This Week In Sales: Everything Sold Badly
By Ishaan . May 15, 2013 . 1:00pmTypically, sales across the board—including both hardware and software—drop the week after a major holiday like Golden Week. That’s exactly what happened last week.
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Typically, sales across the board—including both hardware and software—drop the week after a major holiday like Golden Week. That’s exactly what happened last week.
Tomb Raider is on discount sale on Steam until May 6th. The game is available for 50% off.
Last week, Capcom released Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen in Japan. The game debuted at the #2 spot on the top-20 software sales chart.
However, not even two major game launches could prevent a 10% decline in industry sales as compared to March of last year.
Square Enix is giving Tomb Raider a bigger push than the other Eidos titles and held a Tomb Raider fan art contest. What’s more interesting about the contest is seeing the take Japanese fans gave a Western video game icon.
Square Enix are incurring an extraordinary loss in an “effort to sort out items not achieving expected revenue levels, through scrapping those items and terminating production”.
Despite strong sales, all three games have failed to sell as well as Square Enix hoped they would.
Square Enix Europe have filed a trademark for something titled Lara Croft Reflections in the U.S., Siliconera has discovered.
Tomb Raider starts out with trouble right off the bat with an intense shipwreck scene. The next thing you know, Lara is hanging upside down in a cave full of skulls and eerily lit candles.
Tomb Raider sales appear to be going well so far.
Crystal Dynamics’ creative director, Noah Hughes, shares how the new Tomb Raider balances story and gameplay, and how the studio designed around both.
Crystal Dynamics creative director, Noah Hughes, discusses the character of Lara Croft and how Tomb Raider’s new Lara will be different from the old.
Square Enix have shared a new trailer for Tomb Raider, that shows off the game’s combat aspect.
A new video for the Tomb Raider reboot shows Lara making her way down a mountain in an attempt to reach a captured friend.