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Telltale Nabs Xbox 360 Publishing Licensor Agreement, Makes Us Curious
Confused at the headline? Understandable.
Just after announcing Jurassic Park: The Game has been moved from a later-this-month release into the fall, Telltale Games has announced a publishing licensor agreement for Xbox 360. A what now? At the moment, we don't know the motivation; Telltale isn't willing to talk about the reasons behind this move.
“Adding console support to our acknowledged expertise in digital downloads is another positive step in our long-term growth strategy,” said Telltale co-founder and CEO Dan Connors in the press release. “We are pleased to expand the size of our potential audience by encompassing the Xbox 360 console consumer and bring our vision of video gaming to them."
To date, Telltale has been laser focused on digital download platforms. This could signal Telltale moving into the retail space, though whether it's for anything more than issuing bundles of episodic adventures isn't known. Issuing a press release over the agreement may suggest bigger plans.
After being asked on Twitter, Telltale had nothing more to tell fans.
"No announcements on what's coming to the XBox 360 from us yet but we have some exciting stuff in store!" the company said, understandably cryptically. "Stay tuned!"
We don't really have a choice in the matter, so we will, Telltale, we will.
Confused at the headline? Understandable.
Just after announcing Jurassic Park: The Game has been moved from a later-this-month release into the fall, Telltale Games has announced a publishing licensor agreement for Xbox 360. A what now? At the moment, we don't know the motivation; Telltale isn't willing to talk about the reasons behind this move.
“Adding console support to our acknowledged expertise in digital downloads is another positive step in our long-term growth strategy,” said Telltale co-founder and CEO Dan Connors in the press release. “We are pleased to expand the size of our potential audience by encompassing the Xbox 360 console consumer and bring our vision of video gaming to them."
To date, Telltale has been laser focused on digital download platforms. This could signal Telltale moving into the retail space, though whether it's for anything more than issuing bundles of episodic adventures isn't known. Issuing a press release over the agreement may suggest bigger plans.
After being asked on Twitter, Telltale had nothing more to tell fans.
"No announcements on what's coming to the XBox 360 from us yet but we have some exciting stuff in store!" the company said, understandably cryptically. "Stay tuned!"
We don't really have a choice in the matter, so we will, Telltale, we will.
Telltale have released their games at retail before. The first two seasons of Sam & Max were disk based on the Wii. But that made sense for the wii, the extremely strict size limit for downloadable games on the console must be a real pain in the ass for telltale, so retail releases for the Wii made total sense. The 360 is fine for downloadable games though, so this is definitely a curious move. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
I've almost pulled the trigger on Back to the Future for the PS3 several times. If there's a chance it's coming to the 360, my gaming machine of choice, maybe I'll hold off just a little bit longer. Hmmm...
Disc based Jurassic Park confirmed?
Between this, and the delay of the PC/MAC version, it seems likely.
EDIT: Received the 'First' quest for this post, even though it's the tenth. :)
cool.
" Jurassic Park seems a cert for the 360. I could so BTTF coming soon after too. "Jurassic Park is already confirmed for 360 back when platforms were announced. Though the XBLA and PSN versions would not have come out at the same time as the PC version if not for the delay.
Back to the Future on 360 a possibility... I'm definitely interested as I would finally buy it then.
I do hope that they release BTTF on the 360. I was going to buy it on the PS3 once all the episodes were available, but now I don't see myself buying anything on the PS3 for a good long while.
Having said that it will probably be cheap as dirt on Steam in a couple months and that's most likely how I'll end up playing it.
" Maybe this will finally let them start putting episodic content on 360. "It'd be ridiculous if this was so they could release Episode 1 of any series on disc, and then support it in a timely fashion with the other Episodes as "DLC" to get around Microsoft's stupid submission process. Though that might not work anyway, and I'm just talking out of my ass.
Note that the PC version of Tales of Monkey Island got a retail release in the UK from Telltale themselves. It would be reasonable to assume that Telltale would want to do something similar to 360 versions. It might be dodging Microsoft's digital distribution rules as well.
I neverunderstood why so little of the Telltale stuff ended up on the 360. It seemed like an odd thing for sony to go out of their way to get exlusivity for, so that never seemed like the right explanation. I guess we'll find out soon enough what they have planned
I would imagine, given the timing of this announcement, that this is in response to the on-going drama with PSN. It's a shame as Telltale could be the first of many developers to start jumping from Sony's ship.
It would be nice if they brought BTTF to XBL. Then I would have to get off my FA to go in to town and buy PSN points cards since I wont be putting my CC number on my PS3 after it got all FUBAR!
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