Rise of the Tomb Raider is being published by Microsoft

[LordLichtenstein]

true_fan said:

LordLichtenstein said:

true_fan said:

riderz13371 said:

true_fan said:

riderz13371 said:

Vitral? I don't know what that means. Also, where did he say that? I tried googling it but can't find anything. A link is much appreciated!

Sorry it was a typo, vitriol mean fury and anger. Ps4 fans would yell, petition and boycott when a dev not sony related does something, but when sony does the same thing it's usually excused. View the address below.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-08-18-xbox-boss-phil-spencer-makes-case-for-tomb-raider-exclusivity-deal

This quote says it all.

"Now, obviously if I'm going to partner on it, I'm a platform holder, I'm hardly going to invest to go make the PlayStation version of any game. It is a business. So when we go invest with a partner on a big franchise, we're going to come with certain needs we have out of the relationship."

timed-exclusive.

Exactly for a PC version, it's so funny you skipped over where he explicitly mentions playstation. Oh well man keep holding out hope for that ps4 release.

Let me break this quote down for you.


"I'm hardly going to invest to go make the PlayStation version of any game"

Don't you think "hardly" is a strange choice of word, when he simply could have said "not" if the game was in fact exclusive?


"So when we go invest with a partner on a big franchise, we're going to come with certain needs we have out of the relationship."

What he probably meant was; they paid for exclusive content, marketing rights and the opportunity to publish the game, but being a direct competitor - what they really needed was "exclusivity". A big franchise like Tomb Raider is hard to money hat, so their "certain needs" probably just became timed-exclusivity.