Happenstance

Been adding to my retro collection this week. Still a couple more to be delivered. Thanks again to Nando for the copies of Zelda and Metroid!

Well Chrono Trigger should do as one of my main games for Extra Life now anyway.

....God dammit it @Sheikah

I havent bothered to look up press releases or anything so I cant say for sure but the E3 trailer at least never announces a platform

Yes but over the past two weeks including the Retron 5 I have spent over £300 on retro stuff! I need to stop myself somewhere lol

No! Bad @Goron_3 P4G must be played!

Oh god im tempted to pay £60 for a copy of Chrono Trigger at the moment. Someone needs to talk me down!

Preordered my Playstation TV

Patrick didnt feel it was a sales failure, Square Enix did. This was widely reported back then. Im sure it wont sell as well on one platform as it would on multiple but there are obviously numbers we are not privvy to which would be the point where it would tip the scales to make it worth it. I would assume that along with whatever money MS gave Square Enix to make this exclusives, MS will also be paying for all the advertising as well which would probably make it a very attractive offer given that last years game was very well thought of but didnt sell what they hoped (and yes, the sales figures they were hoping for were unrealistic to begin with). Once again I am not saying any of this is a good thing. Just wondering if these are the reasons why such a deal would be made.

I thought the mechanics looked interesting but wasnt all that impressed with the locations or enemy designs.

Now you are going too far. Dont go blaming poor Lara for this! She apparently has a shit load of therapy bills that need paying.

I think it probably will come eventually but the way people who should know have been talking on twitter, this doesnt seem to be like a 6 month exclusive deal so we could be waiting a few years.

Im not on MS' side at all. I would prefer this to be a multiformat game and think its a crappy move from Square Enix. I just dont blame MS. Theres a difference.

Just reading the Giant Bomb article on it and Patrick mentions how Tomb Raider was originally considered a sales failure. I'd forgotten about this and even though the sales failure part was tied to Square Enix pinning their hopes on it making Max Payne 3's money back as well, this could go a long way to explaining why they felt the need to actually partner up with MS for this. You would assume they would probably have paid a big sum of money and probably be paying for all advertising as well which would bring costs down considerably.

I cant fault Microsoft for doing it. They are a business with a console that is still failing to sell what they need it to and this is a way to try and fix that. I would have no problem with Sony doing something like this either, its not their job to keep the rest of the gaming community happy. Crystal Dynamics are the ones who allowed it to happen.

Suprised this wasnt shown at the conference given how much people loved the other two.

Rumour has it that it is just a timed exclusive and the Ouya version will be coming in 2016.

From Crystal Dynamics Tumblr

We always get the trick phrasing though. Got it at E3 with Sony and the GTA V stuff as well. I mean I have an Xbox One so I wont have to miss out on the game but I would have prefered to play it on my PS4. Everything im hearing though seems to be saying that its an actual exclusive.

I wonder how carefully worded that was and its maybe a timed exclusive? MS would have to give a lot of money to get that just on Xbox given how much better games are selling on PS4.

Link for anyone wanting to watch it: http://www.twitch.tv/xbox It would be nice to get some more exclusives announced for the system. I would like to be looking forward to something other than Halo games!

Got my first ever boxed SNES game in the post today! lol. A suprisingly well looked after copy of Starwing with the box and manual that only cost me a couple of quid.

Someone on Reddit talking about the day they met Robin Williams

The problem for me is that if this does take off, I think it is possible it will collapse just as quick. With Sony and PS+ you just have one service that will offer games from multiple developers but if we have to start paying an EA subscription, an Activision subscription and so on then people just arent going to want that.