A recent report by a Twitter user revealed that microsoft paid Square Enix about $100 million to make Rise of the Tomb Raidera limited-time exclusive game. The second game in the legendary Tomb Raider series, which tells the story of Lara Croft and is “Reboot”, was exclusive to Xbox One and Xbox 360 on the console side for approximately a year since its launch on November 10, 2015. A few months after the game was released, its appearance on the PC side created great uncertainty about whether the game would come to other platforms and caused some controversy.
Rise of the Tomb Raider costs Microsoft a lot of money
Although one of the first things that comes to mind when we think of consoles is the special games that have appeared on these consoles, it was one of the rare cases when a sequel to a brand that has appeared on more than one platform only appeared exclusively on one platform. While the Xbox side was still struggling with the xbox one’s awkward release period, Square Enix’s special deal for Rise of the Tomb Raider, which will be released on November 10, 2015, was a very positive step for its consoles and limited the second game in the series. There was one thing the Microsoft side didn’t calculate. Rise of the Tomb Raider was coming out on the same day as Fallout 4, a new game from Microsoft-owned Zenimax Media, bethesda.
Facing fallout 4, one of the most popular games of its era, Rise of the Tomb Raiderhad a really challenging time in its first months. The game, which did not even make the top 10 of its bestseller list of the month it was released, was a huge success in the future despite the difficulties it faced during the release period and sold approximately seven million units, but the Microsoft side is said to have been very harmful to this deal. Recently, former Square Enix employee Fabien Rossini said he helped negotiate the Tomb Raider deal with Microsoft on LinkedIn –via a Twitter user– and that the deal was worth about $100 million.
With this agreement, the Microsoft side may have wanted to make the second game of Tomb Raider, the only and largest competitor in PlayStation’s Uncharted series, exclusive to its console, offering an alternative to its players and adding new users to its structure. The giant company, which has been damaged by the unfortunate departure of business and the low-tempo output of Tomb Raider; Now it seems that he has found the solution by buying the game studios directly. The company, which owns some of the most famous studios in the gaming world, such as Bethesda, has made major changes in the policies it has followed in the gaming world, regaining the love of its users.
