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walsufnir on 12 August 2014
Ninsect said:
walsufnir said:
Ninsect said:

Oh but I do know you, and you know me.

You didn't respond to my arguments. Pretty much the whole internet is against this with a few console warriors defending a cancellation of Playstation and PC versions. They are doing you absolutely ZERO favors by cancelling those versions and yet here you are seemingly happy with the decision.


Yeah, you know me that good that you don't know that I even don't own an Xbone. Congratulations, sir, well done. I am not happy with it but it's a legit way for MS to get exclusives to their platform.

Did I ever say you had an Xbox One? I remember you almost switching camps, to Playstation's side, before this gen started but it looks like that didn't work out.

It's a "legit" way but it's a shitty practice to cancel versions already announced and being worked on, especially when PS has been home for Tomb Raider for decades.

Anyway, don't you want to bet it's timed?


"Switching camps"? What? There is no "switching camps"... I played a lot on PS years ago, I still do it from time to time (on an emulator). As well as I play old gems on Snes, Genesis and so on. There is no "switching".

And to bet? What would you have to offer to make it even remotely interesting?



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ice on 12 August 2014

.... This is hilarious, some of these comments. This was to be worse than Bayonetta 2.



hinch on 12 August 2014

Now that I think about it.. Microsoft got an amazing deal from all this. Square Enix on the other hand, just fucked up one of their major franchises.



LemonSlice on 12 August 2014

I'm guessing SE really needed that exclusivity money now. Of course they'll lose five million in sales but that will come later. (probably when they will need it more)



Ninsect on 12 August 2014
walsufnir said:
Ninsect said:

Did I ever say you had an Xbox One? I remember you almost switching camps, to Playstation's side, before this gen started but it looks like that didn't work out.

It's a "legit" way but it's a shitty practice to cancel versions already announced and being worked on, especially when PS has been home for Tomb Raider for decades.

Anyway, don't you want to bet it's timed?


"Switching camps"? What? There is no "switching camps"... I played a lot on PS years ago, I still do it from time to time (on an emulator). As well as I play old gems on Snes, Genesis and so on. There is no "switching".

And to bet? What would you have to offer to make it even remotely interesting?

Pride.

And avatar control for a month (and/or sig). Or maybe you have other ideas?



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Imaginedvl on 12 August 2014

Good move from Microsoft (for Xbox One owners at lest). Being one of them, I could not complain :)



Seihaku on 12 August 2014

Who needs to rebuild a franchise when you can have a few million now :)

 



starcraft on 12 August 2014

This meltdown is rivalling the FFXIII E3 MS reveal.

This is insane. For those who missed it still calling timed exclusive, MS has now listed themselves as the PUBLISHER on Xbox.com.



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walsufnir on 12 August 2014
Carl2291 said:
walsufnir said:
It's funny to read here, especially when I remember the time the TR reboot was revealed people (not generalizing but many from Sony side did it) hated on it, looking like Uncharted and uninspired. When it was released many of these people said it was ok but nothing ground breaking and where criticizing it for not being their beloved TR anymore.
Now it is moving on to another platform where a lot of people (including me, having played 1-4 of the old TRs) liked it the way it is.
Sometimes it seems people just search for opportunities to hate on MS. This topic will stay for weeks, months and the moneyhatting itself for years. I guess this will be the top spot on N4G for days to come.


I disagree on that bolded part. Tomb Raider had fantastic word of mouth and many people, myself included, see it as being an improvement on the Uncharted formula.

This whole thing has nothing to do with hating on Microsoft. Its more to do with pointing out just how idiotic someone at Square Enix must be to sign this deal when the first TR game struggled to make money on a userbase of over 100 Million consoles.


It had definitely but as usual it also got hated because

1. it wasn't like the old ones (too few tombs to explore many criticized and there is some truth in it)

2. it was a direct competitor to Uncharted. People even argued that it was a clone of Uncharted while others insisted Uncharted wouldn't exist without the old TR).



BMaker11 on 12 August 2014

So Tomb Raider 2013 has to sell like 6M copies to barely break even. The PS3 version outsold the 360 version. And with the Definitive Edition, the PS4 version outsold the XBone version. But the next Tomb Raider is exclusive to the XBone? The console with the lowest marketshare? Despite needing really high sales to profit and PS community buys more Tomb Raider?

I'm not gonna hate on the next Tomb Raider because it's exclusive, but I will say that Square Enix is retarded.