Development of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, including the release of new DLC fighters, has been done for a while now. That said, even back when Sora from Kingdom Hearts was about to be revealed as the last character coming to the game, there was already fan speculation about what the future holds for Super Smash Bros. as a whole, and where the series should go next.
Well, Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai has shared his thoughts about the matter in a new video that was released earlier today. In it, he reveals that “Smash Bros. is a massive, important title for Nintendo, so it’s fair to assume there will be another one at some point, but it’s going to take some work to figure out exactly how to make that happen”.
As for Sakurai himself, he said that “for now, at least, I can’t really imagine a Smash Bros. title without me. You might think that’s a natural stance for someone in my role, but I say so speaking objectively. I feel the same way president Iwata did when we formed the team for Smash Bros. Brawl. At present, we don’t have someone who can simply take the reigns”. Nevertheless, Sakurai did mention that “for my part, I’d like to keep working with Nintendo however I’m able”. You can see the video down below.
Sakurai how about a Kid Icarus RPG in the meantime!
NO! SHHH! DON’T MENTION SMASH YET! THE INTERNET WILL GO CRAZY FOR YEARS JUST BY THE MERE MENTION OF IT!
If development hasn’t started yet, I’d say we could have a new Smash bros in 2027.
So much for Sakurai being done with smash, am I right?
I’m more serious note, I would love to see him flex his gaming expertise crafting a new IP: are we making a classic gem like Golden Sun, or give us a new Kid Icarus game
+Natorious The Hopeful
I mean he never said he was done with it, that’s just what fans seem to think.
Yeah, but in our defense he did kind of allude to it
He did? When?
I don’t have the interview on hand, but he did talk about walking away from Smash: however he also did say he didn’t know how Smash could function without him…
So I guess it could swing both ways
I’m gonna say we will get another game on Nintendo’s next platform and release date of 2026. That’s my best bet and I want Sakurai to take a long break for what he created.
my dude that’s not really a break at all with how log development time’d need to be
What do you mean that’s not a break at all?
I mean he’d have to start now or have already started, but you didn’t say have taken so I assume that’s not what you had in mind
Heres my suggestion, Have multiple playing fields. When you fall off the edge of the top playing field, you get sent to the one below it and have to ko someone to go back up. In the meantime the players on all levels all just keep playing. Think of Demons crush or kirby pinball where you can go up or fall down playing fields. Maybe you can only go down a couple levels before you are Ko for good and it would be a king of the hill thing.
that doesn’t work great on a a multiplayer game where it’s gotta work on 1 screen ntm theres plenty of directions to die, ntm you’d be stuck with nothing to do a lotta time, ntm thats a new mode and doesn’t solve issue here at all
You wouldnt be stuck with nothing to do, youd just be fighting for ranking. I envision this at a tournament setting also,or an online. I think it would work but I havent worked out everything to the end or anything.
My question is WHO THE HECK WILL BE IN IT? HOW WILL THIS WORK?
I definitely see Conker joining this time around. Seeing as how much more 3rd party characters were on the last DLC packs, this one is going to be jam packed with 3rd party characters. Lloyd from Tales of Symphonia, Conker, and Joan Dark. Maybe Issac, Ryu from Breath of Fire. A rep from Monster Hunter (maybe even from stories) one from any of the Tokyo RPG factory games. Pushmo, the villain from Mario RPG, any of the Bravely Default protagonist (I’m hoping for Agnés) maybe Finally tales, shadow, or Knuckles. I mean, the possibilities are endless now.
I like the Agnés idea. Her Vestal outfit can be her second outfit in Smash.
I’m okay with the next Smash Bros. taking a good few years. The next platform will either come out next year or maybe even the year after. So even if the next game is out 2028 or 2029 we will only be half way into the next platform’s life cycle. Take your time and enjoy your long break in the meantime!
Honestly it’s hard to get excited for a new Smash. I feel the amount of Nintendo characters that would make me hyped I can count on one hand, and seeing what’s trending in video games now makes me dread the possible third parties they would come up with.
I think the next game will be something different but it won’t be like the last game and won’t have any type of possibility again. It is really hard to be a smash fan these days, but fans always expects something far beyond in the series depending on the license of characters from other franchises.
Usually when I see smash bros news, I get excited. But when I saw this thumbnail, my thought was “WHAT?!” as in “WHAT IS IT THIS TIME?!” And I hate it when someone says “objectively” when they mean “subjectively”. Sakurai isn’t the only person who can make a smash bros title, he’s just the only person who’s tried. And no, fan games like project m don’t count. I wouldn’t say ultimate was worse than brawl (at least it had Mega Mad), but it hurts. They got rid of Fire Mario, Mega Man still doesn’t have a voice, we got the wrong Zelda, some fighters don’t transform for their final smash anymore (which is both a curse and a blessing for Charizard), Waluigi Toad Mona and Shantae still aren’t playable nor another Starfox rep or Mega Man rep, and we got a random generic enemy (Piranha Plant) another sacrilegious Sega rep that isn’t Akira Yuki (Joker) a bland male from a lesser company (Terry) an arms rep that isn’t even the female lead (Min Min) and TWO fighters from Nintendos current rival (Banjo and Steve) instead. If you ask me, a hobo can do a better job at making smash than Sakurai.
+Noneya business
I have so many problems with this comment but the 1 I have to zone in on is the part about the “Wrong Zelda”.
What do you mean by this?
I assume that they mean they dislike the use of Zelda’s ALTTP design in Ultimate and prefer the TP design she had in Brawl and Wii U.
In fact, I think this might actually be the same guy who was calling people paedophiles for liking Zelda’s ALTTP design more than her TP one on here a few weeks ago (they have the same pfp and had a similarly rabidly written comment), so I would probably advise not engaging with them.
That would be me that idiot called that. The moment they did that, I checked out. Got no time for idiots misusing words. If this is the same idiot, well that’s their problem.
LttP Zelda is fine. Better outfit than her TP design. (So many better looking Zeldas to use than that version. BotW Zelda woulda been nice but, at the same time, they did mess with Samus’s curvyness.) I will agree with TWO things: he did misuse objectively & Sakurai isn’t the only one that can do Smash. He needs to take a cue from Miyamoto & Sakurai (OH & Toriyama), and start training someone to take over Smash for him.
I would like to see some Double Dragon, River City, Nights into Dreams, Hatsume from Shinobi, Demitri and Morgan from Dark Stalkers, Shanoa from Castlevania Order of Ecclesia, Mischief Makers added this next time, and to see if he can really pull it off I would love to see Artorias along with Sif from Dark Souls.
After the last Smash game adding Sora there’s no holds bar on what can possibly added at this point imo.
Keep censorship out of it. Or have a option to turn censorship on or off.
dire news for nintendo.
It’s been 4 and 1/2 years since the last Smash brothers…
longest gap we’ve had before this was 6 years, 2 months, and 10 days.
I just hope they finally get rid of that terrible input buffer. Or at least give us an option to turn it off. That’s the biggest reason I’ve walked away from every game that’s come out after Melee (and not for lack of trying – I’ve put some pretty serious time into each game). I could never get used to it. And especially at higher levels of competition I get frustrated, as it feels like I’m fighting the game more than I am my opponent.
I’d also love it if wavedashing/wavelanding and dash-dancing worked. And throw in edge-cancelling while I’m at it. I can put up with the rest of the stuff I’m not particularly fond of.
Of course, I’m not expecting any of this to happen. They’re probably more likely to reinstate tripping than any change I want.