It's no secret that Grand Theft Auto 6 has been in development for a while. The last game in the series launched in 2013 (12 years ago), and Rockstar's most recent title, Red Dead Redemption 2, is a little under seven years old. Given the size and scope of the next GTA, a long development cycle is to be expected, and that was confirmed by Take-Two, which rebuffed rumors that development started in 2018 and instead confirmed it "began in earnest" in 2020.
"We prioritized fun and playability."
Color me surprised, then, when Nintendo just confirmed that the upcoming Donkey Kong Bananza, a game about a little monkey, has been in development for significantly longer than Rockstar's tentpole release.
I'm being reductive in the sentence above. Donkey Kong Bananza is going to be far more than a game about a little monkey. It's coming from the incredibly talented team that created Super Mario Odyssey, after all, but like many games in this current age, it's taken an awfully long time to develop.
In a new interview with La Vanguardia, Bananza producer Kenta Motokura and director Kazuya Takahashi shared the extent of just how long the creation of Donkey Kong's...
