I thought ti was about selling consoles?How is the exclusive deal a dud? The point of the exclusivity is to sell less copies but have the cost subsidized by a company.
But the IP is on it's last legs.
They planned for it to sell considerably less obviously. Do you somehow think they didn't know this when they made the deal?Will they? We don't know details of the deal, I imagine they paid for marketing and whatever the estimated loss in PS4/PC sales would be.
Doubt MS will pay for XB1 bombing, no?
Yeah, I doubt the XB1 version selling like shit was part of the plan.
Both the exclusivity and the launch date have combined to completely fucked this game over. Let's hope the blame isn't taken out on the developers, and that Square and MS have the brainpower to figure out that they did it themselves.
Bonus:
Code:[Week 5, 2014] TOMB RAIDER: DEFINITIVE EDITION (SQUARE ENIX EUROPE) - 27,500 / NEW PlayStation 4 (69%) - 19,000 Xbox One (31%) - 8,500
Sure, but let's be honest most people only have so much money for the holiday season, so some may ended up with spending everything on Ass and Blops 3... I think it's always problematic to launch a game between those huge AAA titles which could all slowly eat away your launch day casual audience for many reasons. Fallout was just the nail in the coffin.Ass Creed probably wouldn't have been an issue at least seeing how much it sold on XB1, but Fallout did close to 3 times the amount Tomb Raider did on XBox 1 alone. It needed to be away from that.
But the IP is on it's last legs.
This was always my qualm from the announcement of the exclusivity.
It's possibly destroyed everything they built up with TR2013.
Shame.
They planned for it to sell considerably less obviously. Do you somehow think they didn't know this when they made the deal?
Who the hell thought it was a good idea to release at the same time as Fallout 4?
And then they shut down amazing studios like Crystal Dynamics.
Fucking hell this industry.
I hope nothing happens to CD and they get to work on more awesome Tomb Raider games.
Microsoft does these things to diversify their roster and change their perception as a shooter only box, not that they think these games will be other worldly in sales.I thought ti was about selling consoles?
You know that their last game sold something like 8.5 million copies, right?
You know that their last game sold something like 8.5 million copies, right?
"It's obvious that trying to add more puzzle and exploration elements didn't resonate with the public so now we have decided that Lara will give up tomb raiding and join the military"
To add to the discussion, this little bit of info from Bruno is also interesting
Really sucks for CD =/.
Was the TR date announced before the Fallout date or the other way around?
Doesn't seem like people in the UK liked it enough to buy the sequel or an Xbone to play it on.
The exclusivity was always going to damage this games sales potential.
Less than 56,700k going by Bruno's new estimates in the PAL thread...
But good Lord those are absolutely terrible numbers.
I'm sure Square would take it all back even for the $$$ they received because this could create long term brand damage for TR.
As for MS they mishandled this entire thing. They've failed to boost XB1 numbers and sell a decent number of copies of the game. All they have is the greatest line up in history etc to boast about.
Business wise, the deal was a straight dud.
But the IP is on it's last legs.
MSFT will pay/buy any missing copies anyway. SE has nothing to worry.
Gutted for the devs. Let's hope this picks up again next year with a cross-platform "GOTY-type" edition.
Must be the Fallout 4 effect that is largely responsible.
No one wants their product to bomb, but they were obviously aware that sales would be considerably less. If Tomb Raider 3 comes out and they do the deal again no one should be surprised.See my point about the money covering ps4 and PC. The game bombing on Xbox is of course not part of anyone's plan, why would it?
It didn't launch on the same day as Fallout 4 in Europe, it was 3 days later.
I'm sure Square made enough money with the deal to compensate any fiasco. Microsoft wasted a lot of money though.
No one wants their product to bomb, but they were obviously aware that sales would be considerably less. If Tomb Raider 3 comes out and they do the deal again no one should be surprised.
Sure, but let's be honest most people only have so much money for the holiday season, so some may ended up with spending everything on Ass and Blops 3... I think it's always problematic to launch a game between those huge AAA titles which could all slowly eat away your launch day casual audience for many reasons. Fallout was just the nail in the coffin.