While I agree that there's enough PR vagueness to keep from marking this as outright confirmation that a PS4 version will be forthcoming, it just seems REALLY short-sighted if the plan is 'Make the second game on Xbox One only, and then make the third game multiplatform.' Previously, I believe Tomb Raider performed better on the Playstation than anything else, but keeping a middle-series-title permanently exclusive to one platform just seems to be a guaranteed way to torpedo the sales of any later titles that go multiplatform. And since any multiplayer titles released in the future presumably wouldn't have Microsoft's support and funding to offset Square Enix's insane budgets, then those lost sales are going to hurt twice as much.
Timed exclusive makes sense. Even permanent exclusive series makes an admittedly more depressing sort of sense, if Microsoft regularly funded production and/or provided financial benefits to Square Enix for ALL the games in this iteration of Tomb Raider, it would offset the aforementioned budget. JUST releasing the one title for the Xbox One, on the other hand, is only going to benefit THAT title, and could severely damage the wider sales potential of Tomb Raider 3, which WOULDN'T have Microsoft's funding to offset this time.
Only way I can think of it making sense is if Square Enix has no particular, long-term plans with this iteration of Tomb Raider, and so decided to squeeze as much profit as they could from their Last Lara Croft Reboot title before moving on to other things.
Zanten, Doer Of The Things
Unless He Forgets In Which Case Zanten, Forgetter Of The Things
Or He Procrascinates, In Which Case Zanten, Doer Of The Things Later
Or It Involves Moving Furniture, in Which Case Zanten, F*** You.
