Polygon: Tomb Raider's Xbox exclusivity likely means more sales, higher profits

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Intrinsic said:

MoHasanie said:

Ok I understand your point, but the article is about profitabilty and I think the points brought up in it (excluding the math part at the end) are good and help defend SE's decision. 

SE publicly said that they were not happy with Tomb Raider's sales and that it failed to meet targets, even after shipping 3.4m units. At the end of 2013, they announced that it finally became profitable. It took them nearly 10 months and almost 4 million units sold for it finally become profitable. Clearly the budget of the game was huge. This article does actually bring up a few good reasons of why MS can help SE with the development and marketing. 

I understand what you are trying to say and what the article are saying. First off, SE are stupid. Tomb raider sold very well by any games standards... its gone on to sell over 6M copies. And any self respecting publisher should give every game they make at least a year before assessing sales.

I know what the benefits of MS helping with development and marketing are... but this is basicaly saying they don't have to spend money that they would have had to spend before and that they now have even more money to spend which just so happens to not be theirs all for biting a 6 month exclusivity bullet. Again, nothing wrong with this. More power to them and all that shit. I would do it if i were them and had the option.

What I have a problem with is the unnecesary PR spin. The stupid way polygon "a gaming media outlet" is trying to justify this. Their attempt at throwing numbers and points at us as if we were all stupid or something. Where as, all they had to say was....

"Tomb Raider is targeting a fall 2015 release date. This literally will put it in Uncharted 4 territory (pun intended) on the PS4. That would no doubt cannibalize sales of the game on the PS4 since the games are very similar. So it taking development benefits from MS tieing the game to the XB1 for that period, then release it on the PS4 when the U4 craze has died down a little was a smart move"

and what SE had to say instead of their own PR spin...

"MS secured rights to have the game on their platform first, but make no mistake... we will also be bringing the best Tomb Raider we also made to all our other fans that supported us so well."

That simple, not all this PR BS. Sometimes, the truth is actually just better.

Well SE said it... PS4 AND PC will have access to TR and temple of osiris. They can't even be clear that the game will come to other plats latter. While Sony on their show said which exclusives were timed.