Overview

• Game director Kazuya Takahashi acknowledged slight frame-rate dips during large-scale destruction sequences, emphasizing that overall playability was prioritized over peak performance.
• Early retail copies of Donkey Kong Bananza have broken street date, prompting significant story and gameplay spoilers to circulate online ahead of the game’s July 17 release on Nintendo Switch 2.
• Donkey Kong Bananza is slated as a Switch 2 exclusive, leveraging the console’s hardware for voxel-based destruction and marking the series’ first internally developed 3D game since 1999.
• Nintendo and Universal Pictures jointly registered a copyright in June for an untitled Donkey Kong motion picture, signaling the first movie adaptation of the franchise outside of its appearance in Super Mario Bros. movies.
• Analysts predict the untitled film will be formally announced in an upcoming Nintendo Direct, following the successful rollout of previous Nintendo-Universal film collaborations.