Rise of the Tomb Raider timed Xbox exclusive for Holiday 2015 (No PS/PC, SE publish)

Mr.Batman said:
So this is another Titanfall scenario?

Game is exclusive to X1 and gaf embarrasses itself. Some time after release a long form article comes out mentioning the fact that the game wouldn't have been made unless Microsot stepped in and paid for development. Still tears and lots of denial.


That's my guess anyway.

If not, dirty move microsoft. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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You honestly think the sequel wasn't going to happen without MIcrosoft's help? This is the result of Mr. Hats O'Money.
 
Sho_Nuff82 said:
Dude, everyone can read your post history. You were never going to buy one.
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Perhaps SE is just doing the same thing as CAPCOM:

CAPCOM: DR3 for Xbox One, Deep Down for PS4
SE: TB for Xbox One, Sleeping Dog 2 for PS4
 
benny_a said:
I'm sure Geoff knows how to asks questions, based on hours of interviews he conducted.
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And yet, he didn't give an answer that gave us any more information than we already had, when there was a way to phrase the question such that a non-answer was very explicitly flagged up as one.

I was hoping for some insight beyond the official line. I just got the official line from the conference :-)
 
Natureboy99 said:
to skip PS4, a console selling 2-3 times as much as Xbox, not to mention PC, is a huge pile of money. That must have been one HUGE money hat.
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Roughly 3 million lost sales, average revenue lost per sale of $30... $90,000,000.

That's a crazy number, which is why I think a PS4 release sometime in 2016 is likely to happen.
 
I do wonder how much this money hat is.

But seeing as MS did this with Dead Rising 3, which eventually came to PC, I believe this is their strategy to get people to buy an Xbox One. They saw that exclusives were what made a console, realized their own first party studios aren't as big as their competition, and are attempting to use third party exclusives in known series to remedy that.

I for one, will wait to see if it comes to PC and wait for a price drop on Steam to ridiculous low prices if it does. Which is sad, I was hoping to get it for PS4.
 
BruiserBear said:
I'm just calling out people's selective outrage around here. It's very hip to hate the Xbox brand right now. It's pretty easy to see the usual suspects showing up in a thread like this to condemn this crime against humanity. Many of them would not be having the same reaction is this announcement was about PS4 exclusivity.


I'm a fan of great videogames. I really don't care how I end up getting to play them. I've said it many times here. In fact, in many ways I'd prefer it if every game was exclusive to one platform, because I tend to think exclusive games are often better experiences. When a development team can focus on making the best game they can on one platform, it always means good things for the end product.

I also know that triple A game development is getting really complicated these days, and we see it discussed here all the time. Studios close down, people get laid off, etc. It's tough to fund a massive game like Tomb Raider, and make it a profitable endeavor. So when I see something like this happen, I suspect there could be more to the story.

For many studios it's a fight for survival these days. I'm not the least big surprised to see them take some extra money when they can. I just see it as cool that another great Tomb Raider game is on the way. What platform I end up playing it on ultimately means little to me.
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Not everyone can afford multiple platforms. So it's good for you that you don't have to worry about what platform a game lands on. Must be nice. But MS is basically paying to make half the fan base go away (just so they can boost their own console sales). How do you not see this as...questionable?

SpecialAgentZ said:
You should care more about, you know, playing the games.
People nowadays are more into the companies and less about games.

Where are the gamers that play games?
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Isn't that what this is about? Denying players the access to PLAY a sequel to a franchise they've already started?
 
AyaisMUsikWhore said:
Because it's extremely exciting when a third party multiplatform game that has been that way for years becomes a 1st party exclusive? I guess the money that fans have spent over the years to make tomb raider a age old franchise should get in hippy circles and sing and dance praises right?

Like what?
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Oh I think it's stupid of them to do this, I think sales will be affected by this decision. I'm just poking fun at fanboys, that's all.
 
Higgins113 said:
The Sony Brand is finally over. Maybe next decade!

It's over, period. Sony lost their last ace, and that's the end of their PS4 hopes and dreams.

It's not hyperbole, it's not fanboy drivel. It is LITERALLY it for PS4. Sony has nothing left, nothing they can reveal today would fix the hole now created. There is no reason left for any one, hardcore or casual, to substantively invest in a PS4. Except if they want to play Bloodborne. Which will also come to XboxOne at some point.

The age of Sony is done.
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I thought there was going to be a joke somewhere there but sadly, I think you are serious.

Surely not?

You may have won the internet if you are serious.
 
I'm looking at it the other way around: SE looked at releasing TR2 against UC4 and got a lot more receptive to cutting a deal with MS. Whether it's a forever deal or a "we'll release it in June when UC4 has been out for 9 months", who knows, but they knew they'd get curbstomped going head to head with Naughty Dog.
 
StevieP said:
So why is blood borne exclusive?
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Because the franchise/IP belongs to Sony.

I'm not going to be salty over the fact that I'll never see Batman and Captain America in the same movie ever, because they have different owners. But Galactus never being allowed to be in MCU? FUCK YOU FOX.
 
I mean, if Microsoft Studios is publishing the game, they probably helped fund the development...


Dragonborn said:
Well they just made me decide not to buy an Xbox console. Maybe I'll pick one up used, for cheap, with used games but that's about as far as I'll go if at all.
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This is extremely shocking Dragonborn, you have been such a huge fan of Xbox in the past!
 
stupei said:
Well, Microsoft did publish the original Mass Effect.

So maybe we'll only have to wait five years for the game to release on PS4.
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They sold the rights to that game to EA, when they were well ahead in global console sales. They have no reason to do that now.
 
BigDug13 said:
Exclusive content is a bit different than exclusive game. And yes, there were XBO fans and plenty of them that were saying they were going to avoid Destiny due to the practice.
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Maybe I didn't read enough of the threads then. I am honestly surprised about how serious people are taking this. Since it's most likely only a month or so. I expected a bunch of, "I'll just wait for the Definitive Edition."
 
The wording says it all. Exclusive to Xbox holiday 2015. It makes perfect sense. They don't want to compete with uncharted head to head so they release on xbox. Xbox owners will buy it up while playstation owners buy uncharted. You release tomb raider on ps4 a few months later, say march 2016, and you get all your sales. Plus you hit holiday sales and dont compete directly with the exclusive most playstation fans are looking forward to most.
 
Jarmel said:
If Microsoft is publishing it, PS4 owners aren't getting this any time soon. Also it might mean Microsoft gets a bigger cut of the DLC and digital sales.

In which case, how much money did Microsoft cough up for this? Good god.
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Well, it's a new Xbox division so maybe that historical precedent doesn't apply? SE seems to be incompetent and MS is still shedding its scent of desperation. But if I'm wrong and they did pay all that money (to a publisher who viewed 7 millions copies as something other than a great success), why not just create a new first-party game interal-- oh, wait.
 
Curufinwe said:
Roughly 3 million lost sales, average revenue lost per sale of $30... $90,000,000.

That's a crazy number, which is why I think a PS4 release sometime in 2016 is likely to happen.
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such a silly and childish way to calculate. you don't know how much ms paid for this (either in development or keeping it exclusive)


you don't go around and multiply numbers and say they lost that
 
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