Firstly there is no single game in existence that can justify the price of a console. Would you actually pay £400 for Uncharted 4 plus the additional monthly PS+ fees to play online, if you owned a PS4 already or you would you pay it for a console just to play one game and never be used for anything else? Of course you wouldn't, no truly sane person (at least one with a concept of monetary value) would.
Games can attract people to buy certain consoles but that would with intention of using it for multiple games over several years. There is no reason to believe that RotTR is not one of those. Tomb Raider is a very popular I.P, add that to the fact that the majority of average households do not want and will not spend the money required on PC that can run the game at high resolutions and 60fps+ (it's extremely demanding) it does in fact make the Xbox One an attractive buy, as long as the games already on it (and possibly upcoming) are appealing to them.
I really do wish that people on these boards removed their fanboy glasses, Xbox One games being shared on PC or even full multi-platform, whether that's timed exclusivity or same day release, does not make the slightest difference to average Joe public. The largest seller of consoles, by far, is peer pressure, if little Timmy's mates have PS4's he obviously going to ask Santa to get him a PS4 as well. People are sheep (not just Nintendo fans :p) and they follow the flock, the trick is to get your product into the flock before your competition.
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