Tomb Raider 2015 Timed? Exclusive To Xbox

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I am confused as to how Microsoft can publish a game from a developer that is a subsidiary of Square-Enix. Deals like this happened with the likes of Splinter Cell, yes, but Ubisoft published Conviction and Blacklist. Tomb Raider, on the other hand, we can't even find Square-Enix anywhere. Maybe SE, unsatisfied with the commercial performance of the first game, somehow sold the franchise or the studio to Microsoft? I don't know, but this seems a little bigger than expected.
 
I am confused as to how Microsoft can publish a game from a developer that is a subsidiary of Square-Enix. Deals like this happened with the likes of Splinter Cell, yes, but Ubisoft published Conviction and Blacklist. Tomb Raider, on the other hand, we can't even find Square-Enix anywhere. Maybe SE, unsatisfied with the commercial performance of the first game, somehow sold the franchise or the studio to Microsoft? I don't know, but this seems a little bigger than expected.

Sounds stupid, so you are most likely right.
Have to say I found it a little strange that MS was the publisher too.
 
This is pretty huge. Tomb Raider is a pretty big frenchize. Cant believe that the first nextgen Lara Croft is for Xbox One Only!!

That is pretty significant.

I kind of want to log back into Gaf to witness the outrage and meltdowns!
Epic tears and salt to go with my favorite bowl of morning cereal.
 
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You get money from MS and you release it on PS4 6 months later. Everybody wins.

I doubt its that easy. If it was like that there would be no exclusive games for sony or ms.

Ps4 users just have to cross their fingers and see if they will ever see sexy Lara again :) if the sales are good Microsoft could buy the rights for few more years :)
 
I doubt its that easy. If it was like that there would be no exclusive games for sony or ms.

Ps4 users just have to cross their fingers and see if they will ever see sexy Lara again :) if the sales are good Microsoft could buy the rights for few more years :)
I think people seem to keep forgetting that this screws PC gamer Tomb Raider fans also.
 
Sounds stupid, so you are most likely right.
Have to say I found it a little strange that MS was the publisher too.

And to think how SE was "unsatisfied" with the sales performance of TR when it sold 3.4 mil in the first week... Wait until Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris comes out and we might hear something.
 
And to think how SE was "unsatisfied" with the sales performance of TR when it sold 3.4 mil in the first week... Wait until Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris comes out and we might hear something.

I knows right. I have been bringing that up since the announcement. S-E be funny, how I love to laugh at them.
 
I am confused as to how Microsoft can publish a game from a developer that is a subsidiary of Square-Enix. Deals like this happened with the likes of Splinter Cell, yes, but Ubisoft published Conviction and Blacklist. Tomb Raider, on the other hand, we can't even find Square-Enix anywhere. Maybe SE, unsatisfied with the commercial performance of the first game, somehow sold the franchise or the studio to Microsoft? I don't know, but this seems a little bigger than expected.

It seems to me it the same deal as with Dead Rising 3. Microsoft was listed as the co-publisher of that title. Tomb Raider is an expensive game to make without the gigantic sales Square-Enix was looking for.
 
It seems to me it the same deal as with Dead Rising 3. Microsoft was listed as the co-publisher of that title. Tomb Raider is an expensive game to make without the gigantic sales Square-Enix was looking for.

Oh yeah. That happened with Dead Rising 3. But if that's the case...

Things get even more weird... they updated to no publisher now. Seems like it's going to self-publish.

http://news.xbox.com/2014/08/gamescom-xbox-one-gamescom-press-release

...then why did they bother to fix that? I don't know, one thing is sure, the deal must be pretty complex.
 
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It's probably a timed a exclusive.They way everything is worded coming 2015, exclusively to Xbox One, makes it sound like it will be PC and PS4 in 2016 sometime.
 
They're going indie.

Sounds like timed exclusive. I don't know MS would stress 2015 like that in their conference otherwise.
I read it as exclusive, and coming in 2015.
 
I remember when I was a Saturn owner that learnt Tomb Raider 2 was SONY only.......I know that salted pain the SDF have.......oh and XBOX has it's Uncharted now for holiday season 2015!
 
I read it as exclusive, and coming in 2015.

Any time I hear someone stress dates like that I feel the date is important. Otherwise, it's just straight up exclusive. I suppose we'll find out.
 
This is good for Microsoft and the Xbox One, but bad for gaming.

Whether it's Destiny or Watch Dogs or Assassins Creed: Black Flag or Titanfall or now Tomb Raider, draining your first party budget/resources to buy up exclusive content or games that would otherwise be multiplatform does nothing but hurts gamers who only own one console and also leads to less original first party content due to less money that Microsoft/Sony now have to work with.

Sony and Microsoft really need to stop doing this crap. The only people that should be happy about this Destiny and Tomb Raider exclusivity are the PS and Xbox fanboys (because they get to brag about a corporation). Everybody else loses. Fanboys lose too, but they are too dumb to recognize it.
 
It's MS so people are pissed. I didn't see anyone be this pissed when Souls developer made Bloodbourne exclusive to Sony Playstation 4.

Big deal. It's just business. It just pisses me off more when MS does something like this it gets hated. But if Sony does it gets all the praise in the world and everyone acts like Sony just saved the world.
 
The butthurt from this will be amusing as will any from Sony announcements. There was a lot of butthurt over Destiny and it isnt even ps4 exclusive
 
It's MS so people are pissed. I didn't see anyone be this pissed when Souls developer made Bloodbourne exclusive to Sony Playstation 4.

Big deal. It's just business. It just pisses me off more when MS does something like this it gets hated. But if Sony does it gets all the praise in the world and everyone acts like Sony just saved the world.

I think it has to do more with it going from multiplatform to exclusive. BB is a new IP. If you're a Tomb Raider fan and chose a PS4 last holiday, I think you were assuming Rise would come to PS4. I don't see why you wouldn't think that.
 
I think it has to do more with it going from multiplatform to exclusive. BB is a new IP. If you're a Tomb Raider fan and chose a PS4 last holiday, I think you were assuming Rise would come to PS4. I don't see what you wouldn't think that.
Halo was multiplatform that went exclusive. Those on PC couldn't continue the Halo saga on PC.
 
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