Rumour: Insomniac Turned Down Conker IP

6th March, 1 replies

Apparently, attempts at reviving the well-loved Conker IP hit a major road-block when Insomniac turned down the possibility to reboot the series. This is according to Reddit user Certain_Ability, whose claims have been backed up by others on Reddit who sought to verify his identity.

What he's basically claiming is that initially the company felt that the IP simply wasn't popular enough:

"So the Conker IP has been pretty much been stagnant since the Xbox version, and it’s kind of fallen by the wayside. With other IPs, management seems pretty chill in discussing new ideas, but for the longest time Conker was never really on the table for new projects. A lot of people around the office thought that MS didn’t have much faith in the Conker IP. From what I heard, a lot of people thought the style felt really dated, and that the crude humor of it felt too 90’s for modern audiences. That was just rumors and gossip from the staff, some of which have been with the company since the first Xbox came out, so I trusted what they said."

But then in 2014 things changed:

"All of a sudden, I became flooded with emails and design docs for a new Conker game. Basically, MS wanted to reboot Conker, and was shopping around for developers to make the new game. MS wasn’t comfortable developing it, and Rare DEFINITELY wasn’t making it."

Microsoft approached Insomniac (amongst others) to develop the reboot, but the developer turned down the offer because of the short development cycle Microsoft insisted on:

"For a while, it really looked like Insomniac would take on the Conker reboot, they were already doing third-party stuff for MS, and they had made a hit platformer series in the past.

However, Insomniac turned MS down too. Apparently MS wanted Conker to hit store shelves by the end of 2015, and Insomiac refused because of the short dev cycle. MS wanted Conker out the door really quickly, because they wanted to reintroduce audiences to a bunch of older IPs that MS were planning on rebooting for 2016-17, like Perfect Dark and Banjo."

Source:

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