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First let's talk about his most recent bit in the news and that is that he feels as if we should just not pay attention to him for a while. In an interview he did in Japan, he noted that you know what, whatever he is doing or going to be doing next, it's going to be a while until we see it. So we should just kind of forget about him. As if we could actually forget about one of the greatest game directors and producers of all time. It's going to be very hard to ignore Mr. Masahiro Sakurai, but it kind of sounds like he's pleading with fans, pleading with media to basically just leave him the hell alone. Whatever he's working on is going to take a while because it's probably something he's only just now getting into and we don't know what that is. Is it another Smash Bros. game? We don't know. Is it something bigger than Smash? Is it Kirby? Is it something new, a new IP? Maybe he's making something for PlayStation. We have no idea what Mr. Masahiro Sakurai has cooking, but we do know that he is asking people to just kind of forget about him for a while. He'll let us know when it's time to pay attention again. So anything he tweets, anything. Don't start clinging on to every word he says as if it means anything until something new is announced from his camp. Remember he does have his own development studio and he is 100% independent of Nintendo. He was just contracted by them for games like Smash. He might continue to work with Nintendo, by the way. We don't know. Just know that whatever he's working on, it's gonna be a while. It could be four or five years. If it is on a Nintendo platform, likely on their next device that Nintendo, by the way, did confirm exist and is coming out in 20XX, which basically just means it's coming out someday. But, well, someday before 2100. So it'll be here in my lifetime, so that's cool. But yeah, Mr. Masahiro Sakurai just kind of wants to be left alone and I think we can all respect that. However, Masahiro Sakurai was also in the news lately for one other thing and this is a bit of an emotional statement. He was talking to IGN about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate now that it's all wrapped up and he said something very pointed. He believes he has completed Satoru Owada's final mission to him. These are his words. Now, for those who don't know, Satoru Owada, the late president and CEO of Nintendo of Japan, obviously passed away from colon cancer. This is unfortunate and obviously rocked the video game industry at the time because he was much beloved, even as Nintendo at the time was in the midst of their worst generation of all time. Satoru Owada himself was very beloved by his staff and obviously very beloved by a lot of Nintendo fans. He started Nintendo Directs directly to you. Obviously, he led the Wii and DS generation, which before Switch was the greatest generation in Nintendo history. He was very loved by everyone around him and one of the hardest workers and very honorable. He was the one who started the whole, hey, just because we're doing bad with Wii U and 3DS doesn't mean we're firing employees. I'm gonna slash my own salary instead. Very honorable thing to do, something you rarely hear as the activisions of the world tell you that, oh, what was us? We need to fire staff, but still pay massive bonuses to ourselves. Very crazy that that's how the world works, but that's not how it worked with Satoru Owada. Well, him and Masahiro Sakurai were essentially best friends. In fact, Sakurai has talked about this over the years, how really the only reason he continued to make Super Smash Bros. in general was as a favor to his good friends, Satoru Owada. Owada and him go way back to the hell laboratory days. They helped make Kirby together. They helped make Smash Bros. together. Owada was obviously responsible for even Pokemon being a thing on Game Boy. He had to rewrite a lot of the code at the base level to even make it run on that hardware. Owada's track record does not need to be revisited more than that because it's absolutely incredible. He is brilliant. And the thing is, you know, Satoru Owada and Masahiro Sakurai had a great friendship. And to hear that this is what he felt was the final mission from Owada is, it's heartwarming, but also heartbreaking because there's a high likelihood that Masahiro Sakurai and Owada were in contact in Owada's final days. And it would be surprising if he gave him this mission to make the ultimate Super Smash Bros. game. And that's what we got with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It can explain why this is the time that Nintendo and Sakurai came together to actually bring every character that's ever been in Smash together to do the impossible and get things like Sora into Smash, to do the impossible and get Joker into Smash, to do the impossible, get Banjo-Kazooie into Smash. It explains why there is so much emphasis on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and why it could be quite some time before we see a brand new game in the Smash