Sakurai says work on Smash Ultimate will be finished after latest DLC, no future Smash games planned

AkiraKurusu · Feb 20, 2020

Pipistrele said:
That's true! But still, while people stay with Smash for good and polished gameplay, rarely anyone gets into it for any other reason than "my favorite characters are here". Same for hype waves around the game - it's always about new characters and cameos, rather than new mechanics.

I rarely boot up Ultimate because of the dire lack of singleplayer content; sure, I can fight CPUs in tourneys or regular Smash bouts, but there's no Subspace Emissary. There's no classic Classic Mode. There's no All-Star Mode.
The only thing Ultimate has for single players is the World of Light, and that's just...incredibly 'meh'. I've finished it twice, and I've had the game for over a year now, if not two maybe.

I'd much rather boot up Brawl and enjoy the Subspace Emissary, but the Wii is tucked away somewhere and the home menu is a bitch to control due to the nonfunctional motion controls. I'd rather boot up 4 Wii U and actually have a worthwhile Classic and All-Star. Ultimate...the only things it really has over Brawl and 4 Wii U are a lacking of random tripping (whatever), polish, no cut characters, and more fan-favourites like Banjo and Joker. Otherwise, it's just yet another Super Smash Bros. game, y'know?

Deleted User · Feb 20, 2020

Gimme Linkle and Dante!

Foxi4 · Feb 20, 2020

I've heard that whopper before - "buy this one, it's totally the last one, pinky swear"!

Silent_Gunner · Feb 20, 2020

Foxi4 said:
I've heard that whopper before - "buy this one, it's totally the last one, pinky swear"!

You trying to say that Nintendo is a yakuza clan or something?

Foxi4 · Feb 20, 2020

Silent_Gunner said:
You trying to say that Nintendo is a yakuza clan or something?

Not really. They're just a video game company, and Smash is one of their highest grossing IP's. Spoilers, there's another one coming after Ultimate, and another one after that, in perpetuity until it doesn't make them stacks of money anymore or the company dissolves, neither scenario is anywhere in sight.

Silent_Gunner · Feb 20, 2020

Foxi4 said:
pinky swear"!

r/woosh.

Foxi4 · Feb 20, 2020

Silent_Gunner said:
r/woosh.

It might've been that kind of a pinky swear, sure, but Nintendo knives are kid-friendly and made out of very thin plastic.

horokeusama · Feb 20, 2020

ignare said:
I honestly never understood why people were ever hyping for a sequel past Melee.

Just let melee die for god's sake.

Foxi4 · Feb 20, 2020

horokeusama said:
Just let melee die for god's sake.

It's only the best Smash there ever was or will be, no biggy.

horokeusama · Feb 20, 2020

Foxi4 said:
It's only the best Smash there ever was or will be, no biggy.

In all seriousness, I think its amazing for pro players but Ultimate is being awesome to attend those people needs too.

jt_1258 · Feb 20, 2020

MikaDubbz said:
Depending on how the next system works, it might not even need a port at that, it could just function like a PS4 game on a PS4 Pro, or an Xbone game on an Xbone X. Meaning that the presumed Switch 2 may be capable of playing any Switch 1 game, and if the game recognizes it is on the better hardware, it can then output in better framerate and/or resolution. And at that point, maybe they'd decide to just pick up where they had last left off with Ultimate, continuing to add content to it, but the new content only being accessible on the new hardware if it starts to become too taxing or they want to help push sales of the new hardware. Seems like the logical direction to go with Smash honestly if they're going to just continue with the series in this same direction without any radical new changes.

What your suggesting is more like a 3ds to new 3ds transition but maybe a ds to 3ds transition could work better, still retaining the performance boost stuff though. It would be a clean cut between the two but with backwards compatibility still like between the ps4 and ps5. Though I am a little iffy on the platform specific dlc though. That will stab a hard divide into the community. With both smash 4 and ultimate so far dlc has not stopped 1 player from playing with another if only one of them has a certain piece of dlc. Platform specific dlc would likely do that though.

Foxi4 · Feb 20, 2020

horokeusama said:
In all seriousness, I think its amazing for pro players but Ultimate is being awesome to attend those people needs too.

It's a post made in jest, to be fair. Smash is a great little party brawler, it's not to be treated seriously - I believe the creators themselves said as much.

Draxikor · Feb 20, 2020

@AkiraKurusu With a simple cheat you can negate the random tripping in Brawl unless is for an item like the bananas

digipimp75 · Feb 20, 2020

Smash is overrated

Clydefrosch · Feb 20, 2020

Well yeah. Till the next console, but I don't mind porting this with some dlc

MikaDubbz · Feb 20, 2020

jt_1258 said:
What your suggesting is more like a 3ds to new 3ds transition but maybe a ds to 3ds transition could work better, still retaining the performance boost stuff though. It would be a clean cut between the two but with backwards compatibility still like between the ps4 and ps5. Though I am a little iffy on the platform specific dlc though. That will stab a hard divide into the community. With both smash 4 and ultimate so far dlc has not stopped 1 player from playing with another if only one of them has a certain piece of dlc. Platform specific dlc would likely do that though.

I dunno, if there is a gap of like 5 years between the end of this cycle, and then starting up the cycle after the next system launches, I don't think there'd be that much of an issue. Sure there would be some that are mad, but at the end of the day, there'd be less people upset about that than there would be people mad that they'd have to buy a deluxe version of Ultimate again for the new system which would then still get it's own new content regardless.

pedro702 · Feb 20, 2020

JayMathis said:
If it's Sakurai's last Smash they should end the series. No way can someone else step in and even get close.

yeah lets end the series that is always like the top 3rd selling game on each console that is came out, smash sells more than zelda or xenoblade,etc, it only looses to mario platformers and mario kart most of the generations.

So killing a top selling it is ridiculous, they might as well kill zelda and pokemon too becuase the original devs passed the torchs long ago...

Draxikor · Feb 20, 2020

pedro702 said:
yeah lets end the series that is always like the top 3rd selling game on each console that is came out, smash sells more than zelda or xenoblade,etc, it only looses to mario platformers and mario kart most of the generations.

So killing a top selling it is ridiculous, they might as well kill zelda and pokemon too becuase the original devs passed the torchs long ago...

Resident Evil, Star Wars, Silent Hill, Castlevania, that's what happened when you change the director.

pedro702 · Feb 20, 2020

Draxikor said:
Resident Evil, Star Wars, Silent Hill, Castlevania, that's what happened when you change the director.

resident evil is very debatable some people think only the first 3 are good i like the 4 the most and 7 is preety good as well so i dont see an issue with it.

castlevania had the same director when simons quest came out and that sucked ass... so again nothing changed castlevania games have been good without the original direction like symphony of the night among others.

Star wars is again worst example since the original prequel trilogy does exist with same director...

I could go on and on and on.

Sometimes a fresh take on something might even be a breeze of fresh air.

Draxikor · Feb 20, 2020

pedro702 said:
resident evil is very debatable some people think only the first 3 are good i like the 4 the most and 7 is preety good as well so i dont see an issue with it.

castlevania had the same director when simons quest came out and that sucked ass... so again nothing changed castlevania games have been good without the original direction like symphony of the night among others.

Star wars is again worst example since the original prequel trilogy does exist with same director...

I could go on and on and on.

Sometimes a fresh take on something might even be a breeze of fresh air.

Is a 50/50 it would work or don't, the thing is if this happen in other time sure it would be not so bad but in this time seeing the actual game tastes...i'm not so positive about that, maybe the next smash games without Sakurai wouldn't be so bad but hardly will feel like a smash, maybe i'm wrong but...

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