The Rise.... And Fall of the Tomb Raider (aka Everyone seen this coming)

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Lets discuss how badly this game flopped

Everyone here except the hardcore Xbox stans knew the exclusivity deal was HORRIBLE.

Let's revisit a few threads starting with he one announcing the deal.

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/next-tomb-raider-timed-exclusive-to-xbox-one.239649/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/microsoft-admits-tomb-raider-2-is-a-timed-exclusive.239985/



With a nice quote by yours truly


http://www.thecoli.com/threads/rise...-to-pc-in-early-2016-ps4-holiday-2016.339664/



Squeenix considered the last game a flop and it didn't break even until recently. The remaster of the last game remaster sold on the PS4 a 2:1 advantage over the Xbox.

Lara about to flop harder this holiday season :wow:

Drizzy Drake droppin this spring, going plat first week :wow:

Drizzy Drake Collection gonna do better #s than Tomb Raider :wow:

Microsofts bone headed marketing towards this game thought it was a good idea to not only price the bundle at $349 on Black Friday, but make it Best Buy exclusive. It proceeded to get destroyed by the $299 Uncharted Collection bundle (fukkin PS3 games brehs...)

Let's talk about the beyond stupid release date

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/is-r...ady-dead-before-it-even-gets-released.328884/

Why would they release it on the same day as FALLOUT 4??? :pachaha: thats just not good business....

Really not good business, that shyt got mollywhopped by Fallout 4. But in their defense, it was the only option. What they gonna do? Release it next to Call of Duty:heh: Battlefront?:heh: Halo 5? :heh:

Let's talk about the other misfires

1. Squeenix jumping the gun and announcing the PS4/PC release dates. Now you have a ton of people holding out until the probably "definitive" version releases in 2016

2. Naughty Dog pulling the rug from under them and delaying Uncharted 4. You can tell by Phil Spencers interviews that he wanted to position RoTR to battle Uncharted 4 for the Holidays and all the possible media coming from it. Then ND says "it ain't ready" and delays it causing MS to look stupid.

3. The head of Crystal Dynamics taking to the official Tomb Raider forums and pulling his best Pr move "Sqaure and Microsoft are happy with the deal :mjcry:, We don't discuss sales :mjcry:"

I barely take place in discussion these days besides NPD because I don't game much these days but this thread needed to be made.

@satam55 @Rekkapryde @Fatboi1

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All i gotta say is: I told you so......

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Why wait when you can play this now? I got a ps4 and an X1 (so no Stan shyt). I'm gonna enjoy the shyt outta this a year before y'all. That's a win to me :yeshrug:. How can you be happy waiting? I'm gonna double dip when the PC version arrives, but I couldn't wait to play it. Fallout 4 has most of my time, but I'm finishing this real soon.
 

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square can care less about sales. They got MS to pour a lot of resources into developing and marketing of this game(huge mistake on MS part) They probably not hurting financially on this game and they can recoup on the other platforms when they release
 

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Why wait when you can play this now? I got a ps4 and an X1 (so no Stan shyt). I'm gonna enjoy the shyt outta this a year before y'all. That's a win to me :yeshrug:. How can you be happy waiting? I'm gonna double dip when the PC version arrives, but I couldn't wait to play it. Fallout 4 has most of my time, but I'm finishing this real soon.

Fact remains ms tried to screw sony players over with that deal and square took the bait, now they gotta suffer for it... :yeshrug: FO4 is taking all of my time anyways...
 

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Why wait when you can play this now? I got a ps4 and an X1 (so no Stan shyt). I'm gonna enjoy the shyt outta this a year before y'all. That's a win to me :yeshrug:. How can you be happy waiting? I'm gonna double dip when the PC version arrives, but I couldn't wait to play it. Fallout 4 has most of my time, but I'm finishing this real soon.


my backlog :mjcry:
 

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Have sales figures been released yet? I didnt even know they had.


Only square knowa wether this was a success or not,depends on the amount ms gave them etc.

Releasing it on the same day as fallout 4 was indeed dumb though.
 
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