But you never mention what it will do for CD on Xbox one..... being a timed exclusive should increase the sales of that game on the Xbox One. Will take the pressure of having to out perform Uncharted 4. Sure the PS4 will suffer but boost the Xbox one sales and Microsoft paid part of CD Development costs.  

The only win would be getting a working and complete version half a year later, instead of the usual broken day 1 version.

I'm not in a hurry anyway. The reboot wasn't bad, wasn't tombraider either. The shooting got repetitive and the puzzles were too few, too easy and too far in between. It just turned into the usual collectathon. I hope Uncharted sticks to its roots and doesn't go with this hyrbid, bit of everything, master of none, model.

I was definitely blown away by Lords of the Fallen. One of the best games of the year. 

Its only a big deal because Microsoft moneyhatted Tomb Raider away from their traditional fanbase on playstation. Chances are they are big fans of Uncharted, wont want to to be duped into buying an Xbone for Tomb Raider when they know its not an Xbox game and just want to enjoy it. MS is smart, but evil.

No PS fans is used to wait the game from time exclusive (remember Xbox 360 era),  then PS4 will get the best version and play another games far better on PS4while waiting. Microsoft can spend the money while PS4 will get first party, better multyplatform games and 3rd party exclusive as well.  It's a futile movement from Microsoft. That's why Microsoft is stil not learning. 

Of course, its a big deal. Lara will be on top of Nate when the two goes head to head! ;)

Tomb Raider did some things better than Uncharted, but over all I prefer the each of the 3 previous PS3 Uncharteds to the TR reboot.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that CD/SE were looking at a Q1 2016 launch for a multiplat RTR, so as not to go up against Uncharted on PS4 for holiday 2015 and dilute their sales on the main TR platform. MS came along and offered a financial incentive to speed up development for the Xbox versions and release it holiday 2015 as a timed exclusive.

I just hope the sped up development timeline doesn't mean they put out a lesser product.

Judging by the fuss kicked up by ps fans, it's a big deal.

But I'll have to correct you on one bit. The deal didn't get the game onto x1, it was already coming so it's not really a plus for x1 fans. The deal stopped it from coming to the ps. So ms paid for bragging rights for 6 months*.

*Educated guess.... Kinda!

I try to look at the situation objectively but it's still a scummy move at the end of the day. This isn't like Bayonetta 2 where the game wouldn't have existed without Nintendo. This was a sequel to a very popular game that was going to every console (aside from WiiU) until Microsoft opened their wallet. They did nothing besides take away a game from another fanbase.

Oh whatever, PS4 fans will get Uncharted 4 in holiday 2015, then they can buy Tomb Raider a few months later when the timed exclusivity runs out I guess.

Square enix announced that the sales were disappointing. It wasn't until the release of the updated version on the next gen consoles that sales really took off. Now given that do you honestly think its going to have even decent sales if it is only on the X1. Hopefully MS paid them enough to make up for all the lost sales. Lol