Telltale engine doesn't support PlayStation ... yet

Ha! I love hearing the Lazy Developer excuse. These developers are working their ass off to make fun, reliable products... and trying to make money. If the PS3 does not represent a worthwhile investment of time and effort, then that's Sony's problem... not Telltale's.

If I were Telltale, I'd work on getting the game Engine to run on the iPhone before I put a single PS3 developer on the project.

No worries though. If you have a PS3, chances are you already have a PC on which you can enjoy Telltale's excellent episodic efforts.

Or they just haven't come up with a game that they WANT to simultaneously release on the PSN. Perhaps they'll change that by the time episodic Day of the Tentacle gets announced.

@JayVe:

basically, your saying that no one on PSN would enjoy a Point & Click adventure?

Telltale has said, numerous times, they WANT to develop for the PS3. Telltale just hasn't decided to make the PSN the one other DLC system to use.

@Billop

I'm saying developing games for a platform is a cost benefit analysis that takes a number of factors into consideration such as install base, game sales, attach rates, and product adoption rate.

There are more iPhones in the world than there are PS3 systems. (http://kotaku.com/5287694/iphone-install-base-vs-console-install-bases) The iPhone is a cheaper platform for which to develop. Sony charges publishers for Digital Distribution (http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/03/20/sony-now-charging-publishers-for-ps3-downloadable-content/).

There are a good number more reasons to approach iPhone development for adventure titles... games that don't require the PS3's awesome processing power.

Also, I can't stand the iPhone. I'm a Pre guy, but Telltale would be remiss to not put effort into porting their games to the platform. Even though I personally loathe the iPhone, it is good business to write software for it.

Telltale is a small company with limited resources. The move is logical for them. PC, which has the most friendly development environment of any platform and works well with the team's history and experience (most of them are former Lucas Arts Adventure employees). Jumping to the 360 is a simple move given how similar they are. The Wii then goes next, mainly due to install base. The PS3 being last.

Developers don't have an infinite amount of money. Even if they were willing to put the time into the PS3, they have to wait for the cash to come in before making the move. Learning how to use the PS3 tools isn't free, it's expensive. Telltale chose to focus their resources on the easier to understand systems and the game itself before they were willing to divert manpower just to port games to another platform.

This is why the "lazy developer" folks will never work in the financing field, they'd bankrupt the company in a week.

They're episodic DLC games, what do you expect?

I don't think it was ever touted as being Unreal in quality, so I'm not sure where you got that idea.

Anyway, I'd love to get some of these on the PS3 when they get their act together.

Yes, because Sam and Max would certainly benefit from Pixel Shaders 3.0 and normal mapping.

/sarcasm

Fun fact: These games are usually somewhere between 70MB-120MB.

Unreal Tournament 3, on the other hand, is 8GB for a multi-player only game.

Waitasec... you WANT these games, but are bored by the Wii... where these games are available?

I have a simple solution for you!

You wouldn't be 'bored by Wii' if you purchased some of these fine adventure games. :D

Been waiting to buy the Sam and Max stuff for a VERY long time. The console (and PS3 in particular due to it's mouse support) makes it a very good platform choice.

It's the only thing in Wii/360 that interests me, that I can't get on PS3.

TellTale, you make it and they will come....