Rise of the Tomb Raider is EXCLUSIVE to Xbox One (for a while)

[Ayen]

Just give me my PC release. That's the only way I'm going to be able to play this game within the next five or six years.

[Aulayna]

It's a timed deal.

http://kotaku.com/rise-of-the-tomb-r...ive-1620772963

[Ayen]

(both 360 and One)

Oh, I didn't think they'd still be releasing these on last gen by that point. Okay, I'm good.

[Rantz]

This sort of marketing tactic makes me lol. From the Kotaku comments...

Congrats, Microsoft and Square Enix! Hope the smurfton of negative PR and pissed off fans you just generated by the way you handled this "announcement" and "explanation to fans" was worth the 3-6 month exclusivity deal. Next time just take a leaf out of Sony's book and go with "first on Xbox" or "console debut on Xbox", and don't say "PC and PS4 gamers can play the older game instead!"

[fat_moogle]

Silver nailed it on the head.

So I guess this thread title can be changed now?!

[Shauna]

Sorted.

[fat_moogle]

Sorted.

Not quite, it's coming to 360 at the same time as One, so it's no longer just an Xbox One exclusive =p

This reveal was handled really badly.

[Shauna]

360, One, it's all MS.

[Vyk]

Just ugh. I have a 360. We played the original on 360. I might have been willing to support it on 360 eventually. But now it seems more prudent that if I ever support it, I should buy it on PS3 or 4 to help send that message that they're dumb. I feel bad for Crystal Dynamics. I get the impression that Square is treating them poorly in this regard. Always forced to churn out new Tomb Raiders, and then treating what they churn out so poorly. But I guess at least they still exist. Unlike the original developers

[Sephiroth]

I believe this as much as there is no sequel to Final Fantasy X-2. It is called marketing.

[Uchu]

Read the Eurogamer article last night about it being timed... my word, the amount of marketing BS that is going on is unreal.

[fat_moogle]

It's crazy how things can spiral on the Internet.
Still going to buy it when it eventually comes to PS4. Wonder how long the deal is for?

[Shauna]

It is a really sad state of affairs that the majority of people who read this news assumed the worst about the companies involved. There was not a single benefit of doubt given to either party. Not that they deserved it, but yeah.

Sad and telling of the state of the industry.

[Bolivar]

I rather think skepticism is a normal and useful component of a healthy consummerate.

Even if it wasn't, most reactions I read were under the (correct) impression that this deal had a duration. Although Microsoft execs initially tried to convince people otherwise:https://mobile.twitter.com/aarongree...01151179685889

[Ayen]

I had a conversation about timed exclusives the other day on Google Plus, and I don't think Microsoft is the only one guilty of this. To quote:

Now, thanks to middleware, you can easily port between, say the 360 and the PS3. There is no technical reason to only put it on one console. So MS and Sony now have to make up Timed Exclusives to force a 3rd party game on their console.

Gamers have figured out that Timed Exclusives are Timed, so they can just wait it out. So to sweeten the pot a little, Marketing throws some BS and tries to confuse everyone into thinking it will ONLY come out for the XBox and hopes you won't read the fine print.

Timed exclusives feel like a last ditch effort to make two similar platforms look better than the other.