Monthly Archives: April 2015
From Failure to Record-Breaker: Tomb Raider Racks Up Franchise Record 8.5 Million Copies Sold
I want you to flashback to March 2013. I know it seems like forever ago. I didn’t have any grey hair then so it’s longer for me.
In an investor call at the end of the month, Square Enix effectively called the Tomb Raider reboot that had been out for all of three weeks a failure. They said that they had expected the game to ship between five and six million copies and only it moved 3.4 million. Square Enix made it sound like the Tomb Raider franchise was dead on re-arrival.
Over the following 24 months, Tomb Raider and the current-gen (PS4 and XB1) Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition sold another 5.1 million copies to bring the total units sold to a franchise record of 8.5 million copies sold. They’re touting the success of the Tomb Raider reboot in the run up to this fall’s release of The Rise of the Tomb Raider (a timed exclusive on Xbox One and Xbox 360).
So what happened for Square Enix to change their tune?
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The State of et geekera
So this post has been months coming and probably desperately needed since March when et geekera was last updated.
I meant to write a big State of the Union post for January 1st but I had other things to do like holiday time with the family, travel for my day job (I don’t get paid for et geekera despite whatever adds WordPress puts up), playing games and summarizing news. That meant that the State of et geekera address got pushed back but I thought it was a good way to bring the blog back from temporary hiatus.
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