Rise of the Tomb Raider- Xbox Exclusive

I am one of those people who are (were?) saving for a PS4, I've got it all worked out, buying in Oct/Nov 2015 just in time for the December release. Hahahaha....ha

In a way, we all knew that MS had more of a favour between Underworlds' extra levels, the TR controller, the timed exclusive tomb etc. This just seems beyond stupid. Taking a game that has been multi platform since '96 and turning it into an exclusive. Not only that, but wasn't TR more popular on PS than on Xbox?

What else really annoys me is that it is isolating the sub communities. TR has one of the best, most creative and supporting communities. There is Katie with her award winning website that has been going for 13 years? Where is she going to get screenshots from now? The modding community from the PC versions, no that has gone for rise too. There is the cosplay community, which in many ways provide free marketing by embodying Lara at conventions and through photography. I'm pretty sure that I won't be the only one who won't want to create a cosplay because either I haven't been able to play the game or doesn't want to support the stance.

I understand new IPs being exclusive, they are purposefully made for that console. It's annoying if you want to play it, but no big deal. Your console of choice will also have their own unique games. That is okay. But TR has always been multi, personally I've played it on saturn, PC, PS1, PS2 and PS3. Just generally bad business practice. However I'm guessing MS paid out the big buck eh?

That picture of Camilla came to mind today, was it really about the graphics? Is this how they are going to reason it? Pretty sure the PS4 and especially PC would be miles ahead. Not that it even really matters! I'd rather have less mocapping and worse graphics so that it was able to be on all platforms.

Hearing now that it could be a timed exclusive. Pretty sure this is a U Turn with the reaction. You know what to do when this happens? Wait out for the other versions, preorder if you must. Can you imagine if other versions sell better than the 'exclusive'?!

From the reaction I've seen from other employees at Crystal on twitter, they didn't even know about it either! I think it was a last minute decision by the big wig Darrell Gallagher who just saw big dollar signs by Microsoft and agreed with it without telling his own staff!!! I really hope his head is on some serious block right now!!!




Don't have to imagine, that is what would happen!!!



I hope they do... if not the company, the person who made the ridiculous decision to do this!!!

I was shocked at first. Now I am enraged! What are they thinking?!? It took Tomb raider 2013 over a year to finally break even and turn a profit. Do they honestly think they will meet sales expectations by making it an exclusive? I was so looking forward to the new game. I was even going to start saving for a new Gaming PC so I could play it to it's fullest. But now apparently Crystal thinks I will drop $400 on a Xbox 1 just so I can play one game. This action is only going to alienate fans.

Who knows. Maybe if we get angry enough, we might get them to reverse their actions, or at the very least, have them make a PC port of the game.

There's only one I can think of, and that's Ninja Gaiden

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Gaiden

Was a massive multiplatform game, then suddenly 1 version was xbox ONLY.

Fans went nuts.. it EVENTUALLY came out on other platforms but the damage was done