Spencer confirms: Tomb Raider deal "has a duration" (also cross gen)

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melbye said:
Dammit, Phil Spencer makes it hard to dislike XBOX

Perhaps, but Greenberg makes it easy. Seems like good cop bad cop tactics to me. If the last "official" word from MS is all soft and soothing tones it may be hoped that people will forget the PR crap that went on, including from CD, over the previous day or so.

Greenberg specifically tweeted a response to appear to contradict what Keighly was suggesting, that RTR is only a 2015 exclusive. Making it seem like it's a permanent exclusive. And while Spencer is right that his job is not to talk about whether or not the game will come to other platforms it is MS's duty not to mislead. 

MS is directly responsible for the misleading crap that went on in the last 24 hours when in the original announcement they could simply have said, without specifics, that MS and SE/CD have an exclusivity arrangement which means the only place you'll be able to play RTR in 2015 is on Xbox. The the path for Tomb Raider from 2016 onwards is entirely in SE/CD'S hands, we are just here to say RTR in 2015 is only on Xbox.

Seriously, has MS made any actual mileage out of 24 hours of uncertainty as to the extent of the exclusivity? Only the anti-Xbox brigade are passed off in any way. But are console agnostics who are yet to decide what to buy this generation going to be more or less likely to go with Xbox now after MS and SE/CD chose to treat gamers like drooling idiots who can't spot bullshit when it's served up to them?

Anyway I feel vindicated in my assertion that moneyhatting existing IP for full permanent exclusivity is not a viable proposition. And aside from a few isolated examples it never really has been.