Japanese game director Masahiro Sakurai - responsible for some of the greatest crossovers in video game history - has recently hit one million followers on Twitter. Yes, he's now got a million fans checking out his social media account on a daily basis.
According to Sakurai's profile, he originally joined Twitter in 2010 and has grown in popularity alongside the Super Smash Bros. video game series. He notified everyone of his latest milestone in a tweet. Here's a rough Google translation:
Masahiro Sakurai - "And the number of Twitter followers was secretly over 1000000. Thank you very much!"
If that wasn't already enough, his second silver play button for his other YouTube channel account has also been delivered. Here's a look:
Sakurai opened both of these YouTube channels at the end of last month as a way to give back to the video game industry and also assist aspiring developers. Both his English and Japanese channels quickly surpassed 100,000 subscribers each and he now has a combined total of more than 800k subscribers.
Are you one of Sakurai's many followers/subscribers? Leave a comment down below.
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Congrats to him! He deserves it
Congrats. Nice for him to do this.
Bit unfair to call it random,
it is largely down to his own endeavours.
@Uncle_Franklin right? I'm super happy for him but what did they think would happen... He had a huge advantage. It was bound to happen
@Uncle_Franklin no thats the category of article, such as news reminder and video
I have yet to watch his stuff, I have to get to it.
But it’s all vary deserved.
I know he's a talented guy, but the cult (and the daily articles worshiping him) is starting to get annoying.
I have 50 twitter followers.
What amazing news nintendo life
The man is a genius and deserves all the accolades he received.
Another slow news day at NL. I assume there is a quota of stories that have to be posted her for analytical and marketing purposes. Because really… who cares? “Famous game developer gets lots of followers, because famous game developer”.
@TheFox yet here we both are, annoyed but clicking to keep the Adsense money flowing to NL lol.
I don’t understand why people care. Sakurai does this sakurai does that. 🤷🏻♂️
@SwitchedOn_Games exactly 😆🤦🏼
@TheFox Personally, I don't see a problem with it. We get basically no insight into the lives and perspectives of the big names that are actually Nintendo employees, so Sakurai presents a pretty unique opportunity as someone who has so much history with the company, but isn't as heavily restricted by their rules. Besides, we just got a Direct, so there probably won't be much else to talk about any time soon.
@SwitchedOn_Games I do feel a little embarrassed about that.
@Baler Sakurai is the japanese Kojima. There's a big cult around his personality.
His YouTube channel is such a simple, brilliant concept. Short, informative, to the point videos about game design. Very well deserved.
@Dragnoran
Would seem to fall under news to me.
@glaemay I know but still…..
The tiny crybaby hate cult on every article about him is so whiny. Literally just a game site promoting one of the highest regarded developer's achievements in a small article you could easily scroll past yet y'all have to flap your gums about how sour you are instead of moving on with your life as if this article threatened your mom or something. Wahhh.
@glaemay Kojima is also the Japanese Kojima, because Sakurai and Kojima are both Japanese. O_o
Is that a Kirby amiibo between his silver play buttons??
Congrats & well-deserved Superb Sakurai.
Hopefully he becomes inspired to bless those followers with a Fighters Pass 3 & 4 for Smash Ultimate. Let's get the total up to 100!
... Wun can only hope.
That's...not very many.
Seeing as how kids who react to videos of others reacting have more.
Guess it just means as a collective, we are a bad species.
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