Fallout 4 and Rise of the Tomb Raider are to be released on the very same day, November 10, in the US (Rise of the Tomb is launching November 13 in Europe). That means some pretty series competition for Lara Croft and her latest adventure, but the marketing manager for Xbox, Aaron Greenberg, said that he isn't worried in a podcast and that they really didn't have an option for the date:
"The challenge with Tomb Raider is if you go a week later you're against Star Wars Battlefront, if you go a week earlier you'll be against Call of Duty Black Ops 3 and if you go two weeks earlier you're against Halo. And then you go late and then you're like well, the consumer doesn't have any money left to buy the game so there wasn't a better scenario for us except that was the week it was not going head to head against Call of Duty or Star Wars Battlefront. We felt like the Fallout audience-they are not direct competitors per se, but you are right, it's two big, big titles launching at the same time and we hope people will buy both."
Microsoft is convinced that Rise of the Tomb Raider will do well, since it's a good game, with Greenberg saying: "And once you know then would you rather launch against Call of Duty, Star Wars or Fallout? So you just got to launch and stick with the date and feel confident that the game still stand up and we believe it will. It's a fantastic title."
Gamereactor had the chance to play the game last month. Our impressions can be found here.
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