Masahiro Sakurai's Recent Toy Purchase Is Related To His Current Project

Nonspecific Action Figure Adventures coming soon

Custom Robo 2?

Kid Icarus Uprising were all about the fancy guns...

I really want Nintendo to dabble in the robot genre. Bandai Namco currently owns the field with Gundam and Super Robot Wars.

Obviously this isn't necessarily a preditction, more of a hope but wouldn't it be awesome if he was working on a new Metroid title.

@ottospooky Federation Force 2: Samus Aran and the Salty Tears

Nah, seriously, Sakurai working on a Meteoid title would be a megaton.

OMG HE'S MAKING A MECHA! WRONG ONE SAKURAI. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BUY THE ONE WITH THE DRILL! THE DRRRRRRILL!

Wasn't there a rumour the other day that said Metroid is a thing and it will surprise us who is making it?I had a search there and couldn't find anything,i'm sure I read that.A Sakurai developed Metroid would definitely be a surprise,a welcome one at that.

Kid Icarus or Metroid would be amazing. I'd be (almost) equally excited to see a fresh IP though.

I'm seeing Samus in a flying suit!!

Custom Robo

Will it be a game that tries to attract a more mature audience? I think it's the gun just he's interested in, not the mech or robot.

I love this guy!

I always look forward to anything he does.

Seeing as it's specifically the rifle that he's using, then I doubt it has any direct connections to anime or mecha... and the rifle is a fairly unusual design in comparison to conventional firearms, so it's understandable for him to buy the entire figure just for that.
KI:U was a fairly successful shooter, and was quite different from his other games, so he's probably just continuing in that direction with another shooter... but it doesn't seem to fit with any existing Nintendo IPs, so could easily be something completely new.

Maybe he's doing something with Project Giant Robot?

Well, it sounds like there might be more to Project Giant Robot than we expected.

Maybe it's Starfox or Metroid? Either that or it's a new IP, and a new IP from Sakurai sounds great.

If it has Mechas, it has a great future, at least in Japan.
I won't complain about them... I love my skell in XCX!

@Parkour_LMan
Might be Custom Robo 3.
There was one on Gamecube and one on DS

@SomeBitTripFan How could you ever underestimate something called Project Giant Robot? I mean, it's got the words GIANT ROBOT in it - what else could you possibly ever want!?!

This kind of rumour is worthy of speculation, and especially as it is him.

Saying it now..

New characters for smashbros, many new stages, more music and story mode for the Switch ultimate smashbros edition lol

He's getting his hands on Splatoon.

I sense another wasted character slot in the next inevitable Smash game that will come out regardless of Sakurai's neurotic complaining.

@AlphaJaguar Custom Robo?

That games collection... how does he find the time to play half of his purchases from the past decade?

Also, his Smash amiibo collection seems to be lined up in the order the characters were revealed. Neat.

@Solid_Stannis How does talking about one's physical issues and the stresses of working on a major title remotely compare to complaints stemming from relatively baseless distress brought upon by a mental disorder?
Wait, "another wasted character slot." This isn't worth pursuing, is it?

@CrazedCavalier I've never seen an ostensibly adult man whine and complain about a development cycle on a video game like he does. He gets hung up on the weirdest, meaningless things and seems to include an aside on how lamentable his lot in life is in seemingly every update. I feel sorry for whomever has to schedule their work day after someone as unprofessional as him.

He just comes off as an addict alternately to self-pity or attention, mostly both. I can't respect a man like that, nor can I abide the haughty opinion he has of his own work. He is his own worst enemy and has done little to warrant passive-agressive defending from random people on the internet who don't even know him.

@Solid_Stannis I swear if your idea of a "wasted character slot' is dark pit or something....in the case of clones it's a clone or nothing basically as the dev time for a clone is vastly lower than the dev time for a completely new character.

Also "wasted character slot" better not just mean "a character I don't like"

I don't think it's metroid or kid icarus. The type of wepon he is using as reference doesn't really fit any of those universes. It's probably a new ip. I can't wait to see what sakurai has up his sleeve!

@Solid_Stannis

The guy is passionate about his work. I feel like his comments are perfectly fine by and large. I don't see how it's "whining" to talk about how much work goes into a smash bros game. Game development is a often brutal exhausting industry that oft has cruelly long hours.

I think people are just sick of people ragging on Sakurai all the time. It gets to a disgusting degree sometimes how much people can go on and on about it.

He is by no means perfect(where is my adventure mode?) but I think you are being a bit mean spirited and perhaps petty and ignorant in your assessment of a man who you know about largely from a handful of interviews and have never met.

@Parkour_LMan Goddammit, don't get my hopes up! D=!

I just had to look for the cat, lovely cat! Lets hope Sakurai makes something great for Switch.

Wait! I just thought of something! What if it's a new FZERO game?

To be honest even I'm having a hard time figuring out how this might be related to Kirby Air Ride 2. Rifle Star? Yeah I'll go with that.

Gotcha Force 2 (in some fever dream parallel universe in which I hope to soon reside).

Lol, Custom Robo as a guess is a good one. Haven't seen that franchise in a minute. Perhaps a sequel to KIU?

A Nintendo mech game could be lots of fun.

So kid icarus is getting a mecha right? No? Am I the only one reaching for that?

Yes... inspiration. Now you can call buying toys a work expense. (I have no idea if Japan's tax system works that way)

Super interesting. And that cat is soooo keeeyute! I saw one mention of amiibo though, no idea what Sakurai's response was, of course, as it was in Japanese.

Kid Icarus Gundam? xD

If it's a new IP or an Uprising sequel I will be thrilled! Uprising had tons of guns and cannons. Even the blades were basically guns, and some of the staffs looked like guns(Don't believe me? Look up the Flintlock Staff) and it also had giant mech things sort of like that action figure. So it's a very possible connection, methinks.

Sin and Punishment?? )

Cue the "confirmed for Smash Switch" jokes.

@Parkour_LMan
@Xaessya
More like Custom Robo 6, if anything. There had been two on N64, one on GCN, one on GBA and one on DS.

Holy crap how well is all those games sorted out and all the devices and cables also. That's just genius organizing, I wish I could do something similar instead of the mess my house is currently in.