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Nintendo says it out loud: 60 FPS is king – 30 FPS "couldn't fully capture" Donkey Kong Bananza, which really shows the Switch 2 difference in a new side-by-side with the old Switch 1 build
By Austin Wood published
News Switch 2 brings Nintendo up to speed with frame rates other consoles had years ago

Donkey Kong Bananza has a development time to rival GTA 6: "I can tell you that we started developing it after finishing Super Mario Odyssey"
By Scott McCrae published
News Gorilla tech takes a while to make

Donkey Kong Bananza's director replayed every game in the series when he was assigned to the Switch 2 game: "That motivated me to incorporate past memories along with new ideas"
By Scott McCrae published
News "I wanted to revisit those elements and add a sense of destruction"

Donkey Kong Bananza will have some framerate drops, director admits, but he's fine with that: "We prioritized fun and playability"
By Scott McCrae published
News "We intentionally used effects like hit-stop and slow motion to emphasize impacts"

Donkey Kong Bananza has "some similarities" to Super Mario Odyssey since it's from the same dev team, and its core mechanic was already experimented on in the 3D Mario game
By Scott McCrae published
News "We realized we really needed to know more about Donkey Kong"

Donkey Kong Bananza started as a Switch 1 game, but bringing it to Switch 2 enabled "very large scale" destruction Nintendo couldn't pull off before
By Kaan Serin published
News Director Kazuya Takahashi was also really into the console's mouse controls

Nintendo relents, confirms Donkey Kong Bananza is being made by the Super Mario Odyssey team after weeks of fans guessing just that
By Scott McCrae published
News Guess we'll be waiting a while to see Mario in 3D again

Donkey Kong Bananza is the perfect time to bring back an AWOL villain, and I'm already uncovering conspiracies that say our favorite crocodile will turn up
By Scott McCrae published
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