Tomb Raider Sells 1M Units in 48 Hours - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 March 2013 / 5,554 Views

Tomb Raider, which was released on March 5, managed to sell one million units in less than 48 hours. The news was announced by an administrator on the Eidos forums. This is the fastest selling Tomb Raider title to reach one million units sold.

"TR9 sales hits 1 million after < 48 hours!" read the thread title of the post.

The game nearly reached 250,000 pre-orders at retail in the US according to VGChartz. The Xbox 360 version of the game reached 136,873 pre-orders, while the PlayStation 3 version managed 107,112 pre-orders.

Tomb Raider is a reboot to the series and is currently available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The title was developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix.

11 Comments

nnodley (on 12 March 2013)

This game is great and is a worthy edition to the Tomb Raider series.

Squint_Eastwood (on 12 March 2013)

A lot of People wanted this to fail and it had some negative articles from some corners but its come through. After nearly every big game of late getting poor mediocre reviews this is a real breath of fresh air.

Azhraell (on 12 March 2013)

Wow, in my country is exhausted

withdreday (on 12 March 2013)

Maybe this will tell companies like Craplavision that video games CAN succeed having a female lead.

zuvuyeay (on 13 March 2013)

congrats,should do a million on each console

GameAnalyser (on 12 March 2013)

I'll be getting TR after I complete GOWA.

maxspeeds (on 12 March 2013)

Excellent game, Tress FX graphics are stunning.

Chark maxspeeds (on 12 March 2013)

It is great, but they could use some improvement in physics. Walking forward or left to right shouldn't move hair that much. Maybe a weight issue? Maybe if the game was made on only hardware that supported it it would turn out perfect, but PS4/Xbox3 isn't out yet.