You may have noticed that Wallace and Gromit: Episode 2 didn’t make it to Xbox LIVE arcade this morning as originally announced by Major Nelson. If you didn’t know that thrilling fact-nugget consider yourself informed. But wait, there's more to this.
Major Nelson updated his announcement post and put one of those fancy HTML slash-thingies over the name of the Telltale Games episodic title, and said it has been delayed. We’re not exactly sure why it isn’t available -- we’ve put a word in with Telltale about it -- but at least you can play Sonic & Knuckles, right?
Also, to rub it in a bit -- as pointed out by 1UP -- all four episodes of the Wallace and Gromit series are available on the PC. Nyah-nyah!
[Update: A Telltale Games representative got back to us. "It was just a matter of miscommunication," the spokeperson told Destructoid. "We've got some special stuff in store for the game, and want to plan the timing of the launch around those initiatives. Rest assured that the game will be out on XBLA."]
[via 1UP]
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8:36 PM on 09.09.2009
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Because of what Telltale said themselves on the matter
If the series cannot survive on the PC, what's the use of continuing to release a non-money making franchise on a separate platform, and pay development costs/Microsoft?
All they said is that they do it on the PC and one other console and that they bounce between the Wii and XBLA. That's it. They even said that they're looking at PSN, but they "just haven't gotten there yet. Ultimately, we would like to be on every downloadable channel there is. We think that's the perfect place for our stuff to be"
How you derived frmo that segment that XBLA title availability is linked with PC sales is beyond me.
Any business with any business sense will continue to sell to a platform if that platform makes significant enough sales to continue warranting delivering to that platform. If their Wii sales go through the roof, but PC sales crumble, they would continue to make games for the Wii. Same thing with XBLA.
So, the only thing that would decide the destiny of Telltale's XBLA titles would be XBLA sales.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/a-tale-of-monkey-island-interview?page=3
And I don't know what Telltale promised, but it does seem to me if they are not making any money on the 360, they would stop paying the porting and license costs and quit porting the episodes.
It takes like a computer from 1995 to run these anyway.
It's simple business. If the series doesn't even sell well on it's target audience (PC adventure folk), then yes, they would pull the plug: because, what's the use of spending the money translating PC code to XBLA if it's not going to make any money?