If anything it would push Square to make the game even better on PS4/PC because the title has tanked bigtime on X1 no matter how you slice it. Square weren't happy with the reboots performance figures and they were much higher than this(factoring in the 2 current platforms it is available on).

Monumental flop tbqf.

Both MS and SE lost in this partnership.

well, I think this is the last time we will see the XB1 get timed 3rd party exclusive anything, unless they literally fund the whole thing (like Titanfall) and in that case it would not be timed, just plain old exclusive.

So far this gen almost every dev that has bet on XB1 has lost (TRR is the worst of all). I am sure there has been a couple positive cases (I guess Titanfall would be one because it would not have existed without going with MS)

Dragon Age: Inquistion- EA gave marketing rights and times exclusive DLC to XB1. To date has sold 1.68 mil on PS4 and .75 on XB1. Surely EA would have gotten more return had they focused it the userbase that wanted to play it.
Witcher 3- Sold 2.67 on PS4, .86 on XB1. But XB1 had marketing rights.
Sunset OD- Isomaniac went with XB1. has sold .89 mil to date, and that was with bundling.
AC Unity- Oh boy. Impossible to judge sales at all seeing as it was probably the probably most bundled game in Xbox history (save Kinect Adventures). But the whole way AC Unity was handled from the marketing/bundles on the console that has never played it as much (even when the X360 was killing PS3 AC still sold better on PS3), botched launch, bugs, etc. It seems to have sent that series on a rapid decline. Which is funny because Black Flag was a major comeback for the series after kinda declining each year after AC2.

I know someone is ready to respond with "But the PS4 has a larger userbase thus the sales differences". no kidding. The 2 main things a Publisher should look at when giving exclusive marketing rights 1. User base 2. Audience. After that they can look and see how much they are willing to pay. If the Publishers analysis says going with X platform will reduce total sales by 200k, then if they are willing to cover that well why not. Guaranteed money I guess.

For example I saw some people are noting that BO3 is selling slightly better on XB1 in US, even with the PS4 having marketing. Ok. But which console is it selling more on. Look at WW totals. Which is all that really matters.

Activision seems to have figured this out. EA might be coming around (Madden on XBox makes sense as that game is almost completely US centric), but any company that goes with XBox as lead on anything at this point either was paid a shit ton of money by MS or they are stupid (which I believe Square falls into on TRR).

Please note I am only talking about marketing rights and some timed/exclusive content. Software sells well enough on the XB1 to warrant a port in just about every case (JRPGs being the only obvious exception).

Some people are making this out to be more than it is. I think that the tomb raider IP will be just fine. It's a big IP and it would take multiple shit releases to truly harm the IP. As for the game itself, I'm sure it's good and it will make up for sales once it releases on the other platforms. MS botched the launch with poor marketing and choosing a moronic release window. That's why the sales are low. I can't blame SE or MS for making this deal but it's fair to point out how badly the game was handled.

This is not true. In US both XB1 and PS4 close to each other in LTD which is why XB1 getting more sales from BO3 as they had marketing for first year and have friends in XB1, but in worldwide BO3 sold more than XB1 almost 2:1

Really? That's a shame, it looks like it's a great game. Well, I think that's a lesson for SE. A large part of the TR fandom are in Sony consoles, so this temporal exclusive seems odd to me.

1. MS haven't managed to move any consoles, so I think this wasn't a great deal for them.
2. SE managed to pissed off TR fans who play on PS4 or PC..

I think it's a lose-lose situation.

Worldwide, I acknowledge that Black Ops 3 is selling much more on PS4, however I don't think it is in-line with the userbase(PS4 has essentially double) and factoring in the exclusive marketing and early DLC. This is just for the US mind you, where COD is huge. Elsewhere I wouldn't be surprised if the PS4 version outsells the X1 version by 3 at the least.

I didn't even own a PS1, but when I think of that era - I always see Tomb Raider as synonomous with Playstation (And I know many others do too).

Furthermore:

-Even Last gen Tomb Raider sold ~40% more copies on PS3 than 360.

-The Definitive Edition sold over twice as many copies on PS4 as it did on X1.

And then they do this?!    No this is insane money hatting done to guard against Uncharted, and it cost SE a lot of money...

It didn't cost them a lot. That was all paid for by MS. It cost MS a lot they should've used on their own IP though...

I'm just gonna leave this here:

Rise of the Tomb Raider is now exclusive to Xbox One. Square Enix clearly wants the game to be uncharted: as in, not entering the charts.

— Ex-CEO Kaz Hirai (@KazHiraiCEO) August 12, 2014