Xbox One and Tomb Raider - An admission from MS that they cannot compete with Sony and Nintendo First party?

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Mr_No on 12 August 2014

hinch said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Pretty much yeah. Unconfirmed whether it is full exclusive or just timed though.

Looks like timed - Shinobi602 / CBOAT.

Even the wording both CD and MS use: "Holiday 2015" seems iffy.

If it was really timed, Microsoft and Crystal Dynamics would just say it. Unless Microsoft is lying to get the hype and attention for their console.

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hinch on 12 August 2014

Mr_No said:

hinch said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Pretty much yeah. Unconfirmed whether it is full exclusive or just timed though.

Looks like timed - Shinobi602 / CBOAT.

Even the wording both CD and MS use: "Holiday 2015" seems iffy.

If it was really timed, Microsoft and Crystal Dynamics would just say it. Unless Microsoft is lying to get the hype and attention for their console.

I don't know.. PR coming from both companies. Both mincing their words to fit holiday and 2015 in them.

Seems pretty bait to me.

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Machiavellian on 12 August 2014

Ucell said:

taggartaa said:

Burek said:
When some people occasionaly call for Microsoft to abandon XBox, there is always one counter-argument: Competition is good for gamers.

Sure, it's good when competitors strive to be better, more innovative, more competitive, more diverse.

Right now, competition obviously means that over 50% of gamers get screwed over by a corporation with too much money and no ideas at all.

Without Microsoft, the psn would still be horrid... Competition is still and will always be good!

Without MS, PS+ would also not have been a requirement for multiplayer gaming on PS4.

Sure, MS forced Sony to add MP to PS+ because giving away 2 games a month was a win fall for the service. I guess you are the type of person who blames the boy who jumps off the bridge and do the exact same thing saying it wasn't your fault.

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prayformojo on 12 August 2014

celador said:

Titanfall, Sunset Overdrive, Dead Rising 3, Ryse, Scalebound - All 'exclusives' all made by other studios with no input from MS other than money. Now Tomb raider can be added to the list.

The majority of MS's first party studios are doing the same things they have been doing for a decade - Halo, Forza, Gears, Fable and more Halo. Black Tusk where making a new IP,then got shafted and are now working on another Gears game after MS bought the rights.

Nintendo and Sony also have third party exclusives, but not to the same extent as MS, and a lot of the time they are also involved with development, like Studio Japan with Bloodborne and Nintendo with Hyrule Warriors.

If MS are as committed to the Xbox brand going forward, why don't they spend some money on another first party studio or two, instead of paying developers not to release games on other systems? Is this an admission they cannot compete on a first party level? And if not why aren't they even trying?

It's an admission (for those who didn't know by now) that they're only in this for money and have zero love for the craft of gaming.

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GoldenGamer on 12 August 2014

Of course they can not compete.The funny thing is that these third party games always go to other platforms.TF is coming and so will RotTR.Dr3 is also going to PC, so MS has little exclusives regardless.

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