Games like Bravely Default 2, Monster Hunter Rise (and Stories 2, as it's a console exclusive), No More Heroes 3 and Shin Megami Tensei V are also coming out this year, big games that mix up with the first party titles to increase the catalogue, like Bayonetta 2 or Astral Chain did.
#DONKEY KONG SHOW SOFTWARE#
Even this E3, which was a golden opportunity for Nintendo to take advantage of the PS5 and XBox Series X/S' slow starts with regard to "AAA" software support, yielded some good but no genuine must-have, system-moving first-party titles for the holiday season, shades of leading with Luigi's Mansion 3 and not much else a couple of years ago due to ACNH's delay.
But the evidence since then suggests otherwise: a high ratio of ports and remaster of first-party titles (primarily Wii U) for the Switch, certain franchises being relegated to mobiles (as Mario Kart is currently) or animation (Donkey Kong), an eShop glutted with garbage, and an almost universally criticized online service whose cloud saves they have repeatedly ignored support for in their own first-party games (BotW and ACNH both required fan outrage for them to bother incorporating it for either). Similarly, most fans thought that Nintendo diversifying their business to include theme parks, mobile games, and animation wouldn't really impact their core console videogame development. Of course in hindsight that never happened most of those franchises haven't seen a new installment or even a remaster after two decades and counting, largely because of a single, "safe", Hedgehog-shaped obstacle standing in the way. After the Dreamcast folded and Sega announced their intention to go third-party, lots of folks thought it would be great as we'd now be getting all their beloved IPs on anyone's platform of choice. Nintendo's direction over the past few years reminds me increasingly of Sega after they left from making consoles, and that is NOT a good thing. "I've been told by multiple people that Donkey Kong is the next franchise in line to follow Mario in Nintendo's push for their game franchises to become multimedia juggernauts.
Signing off, the leaker says "DK is being taken seriously" again by Nintendo and claims the details about all of this will be revealed soon. It's not just going to be a "one-off", according to their sources - the plan is to go beyond games with a brand new animation, a theme park expansion (as rumoured) and merchandise. In a new blog post, they claim Donkey Kong is going to be the next big Nintendo IP to be transformed into a multimedia juggernaut.
#DONKEY KONG SHOW UPDATE#
Leaker Zippo previously "backed up" these rumours and now they're at it again with a fresh update about what's apparently going on behind the scenes. More recently though, there have been rumours about Nintendo EPD (the team behind Super Mario Odyssey) working on a new video game entry in the DK series. Donkey Kong has been missing in action since the port of Tropical Freeze arrived on the Nintendo Switch in 2018.