CD interview : Developer discusses Rise of the Tomb Raider deal

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bananaking21 said:

Aerys said:

More like 6 months at best, they just want to avoid uncharted 4 on the same console 

they were money hatted, thats really it. tomb raider already has an established fanbase, it doesnt need to avoid uncharted on PS4. 

in truth you can't really blame them. How would sales of their game be when released on a console that is getting uncharted 4 around the same time. I think it would have been a bloodbath. This deal with ms was probably a very easy sell. Here take $50M, make the game exclusive to Xbox for 3-6 months then you can release it on the PS4 after the uncharted craze has died down. 

I would have done the exact same thing if I were them.