Super Smash Bros. creator "can't really imagine" a sequel without him

Masahiro Sakurai, creator of the Super Smash Bros. series, has touched on a potential followup to Ultimate, saying that Nintendo would need to "figure out" how to make it. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was obviously a massive undertaking for Sakurai and his team, as it brought back every single character ever featured, and added a bunch more too. It's a culmination of a lot of video game history, and it's a tough act to follow. Sakurai seemingly decided to not jump straight back into game development last year, though, as he started a YouTube channel focused on… well, game development, instead. And in the developer's most recent video, he spoke about the team behind Smash Bros. Brawl, also reiterating that he doesn't think the series can go on without him. In the video Sakurai did note it was "safe to assume," that there will be another game, but Nintendo will need to "figure out" how to make it. "For an ongoing game series, not using the original development studio and instead assembling a new team around a freelance director is an extremely rare occurrence," Sakurai said of Smash Bros. Brawl, the Nintendo Wii title for which he did serve as a freelance director. Read more