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walsufnir on 02 June 2015
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
walsufnir said:


STAGE, seriously. We all know. ALL. There is no need to repeat what we heard in dozens of threads in hundreds of posts. Nobody is arguing whether it comes to other consoles. The only thing unknown is the length of the exclusivity deal. This is going to be off-topic in this thread as it is about the trailer and the box-art. I only replied to him as he is talking about people which are apparently not in this thread. If you want to talk about why MS did this deal, do it. In a seperate thread if you think it wasn't discussed enough before.

Btw, yes, the game was primary on PS. Because Sony paid money so other TRs wouldn't also come for Saturn and Nintendo 64. Feel free to make a thread about this, too.

Tomb Raider was also on the Saturn but Sega lost almost all of their third party support because they pissed off third party by rushing the launch of the Sega Saturn. I saw a documentary on the fall of Sega which pointed out a lot of issues with Sega of America causing their huge fall with third party. As if Nintendo didn't cause enough of their troubles in the beginning. Sony was more of a problem for Nintendo than Sega. Sega did themselves in. They can barely run their company properly as a third party. Luckily Nintendo and Microsoft have been commissioning Platinum Games.

I didn't know that you already knew about the Tomb Raider issue with Microsoft. I'll still be playing it on my One regardless. Sorry about that.


Sega pissed off third parties but that wasn't why Lara didn't appear after TR1 on other consoles:

"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.[10]"

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

I think if you want to discuss this further, do it on my wall or via pn or something. To me the case is closed, TR franchise was locked out of consoles before (and really locked out) because of money.