Polygon are the onion of the gaming industry. Absolutely disgusting site

SE may make more money this way than by releasing on ps/pc platforms at the same time? Sure it can, it all depends on how much money they received from MS. More sales than TR? Basically impossible.
Funny that Spencer gives an interview saying they want to win against Sony by being the best not by Sony being worst/dead and then talk about the several exclusives that were bought making Sony "worst" and Xbox "better". And then say they didn't bought the title they just have it on their platforms for some time and then the IP owner decides were he will release later. Yes, I'm certain DR3, Ryse, TF and all others will release on ps4 because MS never put a clause forbidding release on Sony platform. The Publisher decides to put on PC but not Ps4 because a simple port to a twice the size is irrelevant and they wouldn't break even.

Who is the raving XB1 fanboy that's trying to spam my dumb blog with how I'm "spinning facts" to make the polygon article somehow less valid? I don't have to "spin" anything to make that article look like garbage. It's objectively bad.

I don't think it's right to compare Polygon to the Onion. They're the National Enquirer of game journalism.

The article is complete shit and so is most of the crap from their site, but Ken Buchera isn't stupid. He's playing the raving fanboys like a violin to get more views for that ad revenue. Look at how his tweets preemptively poke the more easily agitated PS4 fans with sticks. It's scummy as f*ck, but he does the job well.

Well if you figure out you can try to report the user.

It's not too bad, it's kinda funny that someone would make an account to make posts with the mentality of a twelve year old. I could just IP ban them, and while I think IP bans are pretty useless for someone capable, I don't really think they're smart enough to get around it.

Did polygon just give up entirely on things like integrity and reliability, or were they always trying to be the TMZ on the gaming world? I know why they do it, it's really profitable, but it's kinda pathetic.

Hahaha! Good one, sir!

i can see it working out for the best. itll help it sell on xbox better since ms will market it like an exclusive then depending on when it comes out for the other systems itll probably sell pretty well. then when the 3rd one comes the xbox and ps verison will be closer together in sales compared to the first one

I agree with poly here actually...

Marketing cost a lot, and MS will be taking care of that, as well as playing them a royalty fee for holding it back...

If the game reviews well, when they finaly make a PS4/PS3 edition, it will sell well, and will probabaly come with some added content to add incentive for people to buy.  Also, by making this deal, they effectivly can release it after UC4 comes out, and that will help sales as well as they are basically the same type of game, and UC4 would seriously hurt it's PS4 sales.

1. Please tell me how many copies Rise of a Tomb Raider will sell in early/mid 2016 when it launches on PS4
2. Please tell me how many copies Rise of a Tomb Raider will sell in late 2015 launching against Uncharted 4
3. If 2 is greater than 1, please tell me what kickbacks or outright cash SE received for this deal.
4. If 1 is greater than 2, then you lose.

Moral of the story... who knows, who cares. I haven't read the Polygon article but SE made a great deal for themselves.

Square will possibly see less overall profit but, weighed against that, less initial advertising expenditure and more guaranteed money up-front. Basically, they took the safer bet. Microsoft's contributions can be applied immediately to the bottom line without a lengthy wait on the investment.

Of course, this is the less consumer friendly approach, so I hope the final numbers point toward this being the wrong path.