Xbox One and Tomb Raider - An admission from MS that they cannot compete with Sony and Nintendo First party?

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Microsoft is still trying to create a comparable roster of studios to make their 1st Party IPs. Where Nintendo and Sony have now had a decades to build up theirs, MS has only just come to this realization in the past 5 years. They have Black Tusk and probably many other studios yet to be disclosed.....but they are rookies. They cannot stand to the calibers of Nintendo's and Sony's 1st Party when they have guys like Naughty Dog.

So MS does what MS does best...........have a problem? Throw spurious amounts of money at it. Titanfall, Plants vs. Zombies:Garden Warfare, and now Rise of the Tomb Raider. MS is currently flailing in the water trying to stay afloat in this next gen marathon.

Its just funny because every moneyhat tactic MS pulled against the struggling PS3 last gen is now biting them in the butt. The amount of money they must have needed to get TR had to be crazy, especially knowing that the game has not been all that popular in years. I think this means MS has to pick their battles carefully. Its getting harder and harder for them to convince these 3rd parties to abandon Sony, and costing them more money just to get chicken scraps. This is exactly why this method of sustainability DOESN'T WORK!!!!! Sony knew this from the start. Bribing 3rd Parties with cash to only be on your platform turns into extortion after a while, to the point you cannot keep up. Once you have run that well dry they will build for the other platform and then years of hardwork is undone. Everyone here at this point KNOWS this is probably Timed Exclusive. Knowing that totally takes the wind out of it being exclusive at all, basically making the whole thing useless.

Nevertheless, this is still probably a good temp fix for MS. Square Enix on the other hand........continues to bury themselves in an even deeper hole. So they just killed more than 50% of potential sales at the beginning. What is going to happen when MS is no longer willing to pay? The next game will have to multiplat but will sell considerably less than it's potential because many will not want to start the next without playing the first(the entry they will assume never came to PS4 cuz it was late).