{"id":118862,"date":"2020-10-02T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/talks_about_minecraft_in_smash_bros_began_at_least_five_years_ago"},"modified":"2020-10-02T02:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T02:55:00","slug":"talks-about-minecraft-in-smash-bros-began-at-least-five-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/02\/talks-about-minecraft-in-smash-bros-began-at-least-five-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks About Minecraft In Smash Bros. Began &#8220;At Least&#8221; Five Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0fd5fe0358c1e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0fd5fe0358c1e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0fd5fe0358c1e\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>In Masahiro Sakurai&#8217;s words &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/minecraft\">Minecraft<\/a><\/strong>, the best-selling game in the world, is coming to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t a decision made overnight, though. Daniel &#8216;Kappische&#8217; Kaplan &#8211; a former business developer for Mojang &#8211; recently revealed &#8220;talks&#8221; about bringing Steve and co to Nintendo&#8217;s all-star fighting series began &#8220;at least&#8221; five years ago.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3 is not enough. At least five<\/span>\u2014 Kaplan (@Kappische) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kappische\/status\/1311773807175180296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In saying this, he doesn&#8217;t know when exactly &#8220;implementation&#8221; started. While Sakurai didn&#8217;t share any information about when the team began working on this new fighter, he did briefly touch on Nintendo&#8217;s involvement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Someone from Nintendo will come to my workplace and say&#8230; &#8216;Mr. Sakurai&#8230; Surely you can put Minecraft in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate?&#8217; while peering at me over their glasses. They make it sound easy. I guess they think this all happens by magic or something. Don&#8217;t they know what kind of game Minecraft is? The wizardry required to make it work in this game&#8230; It&#8217;s impossible!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So, I laid it out straight for them. I said, &#8216;Yes, I can do it.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The rumours about Steve coming to Smash have also been circulating for a number of years now. Last January, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/random_microsoft_really_digs_super_smash_bros_ultimate\">official Xbox Twitter account sent fans into a frenzy<\/a> when it showed some love to Smash Bros. while making a subtle reference to Minecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Minecraft has been recognised as one of the greatest and most influential video games of all-time since its arrival more than a decade ago, so it&#8217;s fantastic to see Steve will <em>finally<\/em> be joining the battle in Smash Bros. Ultimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Masahiro Sakurai&#8217;s words &#8211; Minecraft, the best-selling game in the world, is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This wasn&#8217;t a decision made overnight, though. Daniel &#8216;Kappische&#8217; Kaplan &#8211; a former business developer for Mojang &#8211; recently revealed &#8220;talks&#8221; about bringing Steve and co to Nintendo&#8217;s all-star fighting series began &#8220;at least&#8221; five years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}