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

Yes, a 3D one by the team... 38 36.19%
 
Yes, a 2D one by the team that did NSMBW 34 32.38%
 
Yeah, whichever is fine, just gimme DK! 27 25.71%
 
No, I just want to see him in spinoffs 2 1.90%
 
No, there should never be... 4 3.81%
 
Total:105
hsrob on 06 February 2010

I'd rather wait for a 3-D DK until a time when Nintendo has the hardware to do justice to DK's jungle environment.



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WiiRHardcore on 06 February 2010

I'd love to see a 2D Donkey Kong Country 4! If they do another 3D one hopefully it's nothing like Donkey Kong 64, ugh.



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JUG on 06 February 2010
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.



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VTnev27 on 06 February 2010

I never played DK64, so I really can't comment on that. Now Donkey Kong Country 1-3 on the other hand got tons of play time on my SNES, so yes please! Those are the first games I can remember actually trying to complete 100%.



Cheebee on 06 February 2010
JUG said:

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.

Haha, nevermind.

Yeah when I made that post I had just looked up some of those sales numbers as well... 120k WW sounds awfully low for the game, even with the 'Cube low installed base... Makes me wonder if perhaps those sales are incomplete, a lot of the numbers from past gens are, you know. On Wikipedia it says

"In Japan, F-Zero GX sold 100,981 units and became qualified for the Player's Choice line in both Europe and North America by selling at least 250,000 copies."

... So that would mean the game's sold much, much better than 120k.

But I agree, the game was pretty darn awesome, it looked stunning, it was ultra fast and the gameplay was really smooth. Plus, it was extremely well-rounded and feature-packed, with its story mode and missions, character profiles and CGI movies and such. Sega had really poured their heart and soul into it, as far as I could see. I still love it and would very much welcome a Wii version.



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Majin-Tenshinhan on 07 February 2010

I would absolutely love it. Especially considering what a big deal Donkey Kong used to be. Did you know that the first Donkey Kong Country has sold more than any Zelda-game ever has?



megaman79 on 07 February 2010

Launch title for Wii 2.

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“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.