New Super Smash Bros. Report Gives Update on New Game

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There’s a fresh buzz about the upcoming Super Smash Bros. game, offering some insights into its progress and delays. Since Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was launched on Nintendo Switch in 2018, it marks seven years since the last release – matching the gap between Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001) and Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008). However, with no official announcement yet, this wait is likely to extend further as the next title in the series is still in its initial stages of development, if it’s being developed at all.

Masahiro Sakurai, creator and director of Super Smash Bros., along with his team at Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco, are presently developing Kirby Air Riders for the Nintendo Switch 2, due later this year. Given that they’re working on Kirby Air Riders, it implies they aren’t actively engaged in creating the next Super Smash Bros. game. This doesn’t bode well for fans eager to play the upcoming Super Smash Bros. title soon. However, this isn’t fresh news; we do have a new unconfirmed report about the matter.

A new piece of information suggests that the creation of Kirby Air Riders might have been a compromise reached between Sakurai and Nintendo, as reported by YouTuber Kiwi Talkz. Allegedly, Sakurai has been feeling exhausted from developing Super Smash Bros. games for some time now. To persuade him to work on another Super Smash Bros. title, it is claimed that he requested Kirby Air Riders be developed first, a demand he was able to make due to the fact that Nintendo does not have anyone else who can match his skills in this area.

According to Kiwi Talkz, the game in question was a labor of love for creator Sakurai. Due to his exhaustion from working on Super Smash Bros. continuously since 2012, he proposed a deal: if given the opportunity to work on Kirby Air Rider first, he would return to develop another installment of Smash Bros. Nintendo finds themselves in a tricky situation with Smash Bros as Sakurai is indispensable at this time.

Could what you’re hearing be accurate? However, since we can’t confirm its authenticity, it’s advisable to approach this fresh intel with a bit of skepticism. It wouldn’t be all that astonishing if it were true, given that the details align with earlier speculations and even some statements from Sakurai himself.

Currently, there’s no official response from Nintendo regarding this recent speculation. It’s unlikely that this situation will alter soon, but should anything change, we’ll make sure to modify our report accordingly.

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2025-06-26 12:40