The book, which was supervised by sakurai himself, will also include various other written sections about sakurai and the games industry, including a timeline of sakurai's life and an article about working as a game developer Nintendo has some of the most barebone options in their games that don't really get mentioned enough and hopefully sakurai influences other dev's as well. There are currently no known plans for an official english translation.
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This is more sakurai being sakurai, just like the air riders drop in nintendo music
This is all stuff he's done with his games, he's just more folded into the standard nintendo structure now
He's had his own marketing structure/cadence since like… melee i'm still pretty sure the weirdness with prime 4 is down to it being revealed waaaay too early, nintendo having to keep people confident. Kirby air riders from masahiro sakurai announced for nintendo switch 2 idontbeatgames apr 2, 2025 discussion gaming forum It is a thing that is near and dear to his heart He wants people to be able to have fun playing games no matter what, it's quite literally his life's passion.
To be honest, it's a bit of a long shot I think we have come to a situation where it is not sustainable to try to produce games on the large scale that we currently do, because it is too much work I feel that we cannot continue like this, but the only effective breakthrough i can think of at this point is generative ai. Sakurai kirby is so much cuter than current kirby
The air riders avatar in the nintendo today widget (that was visible once so far i think) has that special something that makes me excited.
Masahiro sakurai talks about an experience many thought led to smash (it didn't) Bodying someone in the king of fighters '95 in front of her partner That it inspired sakurai is a great thing