{"id":201772,"date":"2025-06-21T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/201772\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:45:11","slug":"nintendo-appears-to-have-updated-donkey-kong-bananzas-switch-2-file-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/201772\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Appears To Have Updated Donkey Kong Bananza&#8217;s Switch 2 File Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Donkey Kong Bananza\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2164e4167da0d\/donkey-kong-bananza.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/donkey-kong-bananza.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"563\" alt=\"Donkey Kong Bananza\"\/><\/a>Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo shared all sorts of new information about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/donkey-kong-bananza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a> during the title&#8217;s Direct earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to updated listings, Nintendo has been able to work its magic and reduce the game&#8217;s file size from 10GB down to 8.5GB. It&#8217;s not all that much, but given the size of various other titles on the Switch 2, we&#8217;re sure many users will appreciate the extra space.<\/p>\n<p>Although this game is less than half the size of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-kart-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Kart World<\/a> (which had a file size of 21.9GB at launch) it will still be packed with many sub-layers to explore.<\/p>\n<p>During the Donkey Kong Direct this week, Nintendo revealed Odd Rock is actually Pauline along with features like a co-op mode, multiple transformations for DK, and even a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/donkey-kong-gets-a-new-amiibo-nintendo-details-how-they-work-in-dk-bananza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new Donkey Kong &amp; Pauline amiibo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Donkey Kong Bananza launches exclusively for the Switch 2 on <strong>17th July<\/strong>, with the new amiibo arriving on the same date.<\/p>\n<p>Will you be downloading or purchasing a physical copy of DK&#8217;s new outing? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/store-jp.nintendo.com\/item\/software\/D70010000096306\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/store-jp.nintendo.com\/item\/software\/D70010000096306\" target=\"_blank\">store-jp.nintendo.com<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/x.com\/Stealth40k\/status\/1936006160932282429\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Stealth40k\/status\/1936006160932282429\">x.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744183269_17_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo Nintendo shared all sorts of new information about Donkey Kong Bananza during the title&#8217;s Direct earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2914,270,81444,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-201772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-donkey-kong","9":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","10":"tag-nintendo-upcoming-releases","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114719773472064256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}