess!

It's strange that the game itself needed to be defended. I thought for the most part everyone was expecting a good game to be produced and it was just the exclusivity decision that people were hating on. In some cases it wasn't even the exclusivity decision that got the shit but rather the way MS/SE/CD handled the PR around the exclusivity deal. I know all the most heated arguments on VGC about RoTR were around whether or not the exclusivity was permanent or timed. Not whether the game would be good or rubbish.

I thought that too. But every time something was released people said "Look at her animation!", " Look at that pop up ", " The enemy AI is horrible! ", " The graphics are average! ", " That guy just disappeared ", " She keeps using the same stealth kill animation "

It was like this game was being held to a higher standard than any other game. Almost no positive buzz.  And if I did say something positive, I was met with the equivalent of "So you're going to see that one guy glitch out 7 minutes into this 10 minute video and pretend this game doesn't suck?"

I predicted high 80s or a low 90s Metacritic score and got attacked for it. It's all here in black and white on Vgchartz. No idea why it was so hated. But in the end, àll of the hate was for nothing because the game was never a threat to anyone. It didn't sell. :(

*edit* and pretty much every complaint was absent from the final game. My only gripe is that it's too serious and the story is rather bland. It looks and plays fantastically.