Nintendo Outsourcing Development Of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D

That's a surprise. I thought for sure Retro Studios or Nintendo themselves was porting it.

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All this does is make me wonder, what the hell is Retro workin' on?

@Gen0neD Well... Starfox... F-Zero... Metroid... Who knows?

But it has to be something really big.

Well, it means it won't impact the development of whatever Retro is working on. So that's a plus for me.

I don't see how they could mess up a direct port. Now if the 3d slows the game down considerably then we might have a problem. Here's hoping the frame rate stays up in 3d mode!

I think its good Nintendo is outsourcing remakes to other companies, gives them more time to make new games themselves

Glad someone else is doing this, we need the main dev teams working on new stuff!

Wonderful news for Retro fans like me. I can't wait for whatever Retro's next game is!

That does mean that its unlikely that Monster Games is currently working on a new Excite game or anything new, though. Although it may still be possible that they are working on two games at once.

This port just does not interest me. I've almost entirely cleared this game on the Wii twice. I'll stick with what I have on Wii.

Thank G-d! Now Retro Studios can put full manpower towards something new.

Come on, as if Ninty will waste Retro on an unnecessary port! This game is only being released to add a bullet point to the 3DS library. I knew someone else would be doing it.

Yay, I love Monster Games.

Donkeykong 64 hopefully will also be remade

Aww, I was hoping Monster Games was making a new racer.

@Mangoof89 That would be a dream come true!

I'd love to see Donkey Kong 64 get remade. That would be so epic.

Monster Games has what it takes to port the game over. I can't wait because I wanted classic Controller support on the Wii version so the 3DS version will be right up my alley.

I wish Monster was working on a new Excitebots

i think retro should focus on making new titles and not remaking or porting games, so i'm more then happy to see Monster to port this game =) as for retro i hope they are working on any of my 3 most wanted games for wii u ( f-zero, metroid or star fox ).

Now people can shut up about Retro wasting there talents(which is an arrogant statement).

I think the term might have some negative connotations. Monster Games has worked exclusively with Nintendo for the last several years with Kensuke Tanabe who overlooks Retro Studio games as well. It's in good hands.

Sounds great. They have a great track record, so they probably won't mess it up.

Ok i'll hope for it.

Too many freaking remakes/ports. What the heck is Nintendo doing?

I think monster games should get round to releasing excitebots in EU, cos excitetruck was freaking awesome.

As long as it ends up good, I don't think it matters, though this could lower the chances of any new content.

@Astro
As unlikely as that would be, it will be awesome. Come on Nintendo, release it as Wii U Ware or something!

@DarkCoolEdge Nintendo's making the new Mario and Zelda games. Monster's handing this remake.

Well, I just beat DKCR (main game, not 100%) so it might be a while before I pick this up. I love DKCR though.

Hopefully the porting process goes smoothly. I'm looking forward to playing this.

I'm down to play this again.

The Nintendo 3DS has been a retro gaming platform with new titles as well. I really love the fact the Nintendo 64 has been thrown in a lot.
EX: Ocarina of Time, Star Fox 64, Mario kart 7 scoreboard after finishing the race jingle, and etc.
Though, I am really curious and concerned about the game control for this game.

Well, from the video footage in the eShop, it looks great. Hope it stays that way for the final product. I love the difficulty of it - took me a year to completely finish Mirror Mode.

They haven't given any information as to when this is coming, right?

Any thing with DK in it is a game I will definitely pick up, even if it is just a port. DKCR was amazing! DKCR on 3DS; just as amazing!

I'm no coding expert, but don't they just have to copy+paste and modify the codes for 3DS?

One of these years I'll try one of these Donkey Kong platformer's. Only DK game I've played wa sthe Donkey Konga series. Only slightly embaressed to say I still play them frequently, lol.

I am happy about this! Retro shouldn't waste time on a port, but instead work fulltime on something new and amazing on Wii u!!

im kind of disapointed in this. i love donkeykong and i would love to see a 3d donkey kong game. but i wish it was a new DK game instead of a ported version of the most recent one.

@Shock_Tart Would you trust monster with making a new game dkc game or Retro if they are?

This is great news. That means RETRO could be working on both a new WiiU title and a new 3DS title Can't wait to hear about their projects!

Although it's a good idea, I'm not gonna buy another copy of the same game that came out like three years ago. But something that WOULD be cool is, something that used to go hand-in-hand with a DKC game; a Donkey Kong LAND Returns.

@MultiMariosonic really?

AH, so hopefully that means Nintendo and Rare are busy on other projects? Cool. Don't frack this up though Monster.

@LEGEND_MARIOID

Rare is owned by Microsoft and has had nothing to do with DK for more than a decade

ehh it was obvious retro werent porting this to 3DS come on people common sense should prevail here.

It looks like a solid port so this is fine with me.

Feel like ive already heard this story before, has this been reported earlier?

What a waste of ressources.

Good, that clarifies things

@pntjr: I would say not quite. This kind of conversion would probably require a pretty extensive amount of code, depending on how much they do with it. Multiplayer would possibly require a different kind of code to execute it, since it would require two systems instead of one. Then there's the code for the 3D effect, and if they throw in say, StreetPass for Time Attack scores, that would require additional code. If this is anything like the DKC GBA remakes, then they'll probably throw in something significantly different somewhere. I'd also put it this way - if they just had to copy and paste code, and then edit it, they would probably do that. Seeing as how the game is being re-built from the ground up, there's going to be something significantly different from the Wii version (aside from 3D and button mapping, of course).

I hope Nintendo makes Retro a permanent branch of Team Nintendo. Retro has done an incredible job with the games they've done so far. I do not want to see them end up like Rare.

They already are

Outsourcing isn't much of a big deal when it comes to ports, save for the "Porting Disaster" article on Tv Tropes.

Now, as for "what else" Retro's working on... ain't it obvious? Whatever it is, we won't find out 'til next E3. And whether it's DKCR2, Metroid, Zelda... it's gonna be big anyway.

@AbeVigoda Sorry, I obviously meant Retro. Brain-slip. Thanks!