Sony’s Japan studio was involved with the development of Bloodborne, so, I may be wrong here, but I wouldn’t expect to see it on Xbone. PC is still a fairly strong possibility, but then Demon’s Souls never made it to PC.

Instead, I find just the opposite is true, and from Square, a company that has recently begun to reinvest in the PC market by releasing some truly excellent PC versions of its games both recent and classic, to pull a stunt like this verges on madness. I cannot believe that the blood money Microsoft coughed up to get an “exclusive” title like Rise of the Tomb Raider outstrips the money Square could have made off PS4 fans and PC fans. Especially given that the last major release for the PS4 was what, the expansion to Bloodborne? Another “exclusive” that we know will appear, as almost all From Software games have, on the PC and Xbone eventually?

The point of this already too-long rant is that with the homogenization of hardware and the maturity of code bases we are seeing of late, we ought to be throwing our money at publishers who realize three markets is better than one or two. Instead, we see hardware manufacturers getting graspy trying to justify why I should purchase their console over any other, when that’s backwards. Given what consoles do nowadays, I would choose the console that provides me the best interface, the most power, and the fastest times switching between Netflix or Plex and playing a game. Win me over with competent hardware and I’ll stay for the games. Don’t expect me to buy hardware just for a game. That’s when you’ll lose me.

I am quite upset that the Windows-based version was delayed, not because additional time necessary to ensure a competent port, but to give a console I have not bought and will not buy an exclusive to bolster its flagging sales.

This is the worst part of it; a perfectly decent game has been sacrificed on the altar of avarice to a god which is already dead.

I am quite upset that the Windows-based version was delayed, not because additional time necessary to ensure a competent port, but to give a console I have not bought and will not buy an exclusive to bolster its flagging sales. A quite-packed release schedule early next year (and likely holdovers from this year’s holiday releases) means that it will have to be relegated to “oh yeah, Steam sale today” status rather than a full-price purchase. Sorry, CD and Square.

We need Setsuna. The world needs Setsuna. I need Setsuna. Get on it.

I’m sad that the game has been buried like this. I feel for the developers. I hear the people that played it really enjoyed it.

(In fact, looking back even further, the first Tomb Raider game back in the ’90s was supposed to be a Sega Saturn exclusive, and that version completely bombed. You’d think Crystal Dynamics would’ve passed that info along to SE that PlayStation owners enjoy their Tomb Raider)

I’m really looking forward to Project SETSUNA. It’d be nice to play a JRPG that hearkens back to the days of yore. I miss towns and world maps.