Duke Nukem to XBLA a possiblitiy

Kotaku has been busy pouring over the 3D realms forums and has found a few interesting quotes from their staff:

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You'd be surprised what they've turned down. Don't just assume MS will want it just because you like it, and it's popular. Hate to sound defeatiest, but it's not as easy as "send it to Micorosoft and get it on there". It's a rather complicated procedure, and MS is fairly picky about what goes on there.
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Sorry to sound so defeatist, but individual users won't do much of anything. Now if you could get something on the order of a million people to do the same thing, that might be different, but talking to one person like that isn't going to do anything.

Besides, if you can think of it, they already have - I'd bet on it. Plus as I said above, we've already talked about it ourselves. I talked about this yesterday with George, he's all up for the idea, but we don't have the time to do the port ourselves, plus there's the issue of whetther Microsoft would really want it. Don't just assume they would, there's a big submissions procedure to go through. Plus their release schedule is booked solid for quite awhile now, even if we delivered it to them today, I would imagine it wouldnt' come out for awhile anyway.

Looking through the thread, the most promising quote to me is this one:

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It's already been discussed here. Whether it happens or not I can't say. It's ultimately up to Microsoft as to whether they want it or not.

It seems to me that if it's just up to MS to give it the OK, then they'd better get on it as I'm sure that Sony, trying to get their own system up and running would be only too happy to see this happen.

You can check the thread here, and the kotaku article here.

administrator – Mon, 2006 – 10 – 02 15:30

I do not want this tainting

I do not want this tainting my 360

Mon, 2006 – 10 – 02 22:49

re: Duke Nukem

I'd be more than happy to see this make it to XBLA, but I'm hoping for a 400 point price tag!

Also note that it isn't a case of they want to build it and Microsoft is saying no, it's a case of they want MS to do the port and MS is saying they are too busy.

Tue, 2006 – 10 – 03 14:32

don't worry it'll take 5+

don't worry it'll take 5+ years to develop this port

Tue, 2006 – 10 – 03 19:52