{"id":14622,"date":"2018-03-09T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/masahiro_sakurai_confirms_hes_working_on_super_smash_bros_switch"},"modified":"2018-03-09T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:30:00","slug":"masahiro-sakurai-confirms-hes-working-on-super-smash-bros-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/09\/masahiro-sakurai-confirms-hes-working-on-super-smash-bros-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Masahiro Sakurai Confirms He&#8217;s Working On Super Smash Bros. Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/masahiro_sakurai_confirms_hes_working_on_super_smash_bros_switch\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resize\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w3Gt42kVgCw?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Smash Bros.<\/strong> creator\u00a0Masahiro Sakurai has revealed via <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sora_Sakurai\/status\/971885028245307392\">Twitter<\/a> that he is working on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros\">Switch version<\/a> of the popular fighting franchise, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/super_smash_bros_for_switch_is_coming_this_year_and_its_got_inklings\">officially announced<\/a> during yesterday&#8217;s Nintendo Direct.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendosoup.com\/masahiro-sakurai-working-super-smash-bros-switch\/\">Nintendo Soup<\/a>,\u00a0Sakurai says he has been working on the game &#8220;in silence&#8221; everyday, and says that more information will be forthcoming, if fans are patient. He did not, however, state the role he has on the game&#8217;s team; recently, he said that he may consider moving into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/famitsu_interview_hints_that_masahiro_sakurai_could_step_back_from_directing_games\">consulting role<\/a> on future entries.<\/p>\n<p>The game is launching this year, and will feature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/splatoon\"><strong>Splatoon&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> Inklings as playable characters for the first time ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Smash Bros. creator\u00a0Masahiro Sakurai has revealed via Twitter that he is working on the Switch version of the popular fighting franchise, which was officially announced during yesterday&#8217;s Nintendo Direct. According to Nintendo Soup,\u00a0Sakurai says he has been working on the game &#8220;in silence&#8221; everyday, and says that more information will be forthcoming, if [&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-14622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14622","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=14622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}