Sakurai Says To Expect The Smash Bros. Ultimate Character Announcements To Slow Down

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Sakurai Says To Expect The Smash Bros. Ultimate Character Announcements To Slow Down

By Sato . September 26, 2018 . 3:15am

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was revealed back in March of this year and we’ve already had nine newcomers announced for the game, but Sakurai says that it might slow down until its release. [Thanks, Ryokutya2089.]

“We announced Isabelle in the Nintendo Direct,” Sakurai wrote in his Weekly Famitsu column. “… however, it would be a mistake to think that the new character announcements will keep going [at this pace] until Smash Bros. releases. We may have been a little trigger-happy so we’ll be living modestly from here on out.”

While on the subject of how close the game is from going gold (meaning complete and ready to ship) Sakurai wrote “It’ll be complete in just a little longer… or so we expect!”

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate launches for Nintendo Switch on December 7, 2018. Check our previous report for some talk about a supposedly leaked character.

ElboMan on September 26th, 2018 at 11:16 UTC »

At least maybe people will start taking his statement of "I hope you weren't expecting too many newcomers" seriously. No more fake leaks of like 10 characters at a time when up until now he only even released 9

mjmannella on September 26th, 2018 at 11:09 UTC »

Guys, maybe Sakurai wasn't lying when he said not to expect too many new fighters.

roydgriffin on September 26th, 2018 at 10:48 UTC »

For those at work:

“We announced Isabelle in the Nintendo Direct,” Sakurai wrote in his Weekly Famitsu column. “… however, it would be a mistake to think that the new character announcements will keep going [at this pace] until Smash Bros. releases. We may have been a little trigger-happy so we’ll be living modestly from here on out.”