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

[Bolivar]

You'll still get plenty of real 3rd party exclusives going forward, just not from Microsoft. Sony and Nintendo both fund and assist with the development of games like Journey, Bayonetta 2, and Bloodborne, whereas Microsoft largely allowed their internal development teams to shrink last generation as they moved on to pursue Kinect (and this generation with TV). They just don't have the manpower to do anything except pay third parties to stop developing the already-ongoing multiplatform versions of their games.

That's what the Tomb Raider backlash was about and a big reason why so many 360 owners have switched over to PS4.

[Uchu]

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.

Always makes me laugh when they announce things like this at press conferences and everybody cheers, when at the same time i'm sitting in my computer chair thinking "Why are you so happy about this...?".