Following the release of Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, they moved on to a new project (alongside famed Donkey Kong composer David Wise) that gradually entered development hell. The Texas-based studio took over in the late 2000s with the development of Donkey Kong Country Returns, becoming the de facto home of Donkey Kong for the next half-decade. With their Game Boy Advance trilogy the most consistent sellers of the bunch, Nintendo scuttled Rare's desire to make Donkey Kong Country 4 for the Nintendo DS and decided it should be done by a studio that wasn't owned by the competition. This cold war for Donkey Kong's post-Rare direction had a clear winner: Rare. New characters and an overly bombastic attitude put off those that grew up with Donkey Kong Country, but contrary to then-contemporary reports, it was all done with the best of intentions. Bongo controls aside, Jungle Beat was almost an attempt at reverse-engineering Donkey Kong Country had it been originated at Nintendo. Why, there was even an attempt at seeing if the public would prefer a return to Donkey Kong's villainous, barrel-throwing abductor arcade roots with Mario vs. There were Paon's quirky and fanservice-heavy titles like DK: King of Swing and Donkey Kong Barrel Blast. We had peripheral-fueled party games with Namco's Donkey Konga line. These came out at the same time that Nintendo was trying out every conceivable direction for Donkey Kong.
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Indeed, the modern foundations for the series and much of its lore were created by Rare across its Donkey Kong Country, Land, 64, and Diddy Kong Racing titles.Īfter Rare was purchased by Microsoft in 2002, they continued developing DK titles by creating remakes for the Donkey Kong Country trilogy on the Game Boy Advance from 2003 to 2005 (a Diddy Kong Racing remake, Diddy Kong Racing DS, would follow in 2007). For most of the last three decades, Donkey Kong has been a Western-developed franchise. although Jungle Beat was more of a stopgap than a permanent status quo. Rather than simply regurgitate the information in their article, I thought I'd compare and contrast what they're saying against what I've been told, starting with a history lesson on how we got here.ĭevelopment of the new Donkey Kong game purportedly began around 2017 or 2018, when Nintendo decided to bring Donkey Kong back internally for the first time since Nintendo EAD's Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. But all of that has changed today, as now the bigger news sites are beginning to carry the story, starting with Nintendo Life.
And because Donkey Kong rumors are never the sexiest for Nintendo fans, it's mostly been an under-the-radar, in-the-know thing for the likes of DK Vine's audience and the Kremling Kampaigners.
But because I don't style DK Vine as a rumor-chasing site (or, L.O.G.-forbid, a 'leaker'), it's only really come up casually when my erstwhile giddiness got the best of me. This information has come from a couple of my trusted sources at Nintendo (hi Dave Throat!) and has been something I've known about for around two years. Squawks-eared listeners of the Kongversation podcast, proficient Blunder Bear-level readers of DK Vine on social media, or even the old Cranky Kongs on the DK Vine Forum have all been privy to my declarations that Nintendo EPD is working on the next Donkey Kong game.
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