


Nintendo has updated the trademark for Donkey Kong. Notably, the trademark listing says that Donkey Kong has now been filed in such a way to involve "downloadable programs for home video game consoles." With this in mind, some fans are of the belief that this could be Nintendo's way of setting the stage for a new Donkey Kong game on Switch in the future. While this is something that companies have to do all the time to retain their various trademarks, Nintendo's newest filing tied to Donkey Kong altered a few things. If a Wii U owner wants it they can get it so what does making it just slightly harder to come by accomplish?Īnd there are already several Wii U-to-Switch ports and I don't recall any of them being discontinued from the online store.Spotted by on Twitter, Nintendo just updated its trademark filing for Donkey Kong at the end of June 2022.

The game is also plentiful in the used market. It seems to be a pretty easy game to find a physical copy of so this is just discouraging one specific type of sale.

And if you really want this for the Wii U there I still see tons of copies at my local Wal-mart. If the Wii U game sales were a serious threat to Switch sales then the Wii U would have been successful enough that a new Nintendo console probably wouldn't have come out yet in the first place. The whole reason all these Wii U games are getting re-released is because they're like new games for most of the Switch userbase. Having any sort of concern about a Wii U game affecting Switch sales is silly since it's actually pretty hard to get a Wii U these days and hardly anyone owned one when it was current.
