Le nouveau Tomb Raider sur PC/PS4 en 2016

Last year when Rise of the Tomb Raider was announced it happened at Microsoft’s E3 Media Briefing. From that day to this Xbox has been promoting the game as an Xbox exclusive. While Crystal Dynamics has said that the exclusivity deal est chronométréMais jusqu'à présent, aucune information n'a été donnée quant à la date de sortie du jeu très attendu sur PC ou PS4. Jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Le jeu sortira sur les deux plateformes, mais les joueurs PS4 devront attendre un certain temps.

Aujourd'hui Square Enix a annoncé that the game, which will be released for Xbox One and Xbox 36o on November 10th of this year, will hit PC in early 2016. Xbox’s exclusivity deal is a year long on the console, however, so it will be Q4 2016 before the game hits PlayStation.

While timed exclusives are about the only exclusives left, outside of first party titles, the one year gap is much longer than we’re used to seeing. Most of the time it’s not more than a month or two between releases. Xbox has said that they are very interested in making the Tomb Raider de leur console, car ils veulent un titre qui soit en concurrence avec les Uncharted. Whatever Microsoft paid for their exclusivity was surely appealing to Square Enix, though in the end the PlayStation 4’s larger install base had to be appealing as well so a true exclusive was likely never in the cards.

S'élever peut s'avérer être une étude de cas intéressante. Lorsque le Édition définitive du dernier jeu Tomb Raider est sorti sur les consoles next-gen, plus d'un million d'euros ont été dépensés. deux tiers des ventes were for the PS4.  While the Xbox One exclusive launch will surely be big for Microsoft, and the PC launch coming closely behind it, it will be interesting to see what PS4 sales look like when the game finally hits that console. Will most gamers pick it up for Xbox or PC to get it early? Or will the game see most of it’s sales a year after its initial release?