Crystal Dynamics' decision to spread out the release of Rise of the Tomb Raider is a brilliant move as it hits the market at all the right times on each platform. Here's why.
Jason Dietz: "We reveal the past year's best and worst video game publishers (based on their 2025 releases) in the 16th edition of our annual Game Publisher Rankings."
I was just going to say this, their biggest and top rated game here is TLOU2 for PC….it’s embarrassing.
Even Ubisoft and EA are ahead
Kind of surprised Nintendo is pretty low aswell, their biggest game is also a rerelease with the Switch 2 version of TotK.
That’s what happens when you start shutting down your own studios and forget what actually made you matter in the industry in the first place. Sony used to set the standard — now it feels like they’ve lost that identity. And if they decide to walk away from the PC market too, that’s going to be another huge mistake — that platform is only growing, and ignoring it now would just put them even further behind.
@christopher:” Take note, Sony, you're falling behind by a lot.”
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Why single out Sony? Microsoft didn’t do any better than the year before 5th same as Sony 9th and they have acquired activision and other mayor titles that have boosted their score massively from a 9th and Sony a 4th the year before the acquisitions.
Sony does need to do better without a doubt and I do hope they do take note but not the note of buying publishers is the way to succeed.
1. Microsoft didn't get worse.
2. Sony got way worse.
3. Because Sony needs the criticism the most considering their publishing output this generation has been propped up by last gen ports and third-party developers for the most part.
1Victor,
I don't wanna speak for Christopher, but like most of us we recognize that Sony's output this Gen has been way below their own standards.
Also Sony did buy a fair amount of Devs, I know you will say they were not publishers, and don't compare in size, but they had their fair share of Aquisitions, including the very well established Bungie.
The overall point is with their stellar first party track record of the past, they should not be going down, they are singled out because they are some of the best videogame devs/publisher on the planet...no matter what reasons we attribute to the situation, they are moving in the wrong direction... period.
Its widely accept that Sony this generation has been underwhelming. We've had more peripheral releases, controller variants, PS5 accessories than games it feels like. The exclusives were also PS4 and what little output they have put exclusively on PS5 is nowhere near as memorable as what came in every generation before that.
This isn't a Sony hate post but anyone who's older and has been around for a long time gaming will agree that PS5 is by far Sony's worst generation. As much as Xbox is in the gutter, I pray the do bounce back in the hope we get Sony to wake up again.
If you want to critique MS... you are doing so towards their management. The games output and their hardware have been much better than PS this gen. Sadly... people still hold a grudge against XB because of MS. Thankfully i am not that petty... I've been enjoying their games output in the drought of PS. And add in some NS1/2 games as well to balance things out. Things will change for me once Wolverine hits, and I start using my 5 more. That one I'm looking forward to. And the Marvel fighter... I'm not a GTA player so that has no bearing on my view of things.
Big part of that has been the live service push resulting in cancellation or flop after flop but when they put out the games their fans want we get amazing stuff like astro bot
Leadership really screwed the pooch trend chasing
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Well I apologize I was wrong about not doing worse but my statement of Microsoft getting a boost still stand 🤷🏿
Well OBSCURED unlike you I’m honorable enough to recognize when I’m wrong and apologize.
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@ The software you know there’s no comparison between what Microsoft acquired and what Sony acquired that’s why you tried to get ahead of the conversation, yes we all know Sony can do better than what they have done this gen but they inhaled the poison GAS they thought would bring money for years but we make sure they got the message and quite a few games got cancelled you know as well a hit like that take years to be corrected and by now they hopefully will have taken steps away from the GAS and slowed their approach to them.
You will say anything when you are in denial that your hardware is dead and nobody wants your platform. Good luck with Helix because nobody will buy it.
But... but... the garbage-mongers always tell us that Square Enix is in trouble! 😂
Square doesn't help that it fear mongers itself with ridiculous 'goals' that they can't reach and then they proclaim failure if they don't reach it. They're quite freaking profitable and people act like they're dying.
Keep in mind that these "proclamations" are usually third-hand bad translations from somedude who was at the investor conference, posted on Twitter, and picked up by press and youtubers like they were gold, and then when the official translation comes out, they're much softer statements, but at that point, the damage is done.
to be very fair
being number one on these things does not indicate how "well" their games do selling wise.
The Tomb Raider developer said the cuts will impact development personnel and operations staff.
No one escapes fate.
From a business perspective it's certainly a good move but that's also what worries me the most. If these practices where a whole fanbase is being left out on purpose turn out to be more profitable than a normal launch publishers will make timed exclusive deals on a regular basis. In my opinion, PS4 users shouldn't pay the full price for the game unless it has enough extra content to justify it.
'A brilliant move as it hits the market at all the right times...'
That had me scratch my head XD
Edit: the deal is what it is not arguing about it but saying that it hits the market at all the right times sounds really silly. I'm sure many xbox fans will also agree even if like me they probably don't care that much about 'the market'
What?
So... not being able to collect money from up to 70 percent of potential buyers for anywhere from 6-12 months is a good idea?
So instead of getting AHEAD of Uncharted 4, it now is going to ask for $60 for a year old game when Uncharted 4 will have been out for 6 months itself, thereby able to undercut it with $30-40 sales at launch (and through the holiday season) is good? On the PS4 of all consoles? Who is the average PS4 user going to choose? Uncharted or Tomb Raider?
That's like saying what average XB1 user going to choose between Halo and say MGS: TPP. Gee I wonder which is going to be chosen more.
That even the date it is launching it is going up against Fallout 4 is good?
...and if you assume people with PS4's are going to enjoy paying full price for that year old game is a problem, and it WILL be for MANY, then to bring them on board one would think you would need to lower the price... which means instead of selling it to the vast majority of potential buyers at full price this year, it would be better to sell it for LESS in order to ATTEMPT to garner SIMILAR sales a year later is good? Oh yeah, and with Steam sales, PS4 users are going to see discounts on both the PC AND the XB1 version, and wonder why are they paying $60 when other versions are going for as low as $10-15 and feel confident they are making a good purchase? Seriously look at how quickly Tomb Raider was discounted sub $20 on PC.
Sheer brilliance? More like absolute incompetence.
People can spin and spin and spin until they are dizzy, but there is no way in hell they'll make nearly as much money with the idiotic decision they made.
They got a check from Microsoft, but they are LOSING money on the deal... BOTH in terms of TOTAL money received, but ALSO the fact that a good portion of that money won't be in their bank accounts THIS year, but NEXT year. It's a simple concept, time value of money.
Wow, simply wow.
screwing over you fanbase for cash is retarded not brilliant