Age of Conan still in development for 360

By Ellie Gibson Published 22 January, 2009

"Small" but "dedicated" team working on it.

Age of Conan game director Craig Morrison has confirmed Funcom is still working on an Xbox 360 version of the MMO.

"There is a small, dedicated team working on the Xbox platform at the moment," he said, speaking in our live text interview.

"We still plan on having a 360 version of the game at some stage but I'm afraid I can't go into specifics beyond that at the moment," Morrison said.

It doesn't sound likely the MMO will make it to Microsoft's console any time in the immediate future. "It is a very technical task for a game like ours," observed Morrison.

The 360 version of Age of Conan was first mentioned back in December 2006. The PC version was released last May, but Funcom has yet to offer a launch date for the console game.

In the meantime, catch up with all the latest Conan chat by reading the full live text interview.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • TheJuriel #1 3 years ago

    Oh, I thought AoC had died off and shut down...

  • Vistrix #2 3 years ago

    AoC is a great game, it just didnt deliver on most of its promises.

    But really, does anyone care about a console version? Id prefer it if they'd just 100% focus on delivering quality updates on the PC version.

    Forget the 360 version.
    Edited by 1 at 22/01/09 @ 16:01

  • iokthemonkey #3 3 years ago

    I actually think the PC version is simply a stepping-stone for Funcom and the console market has always been their prime goal.

  • louyfitz #4 3 years ago

    Conan for 360 doesn't particularly excite me tbh, but console MMOs do in general.

    My money is on APB for the console MMO revolution, looks amazing from whats been shown so far, and if it is anything like Crackdown then they might aswell take my money now, lol.

  • andywilkie35 #5 3 years ago

    I agree with louyfitz, Conan isn't one for me but I'm really up for a console MMO

  • Freek #6 3 years ago

    Why bother? The thing already flopped once.

  • mechamonkey #7 3 years ago

    Did noone play Everquest Online Adventures on the PS2, it was ace!

    Anyway I honestly never expect this to be released.

  • paulf #8 3 years ago

    @ vistrix - AoC is a good game up to level 20 then after that just becomes dull and boring, it needed another couple of years dev time i reckon

  • rodpad #9 3 years ago

    Of course this isn't coming out. It's out of touch shareholder pleasing nonsense.

  • AOFanboi #10 3 years ago

    Doesn't PSO predate EQA though? And FFXI is relatively popular in its PS2 incarnation.

    When AoC was supposed to be the "only" next-gen console MMO there was a point, but now there will be lots of competition when they eventually release it. So it really needs to ckick ass - and the PC game really doesn't.

  • davisorle #11 3 years ago

    AoC is an amazing MMO which made some huge wrong steps through the updates and kept loosing ppl instead of keeping the starting waves till they attract more ppl. It's stunning. The gameplay was refreshing and the fatalities gorgeous tbh you SO love the splatters on this MMO but no end lvl gaming material at all almost for a long time.. They kept letting ppl exploiting for ages. I had 350 ppl in my guild, wouldn't allow exploits and smaller guilds had better gear cause of that lol. Sad but true.In general Funcom sucks cause they fucked up something that could of gone GREAT and nothing like this.

    My bet is they delay the 360 cause they see the game die on the PC platform already so they wouldn't wanna loose money on the 360 Version too. Eventhough if you think about it it could be the best console MMO since there is no WoW on a console yet so it could actually manage to do something good on the 360.. you never know tbh with that shit when it comes to the Genre.

    Once again too bad.. I left this game the same way i left Lotro. Out of the blue, and went back to WoW..... Sucks and im bored of the same. I miss the graphics of AoC damnit :p BLIZZ DO SOMETHING WITH THE DAMN VISUALS IN WoW IF WE WILL KEEP PLAYING IT PLOX!!!

  • 4thVariety #12 3 years ago

    What's the current size of an AoC installation again? Somewhere in the vicinity of 20GB? That's going to be one hell of a job fitting it on a DVD. If MS really wants this they better allow some progressive HDD installs and/or multidisc version. The poor schmuck having to make the whole game playable with a controller only also gets my pitty, MS sure won't allow it to be a mouse + keyboard only game.

  • actionfitz #13 3 years ago

    "We still plan on having a 360 version of the game at some stage but I'm afraid I can't go into specifics beyond that at the moment,"

    - erm. because we havent finished the PC verison yet...