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Why is this not going to change anytime soon? Well, because the creator of the series and the director of the series, Masahiro Sakurai — plus his team — are busy working on Kirby Air Riders, a passion project for the former and an opportunity to break from Super Smash Bros. This Nintendo Switch 2 game is set to release this year, and only then will work presumably begin on the next Super Smash Bros. game.
Couple this with Sakurai’s well-documented fatigue and his numerous reservations about where the series can go after Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — who can take the torch from him as well — and the outlook isn’t exactly great for fans of the 26-year-old Nintendo series.
“I don’t think we’ll see it for a while, and if we do Sakurai might not be involved and the scope of the game may be entirely different from Ultimate,” writes one fan about a potential Super Smash Bros. Switch 2 release date. “I think people should prepare to be underwhelmed by future smash rosters in terms of quantity.”
“I think it’s extremely unlikely that a new Smash Bros is announced this year and even more unlikely that it would release next year,” adds a second fan. “I think we are multiple years away from a new Smash Bros. In fact, I think we will see a new Zelda game before we see a new Smash Bros game… and that’s looking at maybe 4 years?”
One comment, with many votes of approval, pens the game in for a 2028 or 2029 release date. In other words, many fans are preparing to hibernate. That said, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate only had about one year of pre-production and two years of full development. To this end, if the game has been in pre-production, we could see it out in 2027, but this seems unlikely at this point given all the context.
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