Random: Smash Bros. Director Masahiro Sakurai Really Likes Coca-Cola Zero

What kind of human being lives on Coke Zero?! The same kind that works on high adrenaline fighting games for over twenty years!

...I actually see why others frequently complain about slow news days now.

So nintendolife managed to extract two articles from this interview so far...

Green tea would probably be healthier than zero cola, but I wish him well.

Is this a hint for the last smash character?

Is the aspartam fear over now?

@MarkyVigoroth I'm surprised I haven't seen an article here about Nintendo sweeping the top 30 in Japan.

@Friendly hahaha

Coke Zero tastes fine and then you have a can of the real stuff and you’re like SUGAR

@DaniPooo It's poison to normal humans. For Sakurai it just makes him stronger.

Coke Zero Vanilla, ohhhyaa..

I feel like Sakurai is revealing a lot about himself, must be feeling more laid back after all the Smash Bros. dlc is done. Is this the new Sakurai we will be seeing?

Ok........
We know we want to know who the last character is, but is this kind of notes from Sakurai necessary?
The only thing missing is that want to know about ..., ok, I better not give ideas .....

p.d: I prefer Pepsi, XD

I feel like... I want them to stop using Coca-Cola Zero to say what they want to say. Even if it's a joke. You shouldn't use other people's soda for your own principles.

Plot twist, the final character announced will be Pepsiman.
Oh, wait. That's Pepsi, not Coca Cola...

Idk even know what to say.

Just saying you could write opinion pieces. Or just be open and admit there's a slow news day and just have a special article style for it. Make it fun. Gather the thoughts of the team on something nifty and write about it? You already do soapboxes what's the staff playing so why not something like staff recommends and have them make quick thoughts. Could be on anything. Shows books games. Maybe highlight the thing you gotta keep coming back to or lesser known entities.

Make it like "on slow days nintendolife can't help but think about.... blank."

On slow days Nintendo life can't help but think about what is even in those minecraft books in retail stores? Why do I keep trying Buster only in Megaman x?

Hey guys we have are first article for the Coca cola tag! YAY 😆

Some needs to meme him loving Coke and disliking water (The Drake template) lol

Now we know why he needs to be hooked up to IVs occasionally.

Soooo…. Pepsi Man as the final smash character?

@Anti-Matter Next Smash DLC confirmed Coca-Cola Kid, from a Sonic reskinned game for the Game Gear.

the obsession with this guy by the writers on here is a little weird! what a dull story and of course idiocy to live off diet coke, no wonder he is getting ill.

I mean, Coke Zero IS pretty good. It makes Diet Coke taste like ass in comparison.

Coca Cola contains sugar substitutes such as aspartame and acesulfame. They're neurotoxins, i.e. brain poisons.

I prefer Pepsi Max but I can dig it

Meh, I misread the title and thought it said he disliked coca-cola, was about to say "Pepsi ftw!"....I'm sad now. TwT

Try harder, Nintendolife.

Nintendolife, this is feeble even for you.

I have a strong feeling that someone here is being very sarcastic. 🤷‍♂️😝

You know how he looks 25 but he's actually 51? I guess you could say he's being saved by zero! The song i mean. Look it up kids if you didn't get that.

Cola zero madr fot aliens.

This man never sleeps, works insane hours, only drinks Coke Zero and still he doesn’t age.

At first I thought that this must be some kind of black magic but then I read elsewhere that he doesn’t have kids which pretty much closes the case for me.

I’m surprised you didn’t see it either @blecch… https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/08/switch_takes_japans_entire_top_30_software_chart_the_first_console_to_do_so_since_1988

I do like coke-zero's taste but, and I know this comes across as completely ridiculous from someone who drinks pepsi-max as much as I do: Coca cola Zero, without fail, gives me some major toothpain that lasts for weeks to the point where I've started to totally refuse drinking the stuff. It's really weird but no other soda does that for me.

