An official from software giant Microsoft on Thursday said that the "Rise of the Tomb Raider" can squarely match with "Fallout 4." According to Aaron Greenberg, both video games are "not direct competitors per se." Greenberg claims that the "Rise of the Tomb Raider," as one of the most anticipated games for Xbox One, will have a fair share of audiences, a report from Gamespot said.
"And then you go late and then you're like well, 'Does the consumer have money left to buy the game?' So there wasn't a better scenario for us except that was the week it wasn't going head-to-head against Call of Duty or Star Wars Battlefront. We felt like the Fallout audience and the game, while both fantastic games, they're not direct competitors per se. But it's two big, big titles launching at the same time and we hope people will buy both," Greenberg said, according to the report.
"This means that there isn't much time in between for publishers to capitalize on if they want to release games in time for the holiday. In fact on the 10th of November, Bethesda's highly-anticipated Fallout 4 will be released, which is also the same time that the Xbox exclusive Rise of the Tomb Raider will released," Ubergizmo noted.
"The challenge is that you have to look at the production schedule. You want to make sure that you don't rush the game so that it's not done or not of high quality," Greenberg told Kinda Funny Games as quoted in the report.
"That is always the number one priority. 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're against Call of Duty Black Ops III; you go two weeks earlier you're against Halo 5," he explained.
However, Gamezone claims that "Tomb Raider" will be fallen to the wayside since the attention will be focused on "Fallout 4."