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Rumor: Rise of Tomb Raider PS4 will release Q4 2016 for $40.
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From there speech with Final Fantasy 7 Remake about being a playstation franchise I'd assume they would want all of their franchises aka tomb raider.
BluenoseGames
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You know Square Enix publishes games right ? They'll do PS4/PC version.
RealityCheque
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Poor lara, doesn't matter how good you are. If you aren't Halo or COD, then you should run from 2015. Fallout 4 is going to bury you.
Square are going to be scrambling for a Q2 PC/PS4 release to shore up their numbers. Fallout is way bigger than anyone seems able to give it credit for.
Square are going to be scrambling for a Q2 PC/PS4 release to shore up their numbers. Fallout is way bigger than anyone seems able to give it credit for.
Mushroomer25
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Hmm. Since they don't seem to have any concrete evidence for this - I'm going to clump it into the "Silent Hills costing Microsoft BILLIONS" camp of skepticism.
That said, a Q4 2016 release sounds believable. But I imagine it'll be a GOTY package costing a full $60.
That said, a Q4 2016 release sounds believable. But I imagine it'll be a GOTY package costing a full $60.
They seem to be hit or miss with their rumors. It was a laughable miss with the Silent Hills rumor but they were on point for the Dark Souls 3 rumor (though the latter they had actually images and such).
Personally find it plausible though a year does seem rather long. I have my money on it being a more of a Summer 2016 release.
Personally find it plausible though a year does seem rather long. I have my money on it being a more of a Summer 2016 release.
Obliterator
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The whole handling of this game has been a mess. No PS4 or PC version at launch. Cross generation game this far into the the gen. Releasing same day as Fallout 4.
I'm expecting SE to have another "dissapointing sales" scenario for TR
then the following week immediately brought it back with Dark Souls 3
Adam_Roman
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I'm calling BS because they didn't mention PC.
SolidSnakex
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As far as consoles go FF7 (and games in the Compilation) have only ever appeared on Playstation consoles. So it only makes sense that they'd have that viewpoint. TR has been multiplatform for a longtime.
They said other platforms.
BluenoseGames
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come on guys if it was a year long, MS would be saying launching first exclusively on xbox rather than stress on "HOLIDAY 2015" . i mean yea maybe pc is early 2016 and ps4 is year late but i doubt square would be that dumb. they both will most likely be early 2016 and april would be my guess.
Mr. Nice_Guy
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Well when someone hands you a boatload of screens and video then yeah...kind of hard to screw that up.
Funny thing is they kind of did though, making an obnoxiously long video that no one wanted to weed through with terrible lower thirds obscuring images and video.
I find this hard to believe, but with all the brew ha this timed exclusive has been getting it's certainly possible.
Lee Chaolan
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Hmm....I have both and X1 and a PS4 and I think I'll wait either way. Still haven't even finished the first reboot. 
kruis
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The funny thing is that SE went for this exclusivity deal with MS because they didn't want to compete directly with Uncharted during the holiday season. An exclusive deal with MS in Q4 2015 and a PC/PS4 sometime in 2016 would make that possible.
I bet the SE execs must have been livid when they heard that Uncharted 4 was delayed and realizing the deal with MS was unnecessary.
Reluctant-Hero
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Please tell me that the PC doesn't suffer the same fate.
Honestly, if S-E sold one year exclusivity to MS (which would show how little faith they have in the franchise) they may as well sell the IP to MS.
RipperGrim
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Honestly this would kinda piss me off if it's true, I really enjoyed the first and having to wait a whole extra year purely because of a business deal is bullshit.
BluenoseGames
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The 'they did it to compete with Uncharted' statement is so stupid. Why would they limit themselves to one platform that isn't doing as well to compete with a game that's on a console that's selling well. It makes no sense.
Edit: I guess you mean specifically the one year timeline, I gotcha.
thelastcrusader
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^. This. I still have like 20 games from 2014 to beat.Grimløck;169980842 said:
Mushroomer25
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I'd argue the contrary. Now they've got the Fall to themselves, without the distraction of Uncharted. Then when they do release on PS4, it'll be far removed.
kruis
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Square-Enix logic makes no sense.
Either Squenix is run by monkeys or the MS paycheck makes more than up for it because otherwise it'd be damn stupid to dump the game during the busiest months of gaming - twice!
Metalingus5150
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I doubt it'll be a year.
BluenoseGames
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I doubt it, I think it'd just be the DLC.
valkillmore
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If true I can wait and might actually get it
A whole year? What? Not sure I can see that. I was thinking it'd be like Q1/2 2016. When does the PC version come out for Tomb Raider? Same time or is that unknown for now too?
Not really sure what platform I want TR on, but probably not X1, between PS4 and PC for me. If it has an online element to it, instantly PS4, if not, I'd prefer PC, not really sure which is better now though between a 780m and PS4, though it's batman which has shaken my confidence, so hopefully that'll be changed again when it's fixed.
Not really sure what platform I want TR on, but probably not X1, between PS4 and PC for me. If it has an online element to it, instantly PS4, if not, I'd prefer PC, not really sure which is better now though between a 780m and PS4, though it's batman which has shaken my confidence, so hopefully that'll be changed again when it's fixed.
Doctor_Thomas
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Can't release it in Q1 due to Uncharted, can't realease Q2-Q3 because of legacy sales arguments.
kruis
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A PS4/PC version in Q3/Q4 2016 will bomb. All the launch excitement will have evaporated. There will be so many heavy hitters launching at that time that a year old port of the Xbox One version will be old hat and sell like shit, even at $40. It's simply stupid to launch one of their studios biggest sellers as a year late budget title on the two platforms where TR sells best.
Mushroomer25
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I'd bet good money on this game moving release date to dodge Fallout. Maybe snatch the date of whatever needs a last-minute 2016 delay.
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