It looks like Rise of the Tomb Raider may come to the PC but the game is not likely to appear on the PS4.
Previously, we reported that Phil Spencer revealed to Eurogamer that the Rise of the Tomb Raider has an "exclusivity timer" and that Crystal Dynamics are free to put the game at any platform should they desire it but he won't comment about it any further.
"When people want me to say, can you tell us when or if it's coming to other platforms, it's not my job," he explained. "My job is not to talk about games that I don't own. I don't own them building Tomb Raider on other platforms. I can't talk about the franchise in that way. I can talk about the deal that I have. I have Tomb Raider shipping next holiday exclusively on Xbox. It is [on] Xbox 360 and Xbox One. I'm not trying to fake anybody out in terms of where this thing is."
"What they do with the franchise in the long run is not [my decision]," he emphasised. "I don't control it, so all I can talk about is the deal that I have. I don't know where else Tomb Raider goes." The bigger question at this point is when it will move on, though? "The deal has a duration," is all that Spencer would say. "I didn't buy it. I don't own the franchise."
"People ask me how much did we pay. There are certain things that I'm just not going to talk about because it's a business deal between us and them. Obviously, the deal does have a duration. I didn't buy the property in perpetuity."
"I didn't buy the IP. I didn't buy the studio. It's not mine. Where this thing will go over time, we'll see what happens with the game. I don't own every iteration of Tomb Raider."
But it seems that a PC version of the game is more likely to happen than a PS4 one as Shakir Shlueika of GameNation has reported that Microsoft is talking to Crystal Dynamics about making the Tomb Raider franchise totally exclusive to Microsoft. GameNation speculated that Microsoft is using the Tomb Raider franchise to rival the Playstation exclusive franchise, Uncharted.
But until an official announcement has been made, Rise of the Tomb Raider is still an Xbox exclusive.
