Donkey Kong Bananza reveals fans believe that Nintendo is also developing the Switch 2 Super Mario 3D platform game

New Reveal Donkey Banana Details drive Nintendo fans crazy speculation about the company's Next Big 3D platformer – and the return of Mario Company Mario.

As IGN revealed yesterdayDonkey Kong Bananza, produced by Nintendo veteran Kenta Motokura, directed by Kazuya Takahashi, the latest addition to the company. Prior to Nintendo, Takahashi worked for Sega and Square Enix, working in franchises such as Sonic and Final Fantasy. Meanwhile, Motokura directed the Super Mario 3D world and Super Mario Odyssey.

Nintendo Confirmed as IGN last month The team behind Super Mario Odyssey is making Bananza without specifying who it is. But now we know who the top developer of the game is-we even know Why The game exists, as IGN was told, the idea comes from Odyssey producer and Nintendo legend Yoshiaki Koizumi.

This is the part that fans want to know now. if Donkey Kong Bananza exists because Koizumi asks Mario Odyssey team to create a 3D donkey game But the boy isn't involved in his usual position as a director or producer, so…well, what else can the boy do?

Koizumi is one of Nintendo's most prolific creators, working in every major Mario 3D platformer game the company has produced, serving as assistant director of Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy, and producer of the then Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario 3D Land, Super Mario Mario World Mario Mario World Mario Mario Odyssey.

Koizumi also played a major role in the launch of the Nintendo Switch (as the general producer of the hardware itself) and served as a regular face in Nintendo Direct broadcasts. Now, fans think the kid's absence is a sign that he rescues something else: the next big 3D Mario.

“The fact that Koizumi (producing Galaxy 2, 3d Land, 3d World and Odyssey) works on Bananza is enough to prove that there is a separate 3d Mario in development and Bananza shouldn’t take Mario’s place,” Fan Fan Biggienew wrote in one fan Biggienew. ” postal On X/Twitter.

“Do you think Yoshiaki Koizumi is producing the next 3D Mario?” said another fan.

“Yoshiaki Koizumi is not a producer or director of Bananza!” He wrote the third fan, all of whom are hats. “The new 3D Mario game for Switch 2 will be saved next year, Wahoo! We and DK fans can happily coexist as Nintendo's new era begins! (I hope…)”

Of course, at some point, the arrival of another 3D Mario game is guaranteed, and none of this speculation seems to make Donkey Kong Bananza look like it will be Nintendo's next big and very promising new 3D platform.

But since the 2017 Odyssey launch in 2017, the growing 3D Mario has no new 3D Mario around the Switch 2 launch, which inevitably sparked speculation and hopefully not very far away from the pleasure of the upcoming Donkey Kong Bananza, Nintendo's next Mario Euting.

Other donkey kong bananza details revealed by IGN this week include facts Game starts life 1 on Nintendo Switch 1and the fresh chat of Nintendo How Bananza adapts to Donkey Kong Canon.

Tom Phillips is the news editor for IGN. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on the Blues @tomphillipseg.bsky.social