Tomb Raider sold 11M * PC outsold console #PirateRace

Dirty PC pirates pirated the game so much so it only sold 5M copies on PC, practically outselling every console original Tomb Raider had been released on: PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PS4 and Xbox One.

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/tomb-raider-sold-11-million-copies-almost-half-coming-pc-rottr-shifts-7-million-units/

In an interview with GamesIndustry, Square Enix revealed that Tomb Raider has sold 11 million copies worldwide so far. And while the publisher did not unveil any platform details, SteamSpy’s data reveals that almost half of them are coming from the PC.

Yeah I think I bought it for $5

Glad I contribute when I purchase Tomb Raider on PC back in 2015 when it was on Steam sale.

2 years later ? I got it for 60 bucks at launch day. It was a popular game. There was a very big hype thread run by the mod AdobeArtist if I remember well. Good old days. Any way the game was 5 bucks on PSN as well and I believe it had been released on PSN Plus too. The game became dirty cheap on every platform.

No, apparently December 2013

When it's always on sale for $5-10, or in a Humble Bundle, it's not hard to see why.

You bought it for 5 bucks 8 month later ? Liar. It would not go so low on steam sale even by PC standards. 50% off, like 30 bucks ? Perhaps. 5 bucks the same year - no way. Make a pic of your steam purchase history of it.

It was not particularly expensive on xbox 360 and ps3 either. And those consoles had what ? 160M install base combined ?

Lol, that's a bit harsh

I think it was actually $10 but I only paid $5 Nvm it was $5, and actually earned me a $5 dollar credit for later use

Tomb Raider is 80% off on Autumn Steam sale now. Only $4 bucks. (At the time of this post)

I bought it on PC because it be the best

@ivangrozny:

I bought it for $60 on 360 then again but Definitive Edition for $15 on Xbox One.

It was $5 when I got it.

Came with a Square Enix $15 bundle for 3 games on Amazon.

Pretty sure I got it on Steam sale few years back...still need to finish it though. :P

That's because it has been discounted (5-7.5 USD/EUR/GBP) on Steam a hundred times by now so a lot of people got it just because why not. Looking at Steam Achievments, you can see that ~40% of the owners never even played the game

It's only been on sale since forever. Hell, I picked it up, but didn't play it because it was so dirt cheap.

But yay.

Console gamers buy pre-owned games after the first year of sales so the developers end up no seeing a penny, while PC gamer's after 1 or 2 years can get it for £10 or less on Steam or GMG. In the UK stores like CEX have far more customers inside them on a daily basis than Game, due to their buy prices and lower priced pre-owned games.

I just got Batman Arkham Knight for £5 on steam.

If they got rid of pre-owned games by locking a disk to a account then we would see much higher numbers on console.

You can get most new games day one for almost 50% on PC on sites like kinguin, cdkeys, etc.

Shame 11M copies wasn't enough for square-enix

lol

Before: "PC doesnt have cheaper games argument any more because console has better sales."

After game sells more on PC than all consoles combined: "Yeah but people bought it for $5".

Apparently units sold during sales dont count for consoles /rolleyes. It looks like "PC has cheaper games" argument has been given the ok again.

And I bet Square Enix will still screw over PC gamers and try to make the next Tomb Raider as console focused as possible.

Worst game of all time sold over 10 millions. Amazing.

tomb raider and rise of TR represent everything wrong about gaming today. apart from hand holding they couldnot even make combat good. and stealth was a joke.

Embarrassing.

Apparently I helped with that; I dont remember buying it but it's there in my library probably from a square bundle or something like that.

Yep and it's why SE went to MS for help on Rise of the Tomb Raider and we all know how they turn out in the end lol.

For $3,99 on most Steam sales... no sh*t sherlock. Those are a lot of units sold but, I mean, how much profit can it turn when sold at that price?

If you show me the revenue ratio between consoles and PC, then you would have a case

Like this doesn't happen on console, with packins etc. oh buy a ps4 now and get tomb raider and this and that game for free.

It's a sale and it's money. what profit they make on any sale nobody ever knows.

It just proofs there is a good playerbase for tomb raider still on PC and that they should cater towards it with better price points or other solutions.

I think a good solution would be something like a free to play model in there future games. As that's where pc gaming mostly is these days.

