Square Enix has announced that Rise Of The Tomb Raider will be released on PC January 28th, with Nixxes Software helping with this port of the game. Additional features will include the ability to play Lara Croft’s latest adventure in 4K. A price of $59.99 has been given, with the Deluxe edition costing $89.99 and that includes the Season Pass for all the DLC.
There will also be a Collector’s Edition which has the addition of a 12 inch Lara Croft statue, and that will be priced at $159.99. It will also have a digital code for the game and season pass.
Source: Press Release
The Lone Steven
That is taking the piss. Releasing it with a collector’s edition and DLC after the timed exclusive crap is just crap.
I’m guessing it’s the PS4 version that is getting a 6 month delay due to the timed stuff.
Avenger
If I remember correctly, the timed exclusive clause concerning the console release stated 12 months, so Q4 at the earliest for a PS4 release (Unless SE find and initiate a legal wrokaround). The PC release was planned a while ago in much the same fashion as Gears of War, release on XB1 first, then follow up with a Windows PC release.
The Lone Steven
My bad. Was making a guess with the time period. Tis usually 6 or 12 with these things. SE could port it over under a different name and go “It’s not that. See, Lara has a porn scene. We included that. It’s also Just Dance:Crofting Raider.” but legally, they can’t do anything apart from breaking the contract and i suspect MS would raise all kinds of hell.
Avenger
Uncharted 5: Drake becomes Lara. You heard it here first :P
The Lone Steven
Followed by Sully dating her and then re-enacting the Eisnhorn is Finkle, FINKLE IS EISNHORN! Oh god, Eisnhorn is a man, montage in UC6.
AngryCoward
Dismal XB1 sales with an sales based exit clause is the NEOGAF whisper, PS4 release might be sooner than you think, but unlikely to be near Uncharted 4. Before or after…
The Lone Steven
Or it could be due to the whole busy period of the year and being buried by Fallout 4, COD,FIFA that caused low sales. NEOGAF is not really a trustworthy source and there is no way MS would tie it into sales due to what they paid. They paid for it in return for X months on X1. PC, they have windows and it is most likely a X1 for consoles only timed thing with a month delay for the PC platform.
Starman
It’s sold over a million. You frequenting Neogaf explains a lot.
AngryCoward
Microsoft released a wolly statement about all xb1 exclusives SHIIPPING more than 1m across all platforms..
Seems you have been fooled by their marketing spin. Bargain bins around the land are full of deeply discounted copies, where is was decided months ago this 1m marketing post xmas message was going to be pushed out regardless of what sold and what didn’t…
The Lone Steven
*gasps* They released shipping figures!? *gasps again* How….utterly usual that is. Publishers do that all the time and chances are, it was the publisher that released it. MS’s figures usually involve their hardware.
The same could be said for all PS exclusives regarding bargain bins. Also, it doesn’t matter if they are in the bargain bins as it varies from retailer to retailer. Or Game. There was also sales and combined with the heavy weights, TR was bound to get reduced to shift more copies. Fallout 4, Halo 5, COD, SW:BF were all released near or at the same time as TR thus sales were harmed.
The same has happened to Sony’s stuff in the past. If UC4 was launched at that time, chances are, it would struggle to sell as well and probably get discounted.
AngryCoward
Software discs are quick and easy to produce, unlike consoles.
Games are pressed to regulate demand so as to NOT flood the market and not fill up bargain bins. In this case however, Microsoft shipped 1m to the market just so they can claim 1m shipped (knowing idiots will assume it means sold).
It’s one big marketing stunt, and at least 2 people here have been fooled into believing they sold over a million copies. Quite laughable really.
Starman
You rage over sales figures for a videogame is quite comical. Can’t imagine how you must be over something serious that actually has any affect on you.
The Lone Steven
MS didn’t ship anything. It was Square that did. MS virtually have nothing to do with the production of games beyond approving it for their console and uploading it to the store and a few bits that they handle behind the scenes. It was Square that would have came out and said that 1million were shipped. Even if MS did ship them out, it would not be a marketing stunt and would be to meet demand. 1million sounds like an average figure to be shipped and usually translates well into sales over a small period of time.
I don’t recall MS ever releasing a statement about the total amount of exclusives shipped. Nor do i recall them doing reports about sales.
Forrest_01
Ok, I am all for freedom of speech & all that gubbins, but I for one have to say that I don’t really get all these arguments over which is better, who wins etc. Why does it matter?
