Thread 11979667

Why has nothing ever leaked about Donkey Kong Racing? Given it was initially announced in 2001 for a 2002 release, there must have been at least a rough early build and some concept art and so on.

It was you dumb shit. On Xbox.

>>11979674
That's Sabreman Stampede. Which grew out of Donkey Kong Racing, yes, but fundamentally is not Donkey Kong Racing.

As of right now we seem to have absolutely nothing of DKR's brief existence other than one piece of concept art and the initial 2001 CGI teaser.

>>11979674
>>11979679
Oh and also, the image you posted is neither Donkey Kong Racing nor its replacement Sabreman Stampede.

That's Diddy Kong Racing Adventure. A completely different game which was a rejected pitch and never officially announced.

https://www.mariowiki.com/Diddy_Kong_Racing_Adventure

You guys need to catch up on your DKVine/Kongversation lore. Get on my level

They advertised it on the back of GameCube console boxes

>>11979679
It sounds like DK Racing wasn't really worked on outside of the concept stages. We had tech demos like
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSLa5M8juyw
showing that Rare was serious about working on 6th gen consoles, but its likely that the project was just left on the backburner because Conker's Bad Fur Day, Star Fox Adventures, and Grabbed by the Ghouls became all-hands-on-deck projects, the latter two because of the increasing costs of game dev. Constant talks about an Activision/Microsoft buyout also probably made Rare apprehensive about working on another game with Nintendo IP, whats the point in dedicating time and effort to a project that might just end up being binned?

Could Rare have saved the Gamecube.
Okay, I know people have their gripes with Rare games on N64, but they put out 10 fully featured games, all of them with multiplayer modes and hours of gameplay.
Or would they have just made the same crap they made for xbox?

>>11980667
>Could Rare have saved the Gamecube?
No, mostly because their "dev-barn" (having one group of people work on one project and another group of people work on another project on the opposite end of the building) way of making games was getting increasingly unfeasible as game budgets kept going up as well as the risk of missing deadlines and pissing off your publisher. Something was going to have to give eventually.
>Or would they have just made the same crap they made for xbox?
Well, considering that Grabbed by the Ghoullies, Kameo: Elements of Power, and Perfect Dark Zero were supposed to be Gamecube titles...

>>11980667
>>11981252
They certainly would've helped.

It'd be easy to just say they'd release all those Xbox games as GameCube games instead, but personally I think one or two of them might've ended up getting cancelled or delayed to Revolution/Wii in favour of other projects.

If Nintendo had bought Rare outright, they would've been more directly involved with the studio, and they would've wanted a return on investment. That means new Banjo and DK games would become top priority. I personally think if Nintendo bought Rare then Banjo 3 and a new 3D Donkey Kong for GameCube would've been inevitable.

Then there's Conker's Other Bad Day, which leaked (I think via a trademark) in 2001 before the MS buyout. In our timeline, it was cancelled and ended up becoming Conker Live and Reloaded instead. But if Nintendo buys Rare, there's no need to remake Conker, so the sequel certainly stays in development.

None of this would've been enough to beat the PS2, but IMO a GameCube with Rare on board would have comfortably outsold the Xbox, and as a consequence probably gets more 3rd party support too.

>>11979667 (OP)
I wish I knew honestly