And now we add another item to the “Microsoft is dumb” list:
#RiseOfTheTombRaider: Why is @Microsofts timed exclusive released same day as @Fallout 4? https://t.co/Pjbj4S2sWb pic.twitter.com/JCbEdrr2Nj
— CRAVE (@CraveOnline) November 9, 2015
Microsoft has paid out what can safely assume was a large amount of money to Square Enix in order to snag the timed exclusivity right to Rise of the Tomb Raider, but here’s where things get more than a little dumb: the game was given the release date of November 10th, 2015. That’s tomorrow, and is coincidentally the same date that Fallout 4 will be released, a hugely anticipated follow-up to one of the most popular games of all time. Rise of the Tomb Raider doesn’t have a chance of toppling Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic RPG, and if Rise of the Tomb Raider wasn’t a well-reviewed game that was the subject of a major exclusivity deal, then we’d all suggest that it had been sent out to die.