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sweetoothj on 03 June 2015
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DerNebel said:
sweetoothj said:

Ninja Gaiden 2 and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 were different games in a lot of way. The reason this was is simply because they can't use any assests that Microsoft contributed to as well as the name they bought. So again rise of tomb raider won't be on ps4. Also, phil said (which everyone seems to ignore) he won't make games or fund games that will show up on the rival platform and compares the deal to dead rising and ryse. Which those games went multiplatform because it showed up on the PC.

1.Microsoft didn't buy the Tomb Raider name and he clearly stated that the deal he has has a duration.

2. People might be ignoring it because he never said it, Phil Spencer said that he wouldn't fund the development of a version on a rivals system, so he won't fund the PS4 version of RoTR, nowhere did he say that he's stopping SE from funding it themselves.

3. Google Ryse PS4, you will find an interview in which Crytek says they are open to a PS4 version of the game. MS is not stopping them. The reason Ryse and Dead Rising 3 are not on PS4 are not because of MS.

 

And if Tomb Raider won't come to PS4 why won't he just say it? Like they did with Titanfall or like Sony did with SFV? Give one good reason for that.

1. Obviously he didn't pay for tomb raider franchise, but doesn't mean he can't buy a title from the franchise and make it exclusive.

2. Sure square enix can fund the game, but they can't use any assets that microsoft contributed to so that means they would have to start from scratch in many areas.

3. Sure, he is open to it, but doesn't mean he can (or easily can) he has to probably redo alot of things and make sure nothing in the game is what Microsoft contributed to (if he could make the ps4 version why hasn't he already?). Also, spencer said plenty of time he will not talk about rival platform at all (or at least tries to). He is focus on xbox and to a certain extent on PC. Also, he probably doesn't want to talk too much about it because he wants to promote xbox and doesn't want anyone to know of a pc version. Titan Fall was released on pc the same day as the xbox version so it make sense to go ahead and talk about it.

 

However, go ahead and wait for a ps4 version. Maybe you will get lucky and square enix buys the rights to the game and allows the game to release on ps4 at the end of the generation just like the original mass effect.