Sorry, no Xbox Originals Conker or Jade Empire

by Dustin Burg { Feb 8th 2008 at 10:15AM }

We're sorry to burst the sixteen or so Xbox Originals fans who were eagerly anticipating the rumored downloadable versions of Conker: Live & Reloaded and Jade Empire, because they aren't releasing anytime soon.

Earlier this week we found out that new Conker and Jade Empire press materials mysteriously popped up on one of Microsoft's FTP websites, which made us jump to the conclusion that both games were headed to the land of Xbox Originals. But our speculation was a bit ... erm, wrong. We recently found out that the Conker and Jade Empire press materials were uploaded to to the FTP site per the request of trivia website Kwanzoo. You see, Kwanzoo will be launching new video game trivia in the next few weeks and in preparation, got in touch with Microsoft to request images of older Xbox titles. This is why the images were uploaded to the FTP press site, for trivia's sake.

So, no Xbox Originals Conker or Jade Empire, but look on the bright side. You won't have to even think about spending 1200 Microsoft points on either game and you have Xbox trivia to look forward to. See, not too bad now is it?

Tags: conker, conker-live-and-reloaded, jade-empire, rare, xbox-originals

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

AnOffday @ Feb 8th 2008 10:56AM

Look on the bright side. Now you can just go out and buy either of these games for less than the price of an Xbox original download, and get the disc, manual, and case, and not contribute to this stupid service.

baby sea tuna @ Feb 8th 2008 11:19AM

Right, because Gamestop's used game policies are far less stupid.

lysernix @ Feb 8th 2008 11:16AM

...and not risk having no access to your content unless signed into live should something happen to your Xbox, or if you wanted to play it on a different Xbox, or if you wanted to play it on your original Xbox, or if you wanted to loan it to a friend, or if you wanted it's spine to be sitting with the rest of your collection, or if you didn't want to take up precious GB of your hard drive space, or if you didn't want various bugs that appear in the downloadable version (*might also be available on disk?)...

JakubK666 @ Feb 8th 2008 5:33PM

@ Tuna

You know there are other shops besides Gamestop. There's always Ebay and if you're from UK, CeX sells Conker and Jade for £8 and £3 respectively.

todd @ Feb 8th 2008 11:32AM

boo hoo, did anyone really care or even download the originals?

jeromy @ Feb 9th 2008 4:52AM

I can't figure out why there should be any delay at all. Any Xbox original game that is compatible with the 360 should be able to be converted to a download in a matter of hours or days. This should not be a difficult software problem.

Then again, I can't figure out why it takes 30 seconds for my 360 to display the mere titles of the games I've downloaded...