There has been a lot of questions surrounding whether or not Rise of the Tomb Raider has been a financial success for both Microsoft and Square Enix. After all, it didn’t chart on the NPD, Microsoft hasn’t released specific numbers regarding sales, and it was sandwiched between Call of Duty, Fallout 4, Halo 5, and Star Wars: Battlefront. Thankfully, Aaron Greenberg has some answers for us!
“It launched in a very crowded window, but it has done well,” he said. “A lot of people bought both Fallout 4 and Tomb Raider. At the same time we know a lot of people may have bought Tomb Raider and wait on Fallout or bought Fallout and waited on Tomb Raider.”
Greenberg continued and assured people that the game will continue to sell throughout the holidays and into next year.
“They didn’t buy one of these titles and there’s still a lot of great titles, Halo 5, Star Wars Battlefront, Call of Duty, Fallout 4… There are so many great games in such a short window, that we think that people will continue to buy these titles through holiday and into next year.”
Aaron Greenberg also states the game was received incredibly well on a critical level and that Microsoft is proud to showcase the title on their platform.
“I think first you look at reviews that were really really strong… The game is an incredibly high quality game, really fun to play, challenging, I think one of the most beautiful game I’ve ever seen on the Xbox One,” he said. “From that standpoint, it’s really clear that delivered a masterpiece, and so we’re just excited to be able to have that title exclusively this holiday, and I think being able to offer that as part of our greatest games lineup is a great thing for our fans.”
Back in October, Greenberg appeared on the Kinda Funny Gamescast and told the interviewers that there was no safe place to put the action-adventure title. In October, you had Halo 5 and Assassins Creed: Syndicate and as I mentioned before, November had Fallout 4, Call of Duty, and Star Wars: Battlefront. By December, people are out of money from buying all these games and shopping for Christmas gifts. There was no true safe way about it so they made the bold decision of sticking the game in the middle of November.
Source: GameSpot
Cade is a games journalist, Gaming Writer at ComicBook.com. They contributed 108 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, and Xbox news: served as Editor-in-Chief at GameZone before joining ComicBook.com.