Let's cover this one first as it's a definite, no speculation required - Microsoft has pumped enough cash into publisher Square Enix's bank account to make Rise Of The Tomb Raider an Xbox exclusive when it hits stores in the 2015 holiday period. There's some importance in the wording there, though. Yes, it will be exclusive to Microsoft's console when it launches late next year, but that's not to say it will stay that way. All parties involved (so Microsoft, Square Enix and developer Crystal Dynamics) kept things pretty vague when the game was announced, everyone being careful to make it sound like it was a permanent exclusive without actually saying as much. Gamers went ballistic. Many felt that they had been duped into falling in love with Lara Croft for the 2013 multi-platform Tomb Raider reboot, and now were being bullied into going with Team Xbox if they wanted to keep that love affair going. Which is precisely what Microsoft would have been after. It was soon revealed that there was a time frame involved, but everyone was so non-committal about it that we still don't really know the details. The bottom line is that, while there may be a Rise Of The Tomb Raider heading to the PS4 at some point in the future, it has only been officially announced for the Xbox family. That should be enough to push a couple of fence-sitters with a crush on Lara over into the Microsoft camp.
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