Nintendo revealed the Super Mario Odyssey team made Donkey Kong Bananza

As previews for Donkey Kong Bananza travel successful up of the game’s July 17th merchandise date, 1 tidbit has stood retired connected the improvement of this game. It’s been astir 8 years since Super Mario Odyssey, and present we cognize what that squad has been up to, arsenic Nintendo has officially revealed that the developers of Donkey Kong Bananza are the aforesaid squad that made Odyssey.

Nintendo has a bully way grounds of retaining and grooming up talent. Developers that worked connected aboriginal entries successful the Kirby, Mario, and Zelda franchises person stuck astir to enactment connected oregon pb the improvement of consequent titles. The effect has been comparative consistency crossed Nintendo first-party titles, which has allowed the institution to upwind the past 2 years a spot amended than its competitors. Super Mario Odyssey was 1 of the apical 5 bestselling games for the archetypal Switch, truthful Bananza is successful much than susceptible hands.

According to The Verge’s Cameron Faulkner, Donkey Kong Bananza is its ain crippled with a unsocial identity. But Odyssey’s improvement squad has added a spot of Mario’s 3D platforming DNA to Donkey Kong’s archetypal 3D platformer since Donkey Kong 64. And portion the enigma of Bananza’s developer has been solved, a caller 1 has taken its place: volition determination besides beryllium a 3D Mario game coming soon to the Switch 2, oregon is it conscionable Bananza for now?