Retail Version Of The Walking Dead Will Drop Dec 4th

Head of publishing Steven Allison told IGN, “What you're seeing is that new titles are showing signs of consumer transition to digital. Of the products that are most interesting to consumers right now, a couple of them are digital only, and not available to retail, like ourselves and possibly Minecraft. Minecraft did better than we did in the month, but I would say that Minecraft and Walking Dead did better than the rest of that NPD list. I don't know of any other digital games that can make that claim. But I think we're seeing a product transition as far as comfort. Those hardcore gamers are getting comfortable with digital, especially if it's not on store shelves.”

Telltale isn’t some mad-eyed revolutionary, thirsting for the end of boxed games. A retail version of The Walking Dead will be released after the final episode launches, and IGN has first news of the release date. Allison said, “We are currently committed to Tuesday December 4th, 2012 at retail on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America for the first season of The Walking Dead: The Game including all five episodes. European and other territories for retail release to be confirmed.”

He adds, “Just about every medium has made the transition to digital and we're going to continue to see more growth, probably at the expense of some retail sales. But I don’t think it will be like music, where retail for music just doesn't exist anymore. It’ll probably be more like DVDs and movies, where there's a pretty significant retail footprint for movies still, even though digital is really strong. I think we'll end up, in a few years, maybe 50-50.”

This tallies with Electronic Arts’ view that digital will overtake retail in two or maybe three years time.

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damn and I remember someone on bx said it was gonna be released in october[pic]
man I was really hoping to get to play this around halloween

damn and I remember someone on bx said it was gonna be released in october[pic]
man I was really hoping to get to play this around halloween

IM sad you can't play it for Halloween bro...

I've only played one.

Had me like

[pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] GIMME EP 2 NOW

So that means episode 4 & 5 will be out before hand?

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Ill be surprised if that happens

u know episodes 2 & 3 already came out right?

Episodes 4 & 5 will be exclusive to the retail version.

The season pass was for all 5 episodes.