An interesting thread popped up over on the 3D Realms forums about bringing Duke Nukem 3D to Xbox Live.

Tons of fans want the game on their 360, especially after seeing 3D shooter grand-daddy Doom pop-up on Live last week, but the staff of 3D Realms point out that just because there is a demand for a game doesn't mean it will be met.

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.

So there you have it, 3D Realms sounds interesting in getting their game on Live, but Microsoft is booked and not exactly beating down their doors.

Duke 3D for Xbox Live Arcade [3D Realms Forums, thanks Karsten]

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