Would you like to see a new full-fledged Donkey Kong game?

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Cheebee said:

JUG said:

Cheebee said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

I'd be fine either way. I've never been big on the Donkey Kong series and while tons of people loved the Donkey Kong games by Rare, I wasn't much of a fan. Both the SNES titles and Donkey Kong 64. But that option for making a 3D Donkey Kong game by the people who made Mario Galaxy may just be exactly the thing that could get me into the series as well as add new innovation to the series since Rare cannot work on it anymore.

Frankly at this time, I'd rather see a lot of other titles before a Donkey Kong game.  Such as Star Fox, Pikmin, Duck Hunt or a console Kirby title.  And its not like DOnkey Kong hasn't gotten a ton of titles over the years, including a few on the DS and GC.

Very true, that. But those have all been spinoffs. The last truly 'real' mainline DK game was DK64, which released like a decade ago...

However, judging by all these games DK got, as well as his countless appearances in other (Mario) games, he's quite popular, and therefore, profitable. So a new 'true' DK game would make sense. Imo, that is. Besides, past mainline DK games have all sold 3 to 9 million copies, and even a lot of the 'lesser' DK games have crossed the 1 or 2 million mark.

Clearly, it would seem to be a wiser move for Nintendo to release a DK game than say, a Kirby, F-Zero or Pikmin game, all of which have sold far less in the past. Not to say I wouldn't really love any of those games, 'cos I would. Very much.

Star Fox sold 3m and Star Fox 64 sold over 4m (according to this site). Those are pretty good numbers! The other starfox games don't count for obvious reasons. If Nintendo 1st party made another proper starfox game in the vein of Lylat Wars, I'm sure it would sell like hot cakes.

That's why I talked about Kirby, F-Zero and Pikmin. I never mentioned Starfox, as I'm sure that'd sell well too. And personally, yes, I'd LOVE a new Starfox, and one like the N64 one at that. And I'm 100% sure it would sell very, very well.

Still, I'm pretty convinced a 3D DK game by the Mario Galaxy team, with proper resources, development time and marketing, would sell like extremely well. Donkey Kong is simply a much bigger IP, and appeals to a broader audience. Look at the number of DK games (even excluding the spinoffs). Now look at the Starfox ones. Yeah.

I saw Kirby, F-Zero or Pikmin and I read Starfox... that's weird! I guess I just want Starfox so badly, I'm starting to hallucinate.

By the by, I was looking up sales for franchises and saw that F-zero GX sold only 0.12 million! That's scandalous isn't it? If I'm not mistaken that game was the first collaboration between Nintendo and Sega and it was a pretty awesome game to boot with a great critical reception. What went wrong? Do we just put it down to low Gamecube market share? It's a tragedy really. I loved F-zero GX.