The end of October and most of November are going going to be a busy month for gamers. Halo 5: Guardians is making its official release on the Xbox One today, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is releasing on November 6 (across all platforms), both Fallout 4 and Rise of the Tomb Raider release on November 10 and Star Wars Battlefront is releasing on November 17, 2015.
That's $300 in gaming — if you're getting the standard version of each game.
With so Fallout 4 and Rise of the Tomb Raider sharing a release date, you can't help but feel bad for Tomb Raider. All of the attention has been so focused on Fallout 4, that Tomb Raider has fallen to the wayside.
Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg doesn't feel bad about the conditions for Tomb Raider's release, in fact, he would rather see Tomb Raider release against Fallout 4 than any of the other options.
"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 said in an interview with Kinda Funny Games (via DualShockers). "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."
Sure, none of the games are in the same genre, but that doesn't mean it will be any easier for the game to have a stellar launch. If they went any later, gamers might be out of money and any earlier the game could be lost in the ruckus.
"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," he explained. "We felt like the Fallout audience and 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."
Rise of the Tomb Raider might have had a better chance launching against Black Ops 3, seeing as November 10 will see the world of gaming become eclipsed by Fallout 4.
