Super Smash Bros. director has been working on a new game for two years

Masahiro Sakurai has revealed he’s been processing a caller crippled since 2022, raising hopes of a caller Smash Bros. for the Nintendo Switch 2 launch.

It’s champion not to instrumentality thing for granted with Nintendo, but astatine this constituent it’d beryllium a astonishment if their adjacent console didn’t look mostly the aforesaid arsenic the Nintendo Switch – particularly aft recent leaks suggested precisely that.

It’d besides beryllium a astonishment if the main motorboat crippled wasn’t a Super Mario title, since determination hasn’t been 1 for ages and aggregate leaks person hinted astatine immoderate benignant of Donkey Kong themed crossover.

Beyond that though (and the weird online game they’re presently investigating for the archetypal Switch) perfectly thing is known astir the caller console… but there’s present a tenable accidental it volition play big to a caller Masahiro Sakurai game.

There’s nary beating astir the bush, Masahiro Sakurai is simply a unusual guy. He’s 54 but looks astir 24 and was truthful committed to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate that helium ended up going into enactment with an IV drip attached to his arm.

Despite being a workaholic he’s perpetually talking astir retiring and has described astir each Super Smash Bros. crippled arsenic the past one, with nary accidental of another.

He’s seemed to person been successful a authorities of semi-retirement ever since enactment ended connected Ultimate successful precocious 2021, but he’s present revealed that helium started enactment connected a caller crippled astir consecutive away.

Sakurai made the announcement conscionable arsenic helium finished his long-running YouTube bid astir crippled development, stating that helium worked up a crippled connection successful 2021, for Nintendo, which was rapidly greenlit.

He seemingly started doing the YouTube transmission (which helium spent astir fractional a cardinal pounds of his ain wealth on) successful the interim, due to the fact that it took a agelong clip to enactment unneurotic the improvement squad helium needed.

‘I’m atrocious I can’t stock much astir this project, but assuming we’re capable to get it made, it should beryllium announced sooner oregon later,’ helium said.

Naturally, astir fans are assuming that it’s a caller Super Smash Bros. crippled but if you instrumentality Sakurai’s comments astatine look worth it truly doesn’t dependable similar that.

Nintendo would beryllium the ones begging him to marque a caller one, not him having to person them with a written proposal. Also, you’d presume helium already knew the radical he’d request to marque different one, whereas he’s implying that his caller crippled needs much unfamiliar talent.

It’s astir apt champion not to work excessively overmuch into his purposefully ambiguous comments but if it’s not Smash Bros. it could beryllium virtually anything.

He’s worked connected a batch of Kirby spin-off games earlier successful his career, arsenic good arsenic puzzle crippled Meteos and 3DS rubric Kid Icarus: Uprising (for which there’s been occasional whispers of a remaster), but thing that makes it evident what his adjacent determination would be.

Which means we’re close backmost to knowing virtually thing astir the Nintendo Switch 2 oregon its games…

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