Super Nintendo World Donkey Kong Country Expansion Opening Spring 2024

It is a wonder Shigeru Miyamoto even remembers what the world of Donkey Kong is like with how long we have been waiting for a new Donkey Kong video game. They sadly didn't even do anything for the 40th anniversary.

I'm actually planning on going to Japan in spring of next year, hopefully this will be ready by the time we're there!

I have got to get to Japan.

cool stuff! Hope they do zelda at some point too

Oh em gee I hope this will be open by March 10. Fingers crossed it doesn’t open right after I leave Japan, but it probably will dang it

Well, not a fan of Donkey Kong franchise.
I prefer ARMS get highlighted so Boxing sport will get more appreciations.

I hope one day, Nintendo will make a new 3D Donkey Kong game.

@MsJubilee I would love to see what they could do with a 3D Donkey Kong video game now after how many years ago Donkey Kong 64 came out. Donkey Kong 64 is one of my fav video games of all time and I was disappointed we didn't get a sequel to it and they don't use Lanky Kong anymore 'cause he was fun to play as.

Bring back Lanky Kong!!!!!!

I wonder if it’ll cost an extra $30 for the Super Nintendo World + Donkey Kong Country Expansion Pack lol

at first I though it was a new dk games

I already thought this was a possibility, but now I feel 100% confident that early next year, Nintendo us going to release "Donkey King Country Returns Deluxe." I think it could very likely be announced in a February Direct and release by June.

Like Kirby's Return to Dream Land DX, it will be a massive visual overhaul. Headed by the team at Retro responsible for the beautiful Metroid Prime remake, the game will have incredible fur textures, shading, and lighting that will look even better than Tropical Freeze.

Just like how Nintendo released RTDL within a year of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, I think Nintendo is simultaneously developing a brand-new DK game in tandem with the Returns remake. This would explain the conflicting rumors from a couple years ago regarding whether a 2D or 3D Donkey Kong game is currently in development; they could both be true, albeit only one is a fully original game and might be saved for Nintendo's next console.

It just makes too much sense to bring Returns to the Switch. Nintendo wants to have synergy across all their business endeavors: games, movies, theme parks, and accessories. We already have the DK Lego sets, movie cameos, and now the amusement park expansion that draw heavily from the art direction of Returns.

Nintendo wants this to be the imagery you associate with the big ape, just like how the Mario side of the park and many elements of the movie lean closer toward 3D World than anything else. We already have 3D World on Switch, so it just makes sense now that Returns will follow suit. Brand recognition is important, and Nintendo wants the kids who didn't grow up with Returns--and the adults who played the SNES original but maybe skipped out on the Wii--to experience the game that their parks and movies are so heavily based on.

This is going to happen. Mark my words. It makes too much business sense, even for an oddball company like Nintendo that is often unpredictable. Fans will groan that we're getting a remake instead of a new game after all this time, but it will still be glorious and a new game is still being worked on--just like how the Metroid Prime remake doesn't invalidate the existence of Prime 4. They can--and should--both exist in tandem if Nintendo wants to expand their audience. This is only the beginning phase for DK's revival.

It blows, that they preferred Tiki Tong over King K. Rool. But, they, most likely, planned this park section years ago, before the SSBU poll, and when Nintendo realized that DKC fans actually like KKR.

Yaaaay! Finally!

The DKC music hits different. Now we need a new DK game asap.

@Anti-Matter that is certainly a take.

Thats nice, but the neglect of a certain croc king and his tribe makes me very sad.
The Tiki Tak tribe taking the crocs' place? Pfft, that tribe can take a hike.

Huh, was convinced that Nintendo forgot about DK. We’re only coming up on, what, 10 years since the last game in the series?

My current plan is to visit Japan next year but this will most likely be one attraction I won't visit. I don't care about anything other than the Nintendo section of Universal Studios so it's not worth the insane price which doesn't even include the Power-Up Band. There are plenty of other sights to see.

Nice, you could see the top of the golden shrine from Harry Potter world next door when I was there at the start of November

@Coolmusic problem with King Krool he was part of the Rare games, therefore they would have to cut in Microsoft, but I do agree it is sad

D9nt get me wrong looks great, however...Whether it's due to the lack of games or that Mario "out grew" DK, it dose feel like Nintendo might be overestimating DKs brand reach here. Unless as others have noted Nintendo is goog for a year of DK mext year

Feels unfair on kids (and so too the adults managing kids' aspirations/expectations) to advertise a theme park with digital renderings and a video of a mine kart jump that won't actually exist at the park.

Nintendos treatment of donkey kong is for me a puzzle. iMO donkey kong is just as important as zelda and mario… just dont understand why they arent making a 3D,2D etc dk game that pops up as often as mario games, and why not build more on other characters also, like diddy kong racing or something new… cranky kong and the rest of the bunch got so much character… so many possibiltys. They are sitting on a gold mine, but not doing anything with it.

@Not_Soos Agreed about it being a sign of Returns being brought over. The park has the Retro Studios feel to it, we already got Tropical Freeze for Switch back in 2018 and Retro are busy on Prime 4 so wouldn't be doing a Tropical Freeze sequel which leaves bringing over Returns.

@gcunit

The expansion will have a mine cart coaster though. It is a newly designed coaster with a sideways track underneath a false track. This will allow the carts to "jump" over breaks and gaps in the false track to simulate the game.

@Late

This is a expansion of the Nintendo section, it is included with the park ticket. So you are already paying for it when you go into Universal.

Can we get a new Donkey Kong game please Nintendo? It's now just 2 months shy of 10 years since Tropical Freeze launched on the Wii U. Ten years without a new game for Donkey Kong is comfortably the biggest disappointment of the Switch era.

Defs gonna visit next trip. Already visited the first main area but this will be an amazing treat too!

@JonSpangler Yes, I understand that. I'm just saying that I wouldn't mind seeing the Nintendo part of Universal Studios (including DK stuff if available by then) but since the price of entry accounts for all other parts of the park (Harry Potter, etc.), it's just not worth it for me. Single ticket is like 50€ and the Power-Up Band which is the amiibo wristband you use to interact with lot of the Mario stuff is over 20€. I don't think the experience is worth that. It's probably not even that bad of a price comparatively but I don't frequent theme parks so I wouldn't know.

Donkey kong open world Nintendo cosmo launch title confirmed!

We got our Dankey Kang, now we just need Legend of Zorldo.

Interesting that they're going with the Country branding in Japan. The DKC games are called Super Donkey Kong for the SFC ones and omit Country for the modern ones.

@MsJubilee there were rumours that the team behind Mario Odyssey were making an open world Donkey Kong game. I hope it's true.

Exciting to see the theme parks continue to be expanding. Loved my visit to the one in California, even with the crowds 😅