Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai thinks it would be “difficult” to push the series “any further than we have”
The creator of the Super Smash Bros. series, Masahiro Sakurai, released a video talking about the development of the latest installment of the fighting series, Super Smash Bros. Ultimatein which he admitted that the idea of trying to develop a new game that would push the franchise even further than it has already achieved would be “difficult”.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was released for the Nintendo switch back in 2018 and was by far the most ambitious title of the series yet. It was groundbreaking, if only because it included every fighter from the franchise’s past, including the franchise’s Snake Metal gear solid games and the Ice Climbers from the NES title Ice climber. The title also introduced several new characters, such as Ridley from the Metroid series. It pushed this even further in the paid DLC, adding popular third-party characters like Sora Kingdom heartsJoker van Person 5, and Steve van Minecraft.
Considering all this, combined with the extensive single-player campaign, it’s understandable that Sakurai isn’t sure how to top this. Ultimate has already achieved. He said: “As for what comes next for the Smash Bros. series, even I’m not sure. I feel like we’ve really succeeded in making people happy with this game, but now that Smash Bros. has now grown monstrously large, I would say it is difficult to imagine an increase of this magnitude happening again.
“Each time we managed to make a game that I would have previously thought impossible, so I can’t say for sure that there won’t be another game, but I do think it would be difficult to push it any further than we have done.”
There are currently no public plans for a new one Smash Bros. game, and based on what Sakurai said in his latest video, it looks like there’s no guarantee we’ll ever get one. Fans will just have to watch this space.
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