series, which Sakurai has also admitted. He doesn't think can be done without him anyways. It's very, very heartwarming and very touching to know that essentially the conclusion of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate he feels is his ultimate tribute to his good friend, Satoru Owada. So while he is dearly missed, Mashiro Sakurai made sure that we always remember that Smash Bros. Ultimate doesn't just exist because of him. It exists because his late friend, Satoru Owada, asked him to do it on his deathbed and he made it happen. Truly legendary from one of the best creators in the video game industry. Now moving into a bit of a more uplifting story, I suppose, it's gonna spark some debate. There was a Japanese TV station called, what is it, TV, Asahi, again, I don't know how this is directly pronounced in English, but they did a national poll in Japan for what gamers thought were basically the top 100 console games of all time, which is really interesting. I think they were just excluding PC and mobile phones, I think was the idea there, because handheld and handheld consoles and home consoles counted. What's interesting here is they pulled over 50,000 different gamers from across all of Japan, and the list is quite interesting. I will show the entire list on screen right now, but we're not gonna go over everything. There are some interesting notes, of course, at the very top of the list, that's where everyone really focuses on. Breath of the Wild actually took the number one spot, so you can look at this as kind of like a ranking among Japanese gamers of the top 100 games in Japanese history, and yeah, Breath of the Wild's there at the top, and the Dragon Quest V at number two and Final Fantasy at number three. I think that's a really solid top three, and then you get into Animal Crossing, New Horizons at four and Splatoon two at five. Like that top five is really good. We'll keep going down maybe all the way through the top 30 here. We got Dragon Quest III, The Seeds of Salvation at number three, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the game we just talked about at number seven, Chrono Trigger at number eight, Final Fantasy X at number nine, Super Mario Bros. III at number 10, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl at number 11, Super Mario Kart at number 12, Undertale at number 13, Pokemon Sword and Shield at number 14, Dragon Quest IV, Chapters of the Chosen at number 15, Kingdom Hearts II at number 16, The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time at number 17, number 18 has Metal Gear Solid III Snake Eater, number 19 is Sukudin II, number 20 is Minecraft, number 21 is Splatoon, number 22 is Animal Crossing New Leaf, number 23 is Fire Emblem III Houses, number 24 is Red, Green and Blue. For Pokemon, number 25 is Tetris, number 26 is Pokemon Black and White, number 27 is Dragon Quest XI, Echoes of an Elusive Age, number 28 is Mother II, not Mother III, Mother II, number 29 is Okami, and number three, interestingly enough, is Apex Legends. And you can go on down the list, there might be some surprising additions and missing games in that list to you. Obviously this is based on Japanese likes and dislikes and I do think that there does seem to be an affinity more to more recent releases. That's why we're seeing things like, I think, Pokemon Sword and Shield ranking so high compared to other Pokemon games. But still, this is obviously just one country and this select user group making this pick. Obviously your given top 100 is probably gonna be significantly different from this top 100. Although, obviously I have some bias here because I think Breath of the Wild is actually the greatest game of all time. So it'd be at number one. This just kind of added some additional validation for me. Now I do think as we head into 2022, I do wanna actually throw a little bit of this poll at you guys. Now I don't want you to go ahead and give me your top 100 games of all time because that could take quite some time to compile and a lot of debates and a lot of stuff. I mean, maybe throughout 2022, maybe we'll put together some sort of polling competition where maybe we create a bracket and we can kind of rank games that way. I don't know, I think that could be a lot of fun. But what I actually wanna do instead is talk more about what your top 10 games of all time are. And that can even take some debates. So take your time, go down to the comments and let me know what your top 10 is. And maybe, maybe if this video can get, I don't know, let's say, let's go with 700 likes on this video. At the end of the next video I make, I will give you my top 10 games of all time. That's right, I'm not gonna give it to you now. You're gonna have to earn that one. All right, folks, I am with Andy Rubble Jets from Nintendo Prime. I wanna thank you so much for tuning in. Hopefully you enjoy the content. I'm getting closer in the year. What is today, the 30th? I mean, man, the first is right around the corner. We got New Year's Eve tomorrow. 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