The Donkey Kong Series Has Surpassed 65 Million Sales Worldwide

Let's get a new DK series then huh? no country, something fresh. Change up his look, give him some new stuff to do, something anything. put him in space or something idk

@Crockin NO!

@khululy i agree, no.

This is no surprise. Its an amazing series with loveable characters and in my opinion some of the finest platform on any console. Far prefer it to the more recent 2d Mario games. What a snore fest 😴😴

65 million!? That's bananas!

We need a new full 3D DK. Would love to have a game similar but better to DK64

W00t w00t! Conga tulations you big Brown ape! 🐸👌🏻

Here is to 100 million!

I hope King K. Rool returns to his home series soon too!

I am currently playing DK Jungle Beat on the Wii Mini and It is really amazing.

@khululy why not? DK doesn't necessarily need to be stuck in jungle sidescroller games forever. I want something new and different

Nice.

I love the Donkey Kong franchise, now bring on the next DK game in the series, please and thanks Nintendo.

@Crockin Go pre-order Mertroid: Dread then.

@Mauzuri ok but it could also be good?

I like when nintendo makes unexpected weird stuff even if it doesnt hit sometimes. I don't want to play the same thing over and over and over. and fwiw i love the last 2 paper mario games so you're barking up the wrong tree

DK64 was my first console game, so the nostalgia hits hard with that one.
I really need another 3D Donkey game. Early year rumours about it broke my heart after getting no news in the last directs

@cartunecartune why would I preorder a game?

If the rumours about the Mario team developing a DK game are true, i've been speculating if it will be a tie-in game for the movie/theme park and would it be a Donkey Kong + Mario + Bowser game?

New Donkey Kong game with return of the Kremlins please, thank you very much.

Tropical Freeze is so underrated. It's easily one of my favorite platformers. I'm looking forward to some more DK in the future!

Good job DK and Nintendo. Can we get a new game due to this miracle.

I love the DK series so much. It's up there with Metroid and Zelda for me (and better than Mario). My favorites are Donkey Kong Country 2 and Jungle Beat.

I was super skeptical about playing a platformer with the bongos but to this day it is probably the most pure fun I've ever had in a game. I was regularly grinning ear to ear while playing it.

Recently got the bongos out. Abit of donkey konga. Abit of jungle beats

@Vortexeo That game is praised for it being so great. It's not a commercial succes but it most certainly is not underrated.

Love me some DK! Probably my favorite franchise to collect game room decor for. So cool!

@Crockin
Donkey Theft Auto?

As good as DKC looked all those years ago, it was no match for Mario.
Tropical Freeze is great but still no match for Mario games.

@hypnotoad I’d argue that DCKR and DKCTF are better games than every NSMB game of the past fifteen years.

@Nameless_Shame If I'm honest mate, I wasn't counting those.

TBH, I'd love to see a DK completely 3D.
If not mistaken, I think we had only the N64 entry that was 3D?

@Deerock69 lmao thats crazy enough to work

@Crockin I’m fine with more Country games. In fact I would basically kill for them. But I would also probably love something new. As others have said, it would be great to get a new 3D DK game. The series seems more prime for that than a lot of others, yet we only have one so far.

One thing I’ve always dreamed of is a 2D game in the vein of Country but very organic and realistic looking. Lush photorealistic jungles and mountains but from a side view. Closest examples I can think of is the Trine games, but even that’s a little more cartoony than I’m thinking.

@Crockin
Okay, but then they should bring the DKC characters back for this new game. Dixie, Kiddy, Tiny, Lanky, Chunky, K. Rool, the Kremling Krew, the other animal buddies, the Zingers, etc.

@Crockin Every time DK goes away from the side scrolling or 3d platform formula, the game is bad. Donkey Konga beats games were not good. The Climber game was awful too. The DK Country games were my favorite growing up and its a shame they stopped making them. DK Tropical Freeze was excellent but it was pretty easy for a country game, and is a Wii U game. All that said though, I am excited to see any new DK game.

What an achievement, and then to get voiced by Seth Rogen...

