Telltale went from being quiet on the Switch, to showing quite the wave of support. Now we're left wondering what isn't on the table for Switch! The gang over at NintendoOn had the chance to ask Telltale just that, and Telltale's VP David Bowman sat down to share his perspective.
NintendOn: During the lesson you talked about Telltale history and the many collaborations had with partners in the industry: can you tell us how do you fell about Nintendo and the Switch?
David Bowman: I think the platform is wonderful: anything that allows people to have mobility and flexibility in how they play and where they play – I’m all in favor of that. This is a really cool and accessible piece of hardware, that allows people to play the way they wanna play, so developing for it makes perfect sense for telltale games. We have projects heading towards it right now – we’re taking our back catalogue right now, individually one by one moving it over. As long as our memory profiler works on it, we’re going to port it over and make it ready to play.
NintendOn: Can you tell us which game are going to be released on Nintendo Switch? We’ll be able to play The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Guardian of the Galaxy in the near future?
David Bowman: That is one of our goals – the reason I can’t answer easily is because we have only so many people in the building and every time we want to take some of our catalogue and move it to a new platform that takes a period of time. We’ve done the technology portion of it and now this takes to the production people, the people who that have to rearrange content to make sure it works well on the platform… they are working now – that is happening at the same time we’re continuing to make our traditional games in our traditional platforms. So is a matter of time: we believe in the platform, we think it’s good and it makes financial sense for us to do it.
It's also worth noting that Bowman said there aren't any plans for a Switch-exclusive game, since the company's mission is to release games across multiple platforms and reach as many consumers as possible. The one way Telltale would be open to an exclusive game is if Nintendo themselves reached out to try and make it happen.
from GoNintendo
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