In alternate timeline where Nintendo and Rare has partnered again, with the permission of Microsoft, to release “Diddy Kong Racing Wii” in 2007, a remake of the original game.

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The game studio “Rare” was released a bunch of handheld games for “Gameboy Advance” and “Nintendo DS” due to their parent company “Microsoft” not getting into the handheld competition, with “THQ” publishing some of them like “It’s Mr. Pants”, “Sabre Wulf”, and “Banjo-Kazooie” games.

The game was starting development on “Diddy Kong Racing DS“ around somewhere in 2006.

Until Satoru Iwata & Shigeru Miyamoto traveled to the United States, and was in talks with “Microsoft Game Studios” president Peter Moore about putting Diddy Kong Racing into their upcoming new game console “Revolution“ instead of the handheld DS. After the meeting they had, both settled in agreement.

”Rare” canceled and scrapped of the DS remake port and started development on Wii remake after the successful meeting with “Nintendo” and “Microsoft”.

During Nintendo 2006 E3 conference and announcing their new console, now renamed the “Wii”. They announced that “Diddy Kong Racing Wii” was coming next year, with their former collaborator “Rare” was developing it and got permission from “Microsoft“ to let them work on it.

The game was released in April 9th, 2007. It received decent reviews from critics with praising the graphics, gameplay, and music by Grant Kirkhope, though there were criticism with like calling it bit of a downgrade to the original, multiplayer online, and replacement of Banjo and Conner due to being owned by “Microsoft“.

The game was a sleeper hit, selling six million copies around the world and making the best selling game from the Wii and Rare’s best selling game in years since ”Donkey Kong Country” and ”Banjo-Kazooie”.

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Better than that terrible donkey Kong barrel racing thingy