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

[DonFerrari]

MoHasanie said:

DonFerrari said:

Well the points are okay (but since they don't know what happened it is pure speculation). But looking at X1 userbase and how much crossgen are selling on older gen and how much of the total was on ms platforms I disagree with you. For Square to lose about 1+M in sales (they certainly won't hit the same sales of the previous title) then the check will need to be substancial. I actually think that anything bellow 100M deal would probably harm the bottomline of SE.

We'll never know how much MS paid them. MS will probably market the game heavily though like they do with every exclusive so that will save SE a lot of money. I doubt MS paid them $100m though since its just timed, so maybe you're right about it being a bad deal for SE. 

The 100M I said isn't about money changing hands. But all the points of the article... Smaller royalty fee, marketing, ms engineers, money to develope, etc. Because there isn't only the lost sales for this game but also some image tarnishing that could damper sequels or even other games from SE. Fanboys can be bitter.