Rise of the Tomb Raider coming to Steam early 2016 and PS4 Holiday 2016

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Sharpryno said:

Scoobes said:

Sharpryno said:

They published the game.  Learn what that means, friend. 

It can mean many things, but at the core of it, they sign the cheques and market the game. They don't have to do anything to help with development as long as CD don't screw up (in which case they either help or stop the money flowing).

Meaning they are not only paying to delay it. 

The difference in this case is there was already a publisher who had the funds to publish the game on all consoles at the same time.

MS offered to publish/pay for the Xbox versions but in return for having a timed exclusivity period (which makes sense for them, why bother publishing the Xbox versions if SE will publish the same game on other platforms).

So, they effectively are paying to delay it on the other platforms.