I also got it for 3.99, IIRC. I think it might have been two Black Fridays ago? Maybe 3? It dropped to almost free in very little time, and I had to at least try it. I liked it... I would have preferred an OG TR experience. As an Uncharted experience, I'd rank it as having a little better gameplay and much worse story delivery than UC4 (my favorite of the series/the only one I really liked)

*edit* here we go - $5 on BF 2015

I think I bought it when it had around 90% off.

$5 here too. March 29 of 2014.

Got it on launch, it wa ssome collectors edition with a figurine, for PC. Haven't finished it yet though

@ArchoNils2:

TR13 was like, 4 hours long, tops! How could you NOT have finished it by now?!

Also localize and market the game for Chinese PC gamers.

Also we have no idea how many copies were sold at what specific prices. But if we assumed all 5 million were sold at $5 (even though it very likely didn't) than it would have made $25 million and $17.5 million after steam cuts. I'm pretty sure at least the first 1-3 million copies sold were between $20-$60 with probably most being $20 or $30. Assuming 3 million were sold for $20 than it would have made $60 million and $42 million after Steam cuts.

I would love to see how many people actually played it after purchasing the game on steam sales. I stopped buying things on steam sales because my back log was just getting full of cheap games I purchased that I never even played. It was getting a little crazy, but I couldn't pass up on the deals I was getting. haha!

Oh it is? I have 3.4 hours on it, so I guess I'm close to the end then? xD

Who here has a decent PC and still doesn't have TR 2013? What the hell is wrong with you?

@ArchoNils2: no, it's like 15 hours long unless you just barrel through to the end without any effort to interact naturally with the game. I'm pretty sure there is a solid hour worth of cutscenes alone.

I bought it for $10 at some point. Wish I hadn't though since it's not that good.

For 100% completion you're looking at 20 to 30 hours

To be fair, these guys actually put some work into the PC ports of their games. Rise of the Tomb Raider was a pretty good port, and they bolstered the graphics specifically for it on release.

Unlike the Arkham Knight, which runs amazing now, but was initially awful.

@GarGx1: yeah you're right, it definitely took me over 20 hours, thinking back. It's been a while. At any rate, it's definitely not a 4 hour game

This is nothing new, sales means nothing already for ages. They can heavily influence sale numbers if they want too. The real thing that counts is how much they actually made with the game and how much it actually costs them. And how many projects they failed to reach that one succesfull one.

I can fail 5 projects that cost me 100m each, and the 1 project that makes me 800m with 200m cost, still isn't going to help me out on any level. I just know where to focus on next.

Then you can see how healthy that company really is, and how they will move forwards.

It's the same as with mmo's that announce we have 4 million unique accounts that logged in the last month !.

For a game that has a monthly fee that sounds mighty impressive, yet they forgot to mention they had 3 weeks before they pushed the final numbers on paper, a free to play week for everybody to experience the game for totally free.

Hell even i made a account but stopped playing after a day or so. So yea, i paid nothing and still get counted into there success.

Same as with shipped versus sold etc etc.

If PC sales actually involve sales of any kind that brought in any level of money, then the conclusion we can have is that PC segment is still interested in tomb raider and they could focus on that. But if it brought in any money that sustains the company at any decent level, who knows.

This is how it sold more on PC, but it is killing off devs by being cheap.

Playstation gamers of course bought it at the full $59.99 price tag, and in the process are responsible for saving gaming.

As a Playstation Gamer i don't think I've bought any of my games full price

In this day and age units sold is mostly useless. Hell, even companies that are going under will sometimes give games for free to "boost their numbers" while looking for buyers.

That's because you are also a PC gamer. Valve has poisoned the well you drink from and you now controlled by the Steam deity.

• Main Story

  11½ Hours

• Main + Extras

  15½ Hours

• Completionist

  20½ Hours

• All Styles

  14½ Hours

I don't think you finished it either?

@xantufrog: @PCgameruk: @GarGx1: Thank you all for clarifying it. It's my fault to belive something Nepu posted xD I remember liking the game, no idea why I never finished it. Probably because something released I was interested more into and lost my way back to it.

@ArchoNils2: I couldn't tell you how many times I've moved on from a game before I finished it, even if I was kind of enjoying it.