@BAN I get ya. I basically feel that way about star fox, kirby, and yoshi to a degree. luckily, I think DK is kinda unruinable even if there was a bad dk game in the works.
@Mauzuri I'm not 100% against the idea of another country game, it just would need to really shake it up to keep my attention. honestly i'm kinda luke warm on returns and TF. they're fine platformers but missing the surreal atmosphere and technological edge the originals had, and at the end of the day they just don't really feel like new experiences in my opinion.
@RareFan i personally want whole new characters(as long as they are compelling), but it would be cool to see old faces as long they weren't strictly fan service. my guy kiddy kong will never get the respect he deserves

@Sublogic that's not exactly true, but also i'm not talking about some random gimmick based game. I'm talking about a 3d platformer/adventure kind of game with a new scenario that isn't just the same thing again with new levels. Here's an idea for an example: Dk and diddy or whoever are rebuilding an abandoned city, and each area is like a sandbox thing like mario 64 or odyssey. collect construction supplies that can be used in a simcity-like city customizer to open up new areas and attract new visitors who upgrade your abilities. Maybe mario could be the main antagonist, and boss fights could be a thing where you build obstacles and throw barrels at him, kinda like arcade DK in reverse. Idk something like that! just something new and different!

@Crockin
They barely used the characters they already created. I think they should focus on them first. They only used Kiddy and Chunky once, and others such as Candy, Swanky, Tiny and Lanky barley. And K. Rool and his army were missing over a decade until their leader returned in SSBU as a playbale character.

@RareFan I think all the side kongs are pretty one note and interchangeable, so i wouldn't be sad if we didn't see most of them again. Kremlings coming back would be cool If they were all new and not just the ones from the first dkc. I really don't like the characters that retro came up with because they feel like kremling knockoffs.

They should really make another 3D Donkey Kong. But maybe more linear, like Mario 3D World, instead of the collectathon in DK64.

My fond memory is playing Donkey Kong Jr on an arcade machine at our local pizza joint while I was still in grade school. That and Jungle Hunt. I totally sucked at both those games. But it was a lot of fun.

@MarioBrickLayer I’d love a 3D Mario and Donkey Kong game. Mario exploring a huge jungle and finding Donkey Kong, or Donkey Kong exploring the Mushroom Kingdom.

@Vortexeo If anything Tropical Freeze seems overrated. Returns and TF are the NSMB of DK games, they're nice little nostalgia trips but they get pretty grating because they don't truly do anything new. DK really needs to do something new gameplay wise. Give DK some type of new move or gimmick that shakes up the gameplay. Change the mechanics a bit. Create new Kongs and Animal Buddies that can interact with the level in new ways (and not just for the occasional optional secret like Cranky did it TF). Just something original that actually has impact on the gameplay.

And no, it doesn't necessarily need to be 3D, nor do I think 3D is the magic fix (it sure doesn't seem to be for Kirby). I also don't think sandbox/open world really suits DK that well. A 2D game could work well too.

That being said, I think the best way to shake up DK would be a 3D game, but one that's very different from what people expect. My thoughts is to have a 3D subseries (basically serving as DK's 64/Sunshine/Odyssey, Metroid Prime, Pokemon Legends, etc.) that plays like God of War, Knack, or the Werehog gameplay from Sonic Unleashed. Something that's a mix of 3D platforming and combat. That style of gameplay would fit DK well and would be fairly unique for Nintendo (Nintendo doesn't really have any IP in that style aside from maybe Platinum's Nintendo exclusives and they're not really big on platforming), and could take a similar approach to what Pokemon Legends Arceus is doing, bill it as a side game, test the waters to see if people like it, and if it's successful, continue that style for future games and perhaps even integrate it into the 2D games.

@Nameless_Shame That's not really a high bar to clear. Let me know when we get a better DK game than games like Odyssey or Bowser's Fury (and by that I don't necessarily mean sandbox/open world DK, I mean in terms of originality and what those games did to improve Mario's gameplay, a more accurate comparison would be something more like Yoshi's Woolly World/Crafted World).

