So by "moneyhatted" you mean Eidos published the game on PS and Windows, and dropped development on the Saturn platform that was no longer being supported by Sega. Last I checked the term "moneyhatting" refers to a console maker paying for exclusivity. There is no evidence of this.

On top of that, Tomb Raider IV was back on the dreamcast. I guess Sony's check bounced?

How was Tomb Raider 2 exclusive? It came out on PS1 and PC on release and on Mac a couple months after the fact.

1 million still isn't that much for a AAA title in over two months. Look at the Uncharted remasters and Halo 5. They are both over 3 million now! And that's even the weakest selling Halo game in the franchise so far and Uncharted is, well, some remasters.

Dated 9/18/97. The deal was likely in the works long before this, and the Saturn wasn't completely dead at the time the deal was negotiated. 

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sony+Computer+Entertainment+America+Signs+Exclusive+Deal+with+Eidos...-a019760956

The deal was specific to NA and it expired in 00/01. That is why TR II/III never left the PS1, and the Dreamcast version of TR IV launched over a year after the PS1 version in NA while they launched on the same day in Japan and Europe. 

Fair enough. My bad. TR 2 and 3 probably would have been on the Dreamcast if not for this deal, but then again, Sega might not have recouped its development costs based on poor sales of the dreamcast.

Still, the Saturn had sold about 6.5 million by the end of 1996, and only sold another 2 million units in the next 3 years. I'd argue the Saturn was dead at that by the end of 1997, selling next to nothing after that point, but I'll admit it's debatable.

Or any game that came out during November since they all dropped super fast. Deals galore right? 

Well, I was referring to only the XONE, but in regards to the original comment, if the 81M PS3 sold 3 million in 5 weeks, how is it a fair comparison to say the 20M XONE sold bad by selling only one third of that number in the same time frame? And if it was only half the units sold, and XONE RotTR sold only 500,000 units, then we have one sixth of PS3 sales. With over 4 times those consoles on the market, it's obvious the PS3 outsells the XONE with ease... and I am not delving on how last gen had higher physical attach rates... or how these all contributed to expectations way higher than the current ones...

This...

1 million is worse than I thought. Tomb Raider was big in Europe. The fact that these number more than likely includes console bundles, Xbox One and Xbox 360 is quite telling. I just hope Eidos can rebound.

It quite endeering how positive Sony is being regarding Tomb Raider.

@That_Kid_Chris Don't worry Tomb Raider will do just fine next year when it's released on PS4 next year ;)

— Paul Rustchynsky (@Rushy33) November 16, 2015

1 million for huge marketed flagship titles like tomb raider, forza, halo and gears during the holiday season is kinda underwhelming.

Seems like first party games isn't such a big deal these days with such low sales but huge sales for big third party games. Sony seems to be aware of this as they've been pushing third party for most of the gen as opposed to a big push for first party.

Makes sense as those sell way more as a rule, save for uncharted, God of war and gran turismo which usually sell millions per installment are sony's biggest ips. 

Now Tomb Raider was a huge marketed flagship? A while ago i read MS didn't even bother marketing it. Well anyway, over 1m for RotTR isn't underwhelming at all, it's ok sales so far. Most of us thought it did worse. Great news indeed 😊