Sony are funding the development of Street Fighter V. Microsoft are purchasing a time limited exclusivity for Tomb Raider. They are 2 completely different deals.

Unless you have openly called out MS/SE over Tomb Raider you should probably watch what you're saying, because in that case you're not less hypocritical.

Also again, Capcom could have just stuck with SFIV for the forseeable future.

Why not? MS is paying for Tomb Raider to be a timed exclusive so it will come to other platforms eventually. Sony paid for SF5 to be a console exclusive, so X1 owners will not get to play it at all.  When I look at it like that, what Sony did is worse than what MS did, especially since SF is a bigger franchise than Tomb Raider. 

The thing is about TR is that they expected the 1st one to sell at least 6 million so to sell that much number SE should make it multiplatform and we all know PS4 sold a lot more than X1 even when MS announced exclusive to X1.

By logic: if you want to sell more then why you keep exclusive on one side only? Not to mention that "that side" has sold lesser than its contender.

It's been said enough times in this thread the differences between these two deals. People will believe what they want so really not point to this thread.

Is that the best answer you got C'mon now? There are plenty of Capcom IP rotting away right now. Capcom are a shadow of their former selves. SF5 might of eventually got made a few years down the line but Sony stepped in and made it happen. Maybe your brain can't discern the difference but Rise of the Tomb Raider was already in development for multiple platforms before Ms stepped in and money hatted it. Is that why they were so shadowy over the wording of the exclusivity. It's only a timed exclusive but MS at the announcement tried to make it look like a full exclusive until they got called out on it

Totally different scenario 

I'm getting quite good at guessing the thread creator based on the title alone. More thinly veiled trolling and bias from you. I like how you claim PS fans sank to a new low and threatened devs, while this may be the case this is in no way unique and you can be sure capcom devs were threatened over the SFV deal. I remember reading some death threats from xbox fans the other day towards the COD devs just because the PS4 now has the COD deal.

Also the two situations aren't the same at all. The tomb raider deal was handled very badly and worded in a way to make it seem like it's fully exclusive. It was also shown off before the deal was announced, with no mention of exclusivity.

I don't agree with Azzanation's arguement that TR wouldn't have happened without MS, but that article raises a point. No the situations regarding SFV and ROTTR are not the same, but it doesn't change the fact that MS helped to fund the game which led to timed exclusivity.  Square Enix wanted to maximize profits, and how do you do that? You find someone who will chip in a few bucks, and AFAIK they appear to be doing the same thing with the FFVII remake and all signs point to it being a timed exclusive. That shouldn't surprise anyone given it's the same publisher. 

You got the wrong end of the stick. Why are Sony gonna pay for SF5 on MS console. They are paying for the costs of the PS4 version and Capcom are covering PC

thread. 

on one hand we have a game that was confirned by the dev to not have either the money or man power to make, vs a game thats prequel sold 7 million units by the time the deal was struck. geez