 Hey everyone, welcome back to the Nintendo Prime and I actually have two videos I'm gonna get out to you today But this first one's gonna deal with one specific topic because we need to talk about the future of Super Smash Bros And then later we're gonna have a more prime newsy kind of video happening from our other set but right now let's get into the smash stuff because Sakurai writes a column for a Fumitsu magazine pretty much every single week. It's very rare that he misses a week and Oftentimes, you know, he's not always talking about video games and all that But this time around he is talking specifically about Super Smash Bros And it has leaked quote-unquote leaked and there's been some translations of it and Nintendo everything did a great job breaking it down So I'm gonna reference them in this but what we need to understand is that the second smash fighter DLC pack the six new Fighters coming is it there will be no more DLC after that supposedly at least there won't be another fighter pass and Shockingly This is that this is maybe the big one. There's actually no plans For another Super Smash Bros game. Yes, folks Super Smash Bros ultimate might be the end of Smash, so let's get into the breakdown by Nintendo everything So six more fighters were announced for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate But there won't be any other characters after that once those six additional fighters are released Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be over as in no More new content Sakurai doesn't choose which fighters get in again. This has been repeated by him several times It's actually chosen by Nintendo. He's in position to accept requests from Nintendo's proposal If a character doesn't make sense, he can refuse it, but he doesn't cancel because getting stuck in game ideas So basically if you can't come up with an idea for the character, he doesn't just dismiss it If Nintendo wants the character get in he basically will figure it out Sakurai can't do other jobs while making these fighters, so he's not currently working on any other games This means he doesn't have a game he can release directed by himself, but he's fine with that At least fine with that for now. Obviously when this DLC ends, he could probably move on to another project Sakurai doesn't move based on his own desires like wanting to make or direct a new game So he doesn't basically he doesn't really make decisions for himself He makes decisions based on what Nintendo is asking him to do He works to make other people other than himself happy So he's a selfless kind of person Sakurai isn't saying there is no possibility of Smash Bros continuing in the future But neither him or Nintendo are actually thinking about a future for the game right now or for the franchise Adding all content without leaving anything behind would make a poor piece of work if you think about the near future Releasing those bits by bits would make it continue longer, and that's why these six characters are luxurious editions so What we're basically getting out of this is that he's not saying that Super Smash Bros as a franchise is over But he's saying that you know in conversations. He's having with Nintendo They don't really have any plans for the future of the series and if you think about Super Smash Bros ultimate on face value It kind of makes sense. It's really hard to follow up the ultimate Super Smash Bros I mean think about it. Everyone is here. Remember that mantra back at E3 some years ago Everyone is here. How big of a deal that was and they added all these other DLC fighters adding six more in There are more fighters in this game than basically any fighting game ever It's already the best-selling fighting game of all time Super Smash Bros is the one of the biggest fighting franchises all time And it seems crazy the thing there might not be a Smash Bros game in the future But then again if you think about it, how can you follow up the ultimate Super Smash Bros game? Pretty much anything after this is going to be a little bit of a disappointment And I say that because everyone is here in the future everyone won't be here They what what they do is ultimate isn't necessarily realistic for the future and if you think about it What's the big thing to do at this point moving forward make more fighters, but they're already doing that So what is the future of Smash Bros? Well, I don't know they need to worry about it for next-gen I say that because this game is so big kind of like Mario Kart 8 on Wii U Which I know was a dead platform a little bit different situation But on a next-gen Nintendo platform They could literally just port over Super Smash Bros ultimate deluxe edition and include all the DLC fighters for 60 bucks That seems like an obvious go-to for next-gen and they could just not release a new Smash Bros game They could just you know republish the same Smash Bros game and probably get really really good sales I don't know if they're gonna match the sales that they did on switch But probably get some really really good sales out of that and it'll feel like a good value proposition because Chances are knowing Nintendo. It'll still be 60 bucks on switch plus the two DLC packs So like buying a whole nother game at that point So it'll still feel like a good value proposition to new Smash players or even Smash players that want to play it on the next system Although the next system could be backwards compatible, so then you don't even need to it's a whole mess of a thing that only Nintendo can solve But I do think it's interesting that it does appear like Sakurai He's not asking for more freedom. He's just doing what's asked of him It's interesting to get this get inside Sakurai's head because he's taught about in the past So he wants to do more he wants to develop more games. He wants to do this He wants to do that maybe even make games not for Nintendo But he just keeps doing what Nintendo asked him to do because he's just selfless He just wants to make other people happy. He feels probably a dedication You know, you know