Sony PS3 leads Xbox 360: Tomb Raider Underworld
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The latest game from Eidos’ Tomb Raider: Underworld is seeing some strange sales figures, and the PlayStation 3 version is shifting more copies than the Xbox 360 version. 51 percent of all the games sold were on the Sony PlayStation 3, with just 34 percent being sold on the Xbox 360.
The reaming sales were for PC, Nintendo Wii and DS versions. Earlier in the year Eidos announced that the Xbox 360 version of Tomb Raider: Underworld will have two exclusive digital episodes, this amounts to at least 6 hours more game play than the other formats.
Tomb Raider: Underworld sales are not as good at the developer had hoped, as the game has only managed to shift 6,700 more units than last year’s Tomb Raider: Anniversary. You would have thought that the Xbox 360 version would have sold more units of the game, as it has that extra gameplay. We do not want to read too much into the sales figures, maybe Xbox 360 gamers are still enjoying their Gears of War 2 game.
First Look at Tomb Raider Underworld 2008: Sony PS3 & Xbox 360
Tomb Raider Underworld Demo on Xbox 360
Tomb Raider: Underworld, review for Xbox 360
Tomb Raider Underworld: PS3 vs Xbox 360 720p Video
I hope those sales continue, it will be a real two-fingered salute to greedy DLC policies! If I owned an Xbox I’d be pretty disgusted that another level of the game will be released for $10 just days after you’ve paid $60 for the full game!
It’s MS that’s feeding these DLC policies and if a second title they’ve paid out on (the first being GTAIV which for $50M could be considered a marketing flop for the 360) fails to reap rewards they may think twice before laying out cash to get bits cut out of the game and sold separately to their users only.
People like Criterion with their superb FREE DLC for Burnout Paradise are the types of people that deserve to succeed.
At the end of the day 360 fanboys are singing Microsoft’s praises for laying out a fortune (a fortune that could have been spent on new in-house games) to bring them an $80 version of Tomb Raider Underworld (two DLC’s approx $10 each), and a $100 version of GTAIV (two DLC’s at $20 per reports). That’s hardly something I would be thankful of personally…
Besides both GTA IV and Tomb Raider Underworld are traditional PlayStation franchises so there’ll be a lot of people staying loyal to the brand (and the controller they’re used to playing them on). It is the reason MS pay of DLC for games like this to try and turn the PlayStation crowd, who knows maybe the gap would have been larger had the DLC not been available.
Contray to popular belief PS3 owners aren’t exactly short on choice this Christmas…
Something I noticed @ my local Gamestop was that the employee’s were laughing at a kid who was in there preordering it for the PS3. I was picking up W@W for PS3, and was going to preorder Tomb Raider as well, but after that. I decided not to. Not because I couldnt’ face the ridicule, I can dish it out too, but Im not giving a business my money that allows these tween punks to act they way they do. Anythime I come to preorder or pick up a game for my PS3, they ALWAYS try to give me the 360 version. I am now giving my money to Amazon. Gamestop lost ANOTHER customer because of their employee’s.
Well I guess the PS3 needs some good news, but lets not forget Gow2 was released, Far Cry 2 and Fallout 3 which did very well on the 360 so 360 owners do not need another game right now.
Yep, I agree with everyone and you “PS3Owner”, 360 owners had a huge selection in new games (don’t forget Fable2) and DLC this Christmas, and now exclusive DLC for TRU, do you guys think the M$ DLC policies are only for a year such as their “only on xbox” payoffs (e.g. BioShock) that turned up on PS3 12 months later? let’s hope this content does come around for PS3 owners in time…..