Sakurai: Base next Smash Bros. expectations on Kid Icarus, can improve much from Brawl, more
It’s going to be a long wait for the Smash Bros. title. Not only will Masahiro Sakurai’s team be working on one version for Wii U, but they’ll also be creating the first entry in the franchise for a handheld.
Kid Icarus: Uprising, Project Sora’s current project, will be released before the end of the year. Once that’s out of the way, Sakurai’s team will likely move on to Smash Bros. soon after. Sakurai said in a recent interview that “you can base your expectations of the new Smash Bros. once you see how well-made Kid Icarus is.” He also stated that the team can improve “many things” from Brawl.
“I will think about this once Kid Icarus is complete. But as it is a game of a competitive nature, I do not think that any one person should have an advantage. …There are many things that can be improved upon even in Brawl. Also, I think you can base your expectations of the new Smash Bros. once you see how well-made Kid Icarus is. The director of each game is the same, but because I regularly change my team around after projects, we will be able to see how good the team is then.”
It’s much too soon to be talking about the character roster, but when he was asked which other characters can be included in Smash Bros., Sakurai said:
“That is completely undecided, but it is true that Nintendo has not created many new characters lately.”