Does that mean we’ll never get Pepsi-Man in Smash? Sad day for mankind…

Pepsi for TV Smash Game

Well at least I'm not the only one that doesn't really drink water. Instead of Coke Zero I live on apple juice.

Fat, sweaty nerds everywhere rejoice! He's just like us! Water tastes like ****, pop is where it's at. I'm more of a Pepsi Zero guy, but I enjoy Coke Zero from time to time. You water losers are so lame, boring, and basic.

Does anyone know how many hours a person can survive without caffeine before their organs start to shut down? I love Coke Zero, just like my man Masahiro.

smh, you need your daily dose of water a day, clears the system out and leaves your skin feeling great, not so much from this guy and his teeth 😂😂😂

@Dromosus maybe he's a vampire? 😂 his skin is quite pale which i've noticed

@iLikeUrAttitude THIS JUST IN Mr. Sakurai is currently taking a huge dump in his golden toilet!!!!!

They talked about life and relationships between game creators in the interview, and all you could get from that was that he only drinks Coca-Cola Zero.

I run on Pepsi Max, myself

For all the sniping at Nintendolife over this article, I did think it was the most newsworthy tidbit in the whole interview. Water? He can't drink water??? Is he not an organism?

So, Sakurai ages in reverse, is incompatible with water consumption, and requires only sugar-syrup to function.

He's an android, isn't he?

@Anti-Matter We will get the Coke Polar Bear.

@Illusion To get more Coke Zero into his body.

I'm quite the opposite, I almost exclusively drink water ( aside from the occasional tea and/or coffee).

I just put a bit of diluting juice in a my water.

Saves me having to overdose on coke everyday. (I save that until the evening when I'm gaming)

@NEStalgia I'm genuinely curious if Sakurai is a diabetic of some sort?

Because hearing him say that his body has adjusted to only drinking soda water instead of real water makes me concerned about his long term health. It's like if that's something you've been consuming since you were a child, then there's no wonder why your body might reject any other substance that isn't what you've adjusted yourself to drinking.

It's like this one guy I saw a program on, I think it was TLC or something, where he would not eat anything else besides pepperoni pizza and he said that eating anything else would make him feel sick.

Just saying, maybe he needs to readjust his body so that he will live a longer healthier life.

@Clamango Sakurai has been said to be a workaholic, much like in most of Japanese business-related culture. I think because of how much he stressed out his body that he maybe got an addiction to caffeine because he has worked himself to exhaustion when he was developing some of the Smash games, so if he doesn't get that boost then his body probably doesn't function normally. That's just my speculation, at least.

You know he's NOT a god, right?

I don't like Coke Zero or Pepsi Zero, the only reason for me to drink soda in the first place was for the sugary taste, not the carbonated water, caffeine, and fructose.

@fafonio more likely the Coca Cola polar bear

lol smart man, letting everyone know to always give him Coke Zero. New memes incoming lmao

Coca-Cola Joins Smash!

Just drink water, man.

Aspartame all the way huh? The guy is killing himself...

@Friendly Well, now we know it ain’t Pepsiman...

@russell-marlow I think it’s a joke. Water also “makes me sick” so I drink seltzer or add lemon or flavors to it. I’m sure he’s not cooking with coke zero haha.

@Ocaz They could have a "Slow Day" tag. 😆

lol...so many replys "Removed - unconstructive"

...on an article about a guy liking soda.

I love the internet! 😆

I really needed to know that. Man, this is some IMPORTANT NEWS!

@Goofus that's not very constructive of you

Proof that sakurai is the next evolution of human.

I don’t really like water, tap water is bland to me, so I drink bottled purified water from stores like Walmart or Sam’s here in the U.S. However, as for soda, any kind will do, except for diet sodas, I do like Coca-Cola, Sprite, and Barq’s root beer (A&W’s kind just doesn’t sit right with me). But technically water is good for the body, right? There’s no such thing as too much water, is there?

More info Pepsi myself (full sugah version pls!) Or beer of course.