Masahiro Sakurai is known to be one of the hardest-working developers in the video game industry and many have wondered when he will say enough is enough and decide to retire. However, he’s relatively upbeat at the moment as “work is coming in now (there is demand)” so he wants to run with that, but when his “spirit starts to break” and he feels he can not meet that demand then he will have to reconsider things. Here’s what was said to Famitsu via machine translation.
“He says that when either “Is there a demand?” or “Can I meet that demand?” falls apart, he will consider it time to retire. However, he says that his current situation is “very unfortunate, but I’m able to work very hard.”
“On the other hand, he is feeling the “decline” in various parts of his body, and his eyes get tired easily, which is quite noticeable.”
“Work is coming in now (there is demand),” so “the only question is when will my spirit break?” But that doesn’t mean that “it’s okay to keep repeating this,” he says, and he also thinks that “it’s definitely not.” This is because “people have to change stages.”
Working on big projects no matter what company you work with can be very stressful these days. It can easily burn you out no matter the age.