Poor old Lara Croft can’t seem to catch a break. Aside from having her forename frequently mispronounced, the budding archaeologist always seems to find herself in a scrape. And she’s not set to break that spate of bad luck on the PlayStation 4, as publisher Square Enix has revealed that it’s working on a new Tomb Raider title for next generation platforms.
The sequel was teased at Comic-Con last week, but now Phil Rodgers, the man who’s in charge of the company’s Western arm, has confirmed the news in a candid blog post. “We are well into development on a next-generation Tomb Raider sequel,” he said, while reiterating the company’s commitment to blockbuster game production.
The Final Fantasy maker is currently refreshing its corporate structure, and Rodgers’ message was designed to allay fears. “In the future, we’ll offer gamers more choice, support more platforms, and try new things – but we’ll make sure that whatever the platform, we’ll always keep our focus on raising the quality bar,” he said. “We feel that that is what gamers should expect from a Square Enix game.”
It’s nice to see the firm being so open – let’s hope that it maintains the same mentality moving forwards. On the subject of the new Tomb Raider, though, we’re excited to see what Crystal Dynamics cooks up. We loved the most recent release, and can only imagine how pretty the sequel's going to look on PS4.
[source eu.square-enix.com, via vg247.com]
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i LOVED the tomb raider reboot best game i had played in a long time.
I love how Square Enix blamed Tomb Raider and Hitman for their shortcomings earlier this year but never mentioned the millions going into FFXIV and now FFXV plus kingdom hearts as well in development.
Tomb Raider and Hitman both sold near 5 million units that's not chump change lol
Now tomb raider gets a sequel lol.......uh Squeenix you just, uh facepalm
This just made my day. Tomb Raider is one of my favorite games to come out in a while. I just recently beat it almost a month ago and I can say with confidence that it was one of the best games I've played in a long time. The adventure was worth every cent.
Tomb Raider was one of the best games to come out this year. Definitely good news to hear that a sequel is on the way.
I must have been the only person that wasnt that impressed with the new Tomb Raider. So much hype! Didnt live up to it for me. Average story. Gameplay elements from various games. Im not saying it was bad. It was great, but just not what all the hype lead me to believe.
It'll probably also be on Xbox One and PC.
I absolutely LOVED the new Tomb Raider. For me it is probably the best game thtat came out this year. IMHO, It's better than other big games like Bioshock Infinite (which I also loved) and The Last of Us (which I still haven't finished and think is kinda overrated).
@JMC When you finish the last of us, come back and tell me tomb raider was better xD
I wonder how it'll play on Vita.
@MrSRArter “In the future, we’ll offer gamers more choice, support more platforms, and try new things" I think its safe to say that all SE games going forward will be multiplatform given that the Luminous Studio engine is being made for PC and then scaled down for consoles.
@Snorky
No problem but Tomb Raider hooked from the very first second I played it. I'm five hours in on The Last of Us and I honestly have few reasons to get back. Maybe it will be a lot better later, but for now, it's not better than Tomb Raider or Bioshock Inifinte. Both games hooked me so much that I finished each on 2 weeks. I have The Last of Us since launch but I don't feel as compelled to finish as I was with those other 2 games. Again, opinions...
@MrSRArter Of course, but we're a PlayStation site...
I still am yet to play this! Waiting for it to come toe Ps Plus soon....
The Last of Us is my game of the year but Tomb Raider isn't far behind. I really enjoyed it.
Playing it on PC with highest settings (and the fancy tressFX hair) was awesome.
been thinking of getting the first game (reboot). Anyone play it and think it's great?
I was a little nervous this might not happen after the idiots at SquareEnix placed some of the blame for lost profits on this game and not the real problem which is the terrible job its done with Final Fantasy. Glad I can now look forward to a sequel.
Woohoo!. Loved the last one.
@Gamer83 SE has problems but it's not with FF. FFXIII and XIII-2 have sold 10+ million copies worldwide. If you are talking about FFXIV (the first version), then yes, SE took heavy losses on that one, but it didn't contribute to their losses this financial year (it was released in 2010). SE put in more money developing Tomb Raider than any FF. At the peak of FFXIII's development there were only around 200 employees working on it, while western triple A games can have up to 1000 people working on it (COD, Assassin's Creed etc). Tomb Raider was SE's triple A title to compete with those franchises. People like to rag on SE for saying Tomb Raider didn't perform well when it sold like 3 million copies, but the sales # alone do not make a successful game. It's about the revenue vs. cost ratio, and SE clearly bet the bank on Tomb Raider. IMO, SE still makes quality games: Hitman Absolution, Tomb Raider were great, Theif and Murdered Soul Suspect looks promising as well. The problem is that their sales/marketing division, and things like retail and media relations are sorely lacking compared to companies like EA, 2K, Ubisoft. In today's competitive environment, you need more than just a good product to make money. I hope Square Enix Europe and America catches up fast, otherwise, they can spend twice as much as other companies and it still would matter.
If you can't profit off a 3 mil+ selling game, you're running a garbage company, period. I hope the studios that make these games get out from under SE before it's too late.
@Gamer83 Say a movie studio spends $10 million making a movie, if the movie is really successful they might make $50 million (not bad, but not really the kind of revenue big movie studios are looking for). However, if they put $200 million into a movie, say, The Avengers, they can expect to make about $1 billion ($1.5 billion for The Avengers). The same thing is happening here. You can't make big money without investing BIG. Yes, you can argue, why don't SE invest $10 million instead of $200 million and guarantee a profit. It's simple, Square Enix has repeatedly stated that they aim to be an International Triple A publisher. The kind of spending done on Tomb Raider is currently the industry standard when it comes to developing Triple A games. If you treat Tomb Raider as a Triple A game then there is no reason not to expect it to sell well over 3 million copies, so I think SE's expectation is fair. Besides SE didn't say they didn't make a profit with Tomb Raider. they said it under performed. Which would be like the movie John Carter, considered to be a big flop, making $280 million on $250 million budget. In any case, remember SE is still really young as an international Publisher. Heck, FF VII was localized and published by Sony outside of Japan. Even in the PS2 days, some of their own games were published by Ubisoft (not FF of course) outside of Japan. My view is that no company gets it right on their first try (Hitman Absolution and Tomb Raider are the first games that SE really tried hard to promote that's not developed by SE Japan). You probably don't care much for SE's games, so it doesn't matter to you if they fail, but I still love their games and really hope they succeed.
@heero2001
They blamed Tomb Raider for their losses and if they were expecting CoD numbers, again, they're clueless. Now, I don't want Square to disaapear but if it keeps on the current trend it will and with it goes Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal, which means the end of Tomb Raider and Deus Ex which I don't want. Best case scenario is this next Tomb Raider performs better than the last but because it won't be CoD numbers SE flips its sh*t and sells Crystal Dynamics to a publisher that knows what it's doing. This way SE stays around as does Tomb Raider but with even better possibilities, everybody wins.
Only for Square Enix to sell millions and call it a pathetic number
I hope Tomb Raiders 2 SP will be as good, if not better than Tomb Raiders (2013)
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