It makes some sense as Microsoft unveiled and pushed the new Tomb Raider hard, despite how the sales story turned out. But these kind of deals always work better with new IPs rather than existing franchises, especially when that series is more popular on other platforms. Add in how the Xbox One version of Tomb Raider ran at half the resolution and frame rate as its PS4 counterpart and alienating that (bigger) demographic starts to make less and less sense. I suppose they forgot what happened with Titanfall, which is ironically the point in itself - no one talks about that game anymore. If Respawn can't thrive on a next-gen Xbox community it's hard to imagine how Crystal Dynamics can.

The most bizarre part of this story is that they're positioning this game to go head to head with Uncharted 4, which is being helmed by the lead designers behind The Last of Us and Uncharted 2. I really would not be going for that kind of matchup if I were them.