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

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Donkey Kong Bananza Donkey Kong and Pauline looking frightened facing off against Grumpy Kong
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Donkey Kong Bananza, the next big Switch 2 exclusive, actually started development on the original Switch console.

Speaking to IGN about the banana-fuelled platformer, Super Mario Odyssey director and Bananza producer Kenta Motokura revealed that "this game originally began its development cycle on Nintendo Switch 1 and at the time, we were still using voxel technology and thinking of lots of different ideas for applications."

Kaan Serin
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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