feels dedicated to Nintendo as a company after all He worked directly for Nintendo and stuff like that in the past under how laboratories and all this and obviously had a really close friendship with Satoru Owada and originally he was still just doing the Smash Bros games as a favor to Satoru Owada Now he's not around anymore and he's still doing it You know the last non Smash Bros game he made was Kid Icarus Uprising and people really like that And they're wondering are we gonna get another one of those well now We can't until these DLC fighters are done and that's if he even wants to do that or Nintendo wants him to do that And right now it's interesting because Nintendo is not asking him about a future for the franchise Normally what's been happening at least what's been consistently happening for a while is He is outside of Kid Icarus Uprising He's just been going from one Smash game to the next Smash game The next Smash game to the next like he just keeps working on the next Super Smash Bros game And as he wraps up one he's already thinking about the next but this time around's different him and Nintendo aren't thinking about what's next They're thinking about hey, let's finish this and then I Don't know it might be a while I'm not gonna you know, I know the title of this video is a little dramatic But yeah, the future of the series is a little bit in question It's at least gonna be a long time until we see another Smash Bros game I think there's going to be a big gap between this and the next Smash Bros game I'm talking 10 years and at that point Sakurai starting to actually become and you know kind of old And will he even be running? I mean he'll probably still be directing it But will he be doing everything we know this time around ultimate he actually divvied off some of the tasks He's not the one personally Attached to making sure every every fighter is great He's actually been training other people to do that But I I worry about the future of Super Smash Bros in so much that ultimate is basically in my opinion This is just my opinion the perfect Smash Bros game It has everything you could ever need and here's the thing if you'd asked me about Mario Kart 8 Deluxe I tell you the same thing. It's like the perfect Mario Kart game. How can you follow that up? Well Mario Kart is a little bit of a different story because it's not like an everyone is here They didn't bring every track that's ever existed in Mario Kart together in one game They didn't bring you know, which would be the big thing for Mario Kart is bringing all the tracks together Even if they have all the characters bringing the tracks in would be the big thing for Mario Kart So there isn't really an ultimate version of Mario Kart There isn't one game that just pleases everyone and they've done so many different things like double-dash and adult like all these Different things that aren't really in this game So there's still places and directions and ideas that can go into Mario Kart to keep it going and what? What what what makes Mario Kart so endearing isn't even the drivers and the cars It's the courses they can just keep making more courses and they haven't had a game that has all the courses in so they want to make an Ultimate Mario Kart they could do Mario Kart ultimate and then combine everything so like there's still it feels like there's still something They could do with Mario Kart even if I think Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is basically perfect Super Smash Bros. Ultimate though is different. It's a fighting game So it's about the fighters and this is the first one since the very first game to bring every fighter together, so I'm I think I'm okay Now granted, I'm not the biggest like smash, you know gamer in the world There's a lot of hardcore smash fight, you know fans out there But I think I'm okay if Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is it and they just keep re-releasing it for a while you know on the next couple platforms because Where else does smash need to go from here? It's already so perfect the way it is I mean maybe they could do a special or like they bring it over to the next system And then they do another DLC fighter pack and they add you know that that could be a future for the platform You know charge 25 bucks 40 bucks or whatever and you get six to ten new fighters. That could be something But again that also gives Sakurai time between when that development of those new fighters start and you know The end of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to work on something else And I think him and Nintendo might even want him to maybe work on something else Whether it's more Kirby games, you know Even though we get Kirby every year would it want to be great to see him return to Kirby, which is his character Wouldn't it be great to see another Kid Icarus game or something? Maybe he makes an original I game I don't know like it feels like we are and I thought I thought this back at the time when everyone is here is announced How do you follow up the ultimate smash game? Maybe we'll never know because maybe it never is followed up And that's gonna be interesting for the most popular fighting game in the world to just stop on up That's highest note ever, but Hey, you know, it's better. It's better to stop when you're at the top Then to keep reiterating until your franchise doesn't matter anymore Anyways, you guys don't know you think about all the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate news down in the comments below I'm sorry about the smash footage. You've you seem to be playing. I I'm not very good at Smash So I don't think that's a secret at this point. I think you guys so much for tuning in I love all your faces be sure to drop a like comment below Let me know like who's your favorite character to play in smash. I want to know that that's one one thing I want to know and let me know What's happening in your life? If Smash Bros. Would exit from it. Alright folks Subscribe hit the bell icon, and I'll catch all of you in the next video