@Crockin By "no gimmicks" do you mean they can't do something like Woolly World/Crafted World? Because I think that's exactly the kind of approach the DKC games need. And to be clear, I don't mean I want to specifically see Yarn DK, that wouldn't fit DK that well (plus after Kirby and Yoshi's done them, that would get tired too). What I mean is that I want to see them take a gameplay gimmick of some kind and integrate it into DK's formula for that game. Like, maybe Tropical Freeze would've been more interesting and original if DK got some kind of ice related power for that game and the levels were built around it instead of just being generic DK gameplay. In the 20some years that we've had DKC, it really hasn't done much to improve upon what DK can actually do (DKC2 and Returns were really the only remotely significant improvements and they weren't even that big), that needs to change for DK to feel fresh.

@Crockin I’d expect one maybe next year. Nintendo has already made a new game for all their IP’s of everything except Kong and F-Zero for the switch and ports don’t count. Add that into it’s been 7 going on 8 years since the last release it’ll happen. I see that and more Zelda ports along with maybe a new Arms game before or by 2023. I think Kong will be next year myself. That will be one of their big hitters.
There could be a new Icarus, Punch Out or even a pilot wings also but I think it’ll be a Kong that will be the heavy hitter. Would love to see a lot of their other IP’s come out with a sequel though also.

@Crockin play as the founder of New Donk City. Donkey Kong. Beat em up style, 3D platformer. Clean up crime & manage the city to build something truly great for DK's heart throb Pauline

@Kilamanjaro they should do a Donkey Kong type of Rampage game but in 3D lmao

@Kilamanjaro @Dirty0814 these both sound fun as hell

@Bolt_Strike when I say gimmick, I mean something more like the bongo controller, or that king of swing game or whatever. Those are fun their own right, but not sustainable as a series that people take seriously. A new unique gameplay mechanic though, I'm all for that, and I think the series needs that to keep me interested. I don't just want run/jump/throw/minecart anymore. I need some new flavors

@Crockin Totally agree. Donkey King does have a rich history of experimental games (Donkey Kong Jr., DK3, ‘94, Mario Vs. Donkey Kong, King of Swing, MvDK March of the Minis, Konga, Jungle Beat) and I agree they should return to that spirit, especially if they’re not progressing with the stalwart “Country” series in any meaningful way.

I think first and foremost, the development needs to return to Japan.

@Spiders I'm curious what a studio like next level, monolith, or Mercury steam could do with it. I assume Nintendo epd will be preoccupied with Splatoon, and whatever Mario game is in the works. Bandai namco would make an amazing DK game I bet

65 million?
That's one million more than 64 million, the true milestone mark.
Because he's one h*** of a guy!

DK! Donkey Kong! DK!

Donkey Kong is King!

@Crockin I would be too. At this point, anything besides “Mario, but a monkey” would be great.

I’m stereotyping, but generally I think Western studios tend to miss the point when rebooting Japanese IP (Mercury Steam’s Castlevania, Ninja Theory’s DmC, GRiN’s Bionic Commando) — with the notable exception of Retro Studios — or you have the WayForward style which is so slavishly dedicated to the original that they just make (really good) fan-games.

@Spiders To be fair, the original DKC games were not developed in Japan. But yeah in general i agree. There's a little something lost even in the best nintendo games developed outside of japan. Like I love Punch Out (wii) and Luigi's Mansion 3, but even those western qualities I don't love

@Crockin It will be interesting to see which way DK goes going forward, East, West, or a new partnership. Crazy take.. give it to Sakurai! I think Smash may have the best feeling Donkey Kong of any title.

@Spiders "Mario but a monkey" is a pretty accurate description for DK, gameplay wise there's very little separating Mario from DK, it's mainly just different physics, settings, and assets. I really feel like DK needs more of a gameplay identity that separates him from other platformers, the gameplay always feels fairly generic. I'm pulling for combat gameplay integrated into the platforming gameplay, but anything that makes him feel distinct but still DK would be great.