Donkey Kong Bananza Developer is 'Same Team as Super Mario Odyssey' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 July 2025 / 3,438 Views
Nitnendo has confirmed the Donkey Kong Bananza developer is the "same team" that worked on Super Mario Odyssey.
"The development team of Donkey Kong Bananza is the same as for Super Mario Odyssey," a Nintendo representative told Eurogamer.
Donkey Kong Bananza will launch for the Nintendo Switch 2 on July 17.
Super Mario Odyssey released for the Nintendo Switch in October 2017 and has sold nearly 30 million units as of March 31, 2025.
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It was obvious. Why is Nintendo often secretive about developers of their games?
Because of leakers, I guess.
For a while I have felt it is related to all the recent mario voice actor recastings. Nintendo don't want consumers to be too familiar with dev teams the same way they don't want fans to recognize the voices behind their characters as much as the characters themselves. They want nintendo to be seen as a monolith and that their games come fully formed out of the ether. And it is effective branding for them. Pokemon games don't even hide Game Freak's involvement but we still have Matsuda complaining that most people still don't even know that Game Freak exists.
Matsuda is one of the main reasons people have been unhappy with the series for so long
Prioritizing accessibility over giving fans what they wanted for so long...
Hilarious had almost zero involvement with PLA, which was largely loved, and directly oversaw BDSP, which was largely hated.
He has no room to complain about lack of recognition
Every Pokémon player knows very well GF exists, the reason why they're not that recognizable outside that "bubble" is because they don't know how to make good games, so everything they do without the Pokémon branding to carry the game, flops.
Who didn't think it was?
