Episode release on same day?
I personally would love this. I had the ending of episode 5 spoiled for me while I was on Youtube and I was looking up the episode 5 trailer. This is why I feel that the episodes should be released on all platforms the same day so it's harder to have the story spoiled. What do you think, should episodes release on all platforms the same day?
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They should (and I'm sure that Telltale themselves would love for all platforms to release simultaneously). But, sadly, it's not possible. Sony and Microsoft release the games on their platforms on different days. It would be great if they'd loosen their certification processes a bit by letting developers release the games on the platforms themselves once approved (or at least set the day, like with PC distributors like Steam and GOG.com). But that's not going to happen any time soon.
They should but theres a reason that they don't I don't know what it is but theres a reason.
I heard a while back that there's a reason for them not releasing it all on the same day. But some releases such as android can be a bit ridiculous when it's over a month after it releases on other platforms. I get why it's like this with Microsoft and Sony but it'd be nice to know why it takes so long on android. (Maybe it's the same situation as Sony and Microsoft?) I personally don't play it on an android but I can see how terrible it could be for some people when they have to wait so much longer than other people. It's bad enough waiting a couple days and not being able to go on the forums or Youtube without having a possibility of being spoiled. Ugh in a perfect gaming world I guess.
Telltale's Android releases have been released at the same time as iOS releases for a while now (the latest episodes of Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands have released for Android on the same day as the iOS release). The only reason why Android took so long at first is because it was a new platform for Telltale and there were teething pains as they got used to the platform (especially considering that Android has many different system variants that they have to target).
When Telltale first started out on iOS there was a long period of time (sometimes months, or sometimes (in the case of Sam & Max Season Three and Wallace & Gromit) not at all -_-) between the iOS releases compared the PC and Mac releases as well, but now that Telltale is used to the iOS architecture, the iOS versions are released during the same week as the other versions. Telltale's had several Android releases under their belt by this point, and since they're now releasing in the same week as the other versions, those initial teething pains while they learn the various Android architectures seem to be gone now.
Thanks for the info. I had no idea the android versions were coming out at about the same time. I haven't been playing the new games so my info may be a bit out of date.
Wait then how can Life is Strange episodes release on the same day on all platforms?
Probably because Square Enix is a major publisher with some serious sway. Sony and Microsoft are more likely to make special arrangements for a publisher that makes a major mark on their bottom line, rather than a medium sized developer, even a popular one like Telltale.
Maybe though, that's a sign that they might be willing to make the release date uniform for episodic developers in the future (it's unlikely, but not completely unheard of - Microsoft originally didn't let Telltale release their games as season passes on XBLA, but that changed when major publishers started using season passes as well).