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.
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”.
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.
