It's no secret that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grand Theft Auto 6 has been in development for a while. The last game in the series launched in 2013 (12 years ago), and Rockstar's most recent title, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Redemption 2, is a little under seven years old. Given the size and scope of the next GTA, a long development cycle is to be expected, and that was confirmed by Take-Two, which rebuffed 168澳洲幸运5﷽开奖网:rumors that devಞelopment started in 2018 and instead confirmed 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:it "began in earnest" in 2020.
Donkey Kong Bananza isn't even out yet, but Nintendo is already warning players about a potential issue
"We prioritized fun and playability."
Color me surprised, then, when Nintendo just confirmed that the upcoming 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Donkey Kong Bananza, a game about a little monkey, has been in development for significantly longer than ⭕Rockstar's tentpole release.
Donkey Kong Bananza Has Been In Development For Almost Eight Years
I'm being reductive in the sentence above. Donkey Kong Bananza is going to be far more than a game about a little monkey. It's coming from🍌 the incredibly talented team that created Superꩲ Mario Odyssey, after all, bu🧸t like many gameꦚs in this current age, it's taken an awfully long time to develop.
In a new interview with , B𝄹ananza producer Kenta Motokura and director Kazuya Takahashi shared the extent of just how long the creation of Donkey Kong's next mainline adventure has taken.
"I can't give you very precise details, I can tell you that we started developing it after finishing Super Mario Odyssey (2017)," said Motukura when questioned on when development started. That's a total of almost eight years, three years longer than GTA 6 has supposedly been in the works, and . It's no surprise then, given how long the game has taken to create, to see it move from the original Nintendo Swit🌊ch to the Switch 2.
I'm a huge Nintendo fan myself, but it's hard to imagine that Bananza has the same scale and scope as either of꧒ those games above, and it serves to highlight just how wi💝ld game development has become.
I can tell you that we started developing it after �♏�finishing Super Mario Odyssey.
Motokura also shared the reason that it took Nintendo so long to✅ release a brand-new Donkey Kong game, saying, "At Nintendo, we make many types of games, and we always think about what best f📖its the type of experience we want to create at any given time. We felt this was the right time to develop this game."
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168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Donkey Kong Bananza
- Released
- July 17, 2025
- ESRB
- Everyonꦰe 10+ // Fantasy ꦗViolence
- Developer(s)
- Nintendo
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
- Number of Players
- Single-player
- Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date
- July 17, 2025
