Age of Conan Not Hitting Xbox 360 Until 2009

Find out what’s going on with the Xbox 360 version at the jump.

“Development on the Xbox 360 version is not our key priority as there are a massive amount of PC gamers already playing the game, and we rightly have the focus on them. While there is a dedicated specialist project team working on Xbox, the PC version will remain our top priority for now.

If anything I think that the console version is greatly benefiting from the many updates and improvements we are constantly making to the PC version, and the launch issues we had will only serve to make the Xbox version a much better experience.

Seeing how a console and a PC is inherently very different in control input, HD space, patching cycle, available memory and so on, there are naturally many challenges involved in this work, and while we have overcome many there are more to go, not just from a design and tech standpoint, but also from business, community and marketing. The time will come for MMO games, or similar experiences, to do great on the consoles though, and hopefully Conan will be one of the pioneers in that regards. “

Jargen said that as of a possible release date, “We have never given a date on the release as far as I know, merely saying after the PC version, and probably with a year or more, so no Conan on Xbox in 2008;) As for stating an exact date; we will for sure come back with more details as soon as we are ready for it.”

[Funcom: Xbox 360 Age of Conan won’t release for another year, isn’t our key priority right now]