by franzlska
The other day, in the GB Discord, someone noticed that Oddworld New 'n' Tasty has come out on quite a few consoles, with a whopping ten platforms to its name (actually twelve, but at the time the page was missing the game's mobile ports.) This began a short discussion between myself, disruptivenoise, and niflhe wondering what game holds the highest number of release platforms.
After a "quick" stroll through the most noteworthy franchises in gaming, the highest selling games of all time, obscure platform libraries, and any other possible contenders which came to mind, we had assembled a seemingly accurate list of just under 100 games which had at least 13 releases (chosen semi-arbitrarily, as it seemed like a good cut-off point looking at the titles we had assembled at that point.)
Below is that list, in order from least to most releases, alongside a statistic of platforms-per-year-since-release and any thoughts about the game and it's ports which come to mind.
Note: this number is going specifically by GB wiki specifications, including what the wiki considers a platform and separating games where the wiki considers them two different titles. That said, if this list happens to be missing anything, feel free to bring it up.
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13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place 0.382 P/Y
13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place 0.481 P/Y
13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place 2.167 P/Y Even being a more recent game, this is a pretty ridiculous P/Y ratio, especially for a game that was... fine. If anything, I almost feel like it's low-balling a bit. I could easily see labeling the game's Netflix release as a Browser port. This was also originally the most recently released game to grace this list.
13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place 0.813 P/Y Apparently this came out on the Ouya. Y'all remember the Ouya?
13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place 1.857 P/Y
13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place 0.433 P/Y
13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place 1.083 P/Y Not many visual novels on this list. Tragic.
13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place 1.444 P/Y
13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place 1.625 P/Y
13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place 1.625 P/Y I suppose 13 platforms was the sweet spot for TellTale Games.