I have no idea why someone would be so up in arms about what Microsoft report & what they don’t. Not sure what impact that actually has on their life if I am honest.
Why can we not just enjoy the platform of our choice & the games that are available on that & have done with it? It strikes me that the same sort of arguments don’t happen over whether toasted bagels are better than toast (& the way that warburtons have spun the figures on that perhaps!), or whether one blu-ray player is better than another, with someone being branded an ‘idiot’ for buying ‘the wrong one’. It all just feels quite juvenile.
Just because someone chose one over the other (or has both for example), it doesn’t make them bad people.
(Also worth bearing in mind that whilst TSA did start as a PlayStation centric site, it is not any longer & now caters for other platforms too. Has done for some time.)
bunimomike
The reason you don’t get it is because you’re a grown-up. Once you turn into a childish pedant you begin to understand.
The Lone Steven
I will admit, it is kinda amusing to read these types of comment but like Forrest, i see fanboyism over consoles as a waste of time. I also fail to see how liking one platform makes someone stupid and that reports must favour that platform or it’s shills, spins etc…
It does get a bit boring after a while to see the same topic being brought up in pretty much any X1 related post and if it is a running gag with parodies, it kinda says that it needs to stop.
I also feel that most people couldn’t care less about figures regarding shipping and sales as it’s the game’s quality that counts. The Original Ico sold poorly but it is a cult classic. Spec Ops:the Line, sold poorly, has a decent following etc… The fans of those games, probably do wonder why they sold poorly but apart from that, enjoy the game more and don’t really care about shipping.
JR.
It’s human nature to defend what you believe in. Just replace PS4/XBI with Christianity/Islam, Union/Confederates, Liverpool/Man Utd. All equally ridiculous imo. People can be passionate about anything and like all the examples above, there will always be some who take it to the next level.
bunimomike
JR. :) Happy New Year, fella.
If you don’t mind me saying… I think you’re wrong about it being human nature although you’re right about everything else. It’s all utterly ridiculous.
It’s completely cultural. Division and the inability to accept something else (to the point of irrational defence and even coming to blows over such stuff) has to be cultural, surely. We can’t blame this on nature. Or at least, it is when it comes to things like this (teams you love, consoles you love, etc.).
Starman
It would liven up the day in the shop I work if the customers started insulting each other over their choice of bread. “you do know Warburtons pad their sales figures by shipping more bread than is needed?! Yeah! Well gadsbys have way more exclusive loaves than anyone else!”
The Lone Steven
Besides, everyone knows Warburtons are the superior bread. Actually, that a lie. I use the cheapest bread as i freeze it. Damn, this joke’s failed. Er….
that’s carp?
Forrest_01
Nice to see that my bread exclusivity argument has some legs! ;)
The Lone Steven
Get the eff out, you toast lover! :P
Starman
“I consistently get 30 SPL (slices per loaf) from my supermarket own brand bread, you’d be a mug to byy the more expensive one that struggles to hit 25 SPL!”
JR.
Happy New Year bunimomike :) I think maybe it’s a bit of both. I agree that what we believe in can be cultural but it is the act of believing that I was referring to. What drives us to believe in something in the first place and how we react when those beliefs are scrutinised.
Who the hell knows? I just spent 20 minutes reading up on the differences between nature vs nurture and I’m even more confused than I was when I started ha
JR.
Team Warburtons all the way! 1080 cal 30 SPL
The Lone Steven
BLOODY WARBURTON SHILLS!
I liked TSA back when it was a one bread site. Now, it supports all the breads like a red district worker.
Warburton doesn’t even come in 64 bits! Own brand bread does! Own bread does what Warburton doesn’t.
MadBoJangles
Very tempted to get this.
I recently acquired an Xbone over the festive period and very nearly bought RotTR to go with it. Seems it might work out cheaper to pick it up on PC as can get preorders at around £21.
One of my friends is raving about it, which just pushes the “want it” factor up more too.
I might hang fire, playing through the Halo saga on Legendary first, then got Sunset Overdrive and Gears waiting in the wings too, perhaps the Xbone version will drop in price by then :)
Kennykazey
One of last years best games in my opinion, and it’ll probably be neat on PC as well.
I’m guessing the season pass isn’t included because the expansion hasn’t released yet, but it’s a bit weird to release it with no extra bits thrown in. Perhaps the ability to improve the fidelity is thought to be enough.