Hey guys, VGC just put a new article on the First Week of RoTR and we can compare the launch of the game versions.

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/266447/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-20-year-celebration-sells-an-estimated-384k-units-first-week-at-retail-on-ps4/#comment_527817

Important info

PS4 : 384k

X1: 242k

X360: 69k

PC: 23k

So even though it's certain that releasing 1 year latter hurt PS4 version legs, it still were capable of outselling X1,X360 and PC combined (300M userbase?).

Its not really fair....

i didn't buy it at launch. It wasn't available on steam, no steam means the PC version really doesn't count as a "pc release" especially concidering all the horror on the windows 10 store....

Most people didn't want to support it on PC because of that decision, so the install base on PC was maybe... 5% of what it normally is (at best).

We all know the Xbox One version didn't sell super well at the time, the xbox one doesn't sell that well compared to the PS4 in generall and it was quite a hard time to launch with Fallout4 and stuff.

Its still really nice to see the PS4 version doing well this year, but it makes sense, the only big sony exclusive is the last gaurdian, which is coming later, and there are just the usual big games and remakes for the PS4 right now, thats a much better time to launch :D

Also its one of the best games for people who are buying a PS4 pro since it has many options for the new console.

Good job OP . I enjoy this thread :D

Well, VGC wouldn't count Steam sales anyway, so the meager sales are retail only.

Against X1 we have the bigger Fallout4 release, against PS4 besides it being 1 year older and PS guys already having the superior UC4 it also isn't holiday yet, so I don't think we can give all the leeway only to X1 here.

I tried to cover the bases =] thanks for the compliment.

I'm gonna buy it again!

wtf? ps4 version outsold xb1? Isnt that a slap in the face to.... square, ms and crystal?

Square is probably just happy its selling units.

I think it ll have much better legs too on the PS4, than the XB1 had.

good enough for a year old game, will get it to play the 60fps mode on PS4 Pro

It will depend on how much they received for the timed exclusive and how many sells they lose because of it. In the end it's probably worse for MS that expend the money and launched on a bad time and got low sales and even didn't impact much their HW sales... worse yet is that it was probably bought to be the UC competitor, but this one got delayed.

Oh, that is rich. Too bad SFV won't be able to at least do the same (release on another console and get a "second wind") These time/previous multiplat exclusive deals still make my head hurt but I'm no a businessman so it's beyond me whether MS made the right decision or not.