This is the kind of title that would hit harder later on the consoleвЂ™s lifetime. Secondly, the console instalbase is not that big yet. Many people have not played the original, not even the DS one, and the franchise isnвЂ™t as established as those you mention. WellвЂ¦ First, this is mainly a console game IP, unlike Yoshi and Wario, who have instalments on both. Diddy Kong had appeared in Double Dash and Mario Kart Wii. Diddy Kong was taken out of Mario Kart 7 and 8 because of Diddy Kong Racing 2.It sounds like Diddy Kong Racing 2 will be revealed sometime in 2015, and released that same year. Nintendo purposely held off from showing Diddy Kong Racing 2 at E3 this year to avoid sabotaging the excitement around Mario Kart 8.Characters such as Mallo (Pushmo) and Rusty (RustyвЂ™s Real Deal Baseball) were also added as racers to fill out the roster. Tanabe thought that the concept of lesser known Nintendo characters вЂњfighting to be NintendoвЂ™s big starвЂќ could prove to be interesting for Diddy Kong Racing.Tanabe was the producer of DillonвЂ™s Rolling Western, and he liked the idea of having a roster of lesser known Nintendo characters. Kensuke Tanabe, the producer of Donkey Kong Country Returns and Tropical Freeze, pitched the idea of Dillon (from DillonвЂ™s Rolling Western) to be one of the racers in the game.Diddy Kong Racing 2 started up development for again (this time for Wii U) due to the amazing sales of Donkey Kong Country Returns and Mario Kart Wii.Diddy Kong Racing was well known for letting players ride karts, hovercrafts, and planes. Nintendo asked Monster Games to work on Pilotwings because they were impressed with the flight/airplane mechanics in MonsterвЂ™s DKC Racing prototype.It was also cancelled because Diddy Kong Racing DS didnвЂ™t sell as well as the original N64 game. The Wii Diddy Kong Racing was cancelled due to Donkey Kong Barrel Blasts low sales.

The animal vehicles came from the idea of riding animal buddies in the Donkey Kong Country series. The animal transformation vehicles idea in Excitebots (2009) came from Diddy Kong Racing 2 prototype.

Diddy Kong Racing 2 began as a prototype in 2006.

This is why Monster Games ported Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and worked with Retro Studios on DKC: Tropical Freeze.

Retro Studios and Monster Games have been collaborating on Diddy Kong Racing 2.

As this Reddit thread has pointed out, the information comes fromВ a blog created yesterday that is still using a domain. Nintendo was apparently set to show it E3, but decided against it as they thought it may damage sales of Mario Kart 8. The rumour states that both Retro Studios and Monster Games are currently working on Diddy Kong Racing 2. The internet is no stranger to rumours and the latest one involves Diddy Kong Racing.

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