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GamechaserBE on 15 August 2014
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naruball said:
GamechaserBE said:
I feel like becoming so old when reading articles with information that is not totally correct and should be known by veterans..

Anyway:

In September 1997, Sony Computer Entertainment America signed a deal with Eidos to make console releases for the Tomb Raider franchise exclusive to the PlayStation, preventing the Sega Saturn or the Nintendo 64 from having any Tomb Raider game released for it until 2000, a deal that would prove very beneficial to Sony both in terms of revenue dollars and also in further cementing the PlayStation's growing reputation as the go-to system for must-have exclusive titles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_Raider_II


Wait, since when is wikipedia is a reliable source? Can't I just go and edit that myself?

Also, this: "very beneficial to Sony both in terms of revenue dollars and also in further cementing the PlayStation's growing reputation as the go-to system for must-have exclusive titles" is not a fact but an opinion. We don't know what kind of role TR played in Psone's success. For all we know it could have done just as well without it (unlikely but still). Also, how well known and successful was Tomb Raider before signing that deal? How well was the psone doing compared to Sega Saturn and N64 at that moment? You can't just ignore these things because they don't fit your argument.

It was pretty well know news back then, even BBC reported it by then:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/32939.stm

2) TR was pretty popular by then, probably the COD of that generation and hated at the end for releasing every year with the same engine..

3) Sales maybe were not good for the saturn version but weird that in 2000 TR would release again on sega platforms..;