Actually it is a slouch. Tomb Raider sales are pretty low. Square Enix even said so themselves.

Yeah I'm very excited for the game. Although if I were in charge of SE, I wouldn't have made it exclusive cause it will hurt the sales of the game and might affect the sales of future games as well.

See and this is why nobody hear has to listen to you -__-

Ive mentioned it once here and I will mention it again

http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/03/07/tomb-raider-closing-in-on-six-million-copies

Easy achievements.

The ironic thing about the timed exclusivity here is that Xbox will end up with the worst version of the game.

By the time the PC and PlayStation versions come out, they would've had more time for optimization, have ironed out the bugs, and maybe throw in a free DLC pack or two.

Square Enix will benefit most by making this tile a AAA title that sales lots of copies. As a 3rd party game Rise of the Tomb Raider would of been over shadowed by Uncharted 4 and Halo 5. The timed exclusive make this game a big Xbox one Holiday game and actually put it in the limelight. Square the biggest winner since they don't have to sales as many copies to recover their cost. Had the game release on multiplatform PS4 owner would of got Uncharted 4 and simply wait for discount bin to pick up Rise of Tomb Raider. 

Nothing good come out of this? XBox one owner's get a much needed AAA Title that can compare to Uncharted 4..... Square get Microsoft to pay for development and can take greater risk and increase the development budget. The video game industry is a business and this get in the way of making great games. This deal reduce the impact of said business decision and Crystal Dynamic now has bigger funding or green light to make a AAA titles funded by Microsoft money. If you think the game would of been the same without this deal then you clearly don't understand the business of video game. 

Hm... I never really liked achievements/trophies. I rarely go out of my way to get them. I like to set my own goals!

Personally I think it'll be a win for Square and Sony but still a lost for MS. This time exclusive is just delaying the inevitable.

People still bother to discuss this. I thought it ran its course. The game is between two rocks now. The TR brand could be permanently damaged by the outrage. I don't know its outcome. Since there's a lot of factors in. I personally think its a dumb move. Yes, argue all the reasons why it had to happen. Humans are not logical with emotions.

Yeah instead of a timed exclusive deal, MS should of just bought out Square Enix