Sakurai Acknowledges End Of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Development

Top notch game, updates and team behind SSB serie. End of an era or a surprise for Switch NX 2.0 Ultimate 3d from Sakurai??

Just for the record, there was nothing MAJOR about this update. It changed absolutely nothing with the game.

But more importantly, the final Spirit Event is still next week, right? So... this isn't the last we've heard for SSBU.

I got the game in December 2020, played it to death, and put almost 300 hours into it. (Rookie numbers, I know) Got all the challenges and Spirits as well.
My infinite thanks to Sakurai and the team who made Ultimate. This will always be my favorite Smash Bros game.

Now that it's finally complete time to give us a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Deluxe Edition with everything on the cartridge. Easy money for you right there Nintendo, make it happen.

Dang it, give me my FemByleth amiibo!

Amazing job! Simply amazing! It's just mental to me that they managed to stay hard at developing this game for years until it was 100% done. Something that doesn't happen all to often these days.

Idk...still holding out hope that the hypothetical Smash Ultimate DX for Switch 2 turn out to be true. I still remember a time when certain Smash poll characters just couldn't added to Smash Wii U/3DS...because, as it it turns out, they were being held back for Smash Ultimate.

I'm disappointed Sora was the final character. What a letdown.

Until Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Deluxe on the Nintendo Switch 2!

Knowing Nintendo we most likely won't be getting any kind of "Plus Edition" or whatever we should call it version of Ultimate ever. A collection of Smash N64, Melee, Brawl, and Smash 4 seems much more hopeful in comparison to that possibility imo.

On-topic, cheers for the last significant update of the game! Well done Sakurai and the entire dev team!🍾🎉

I just love this. Make a game, pour all your heart, love and support into it, but know when to write the last chapter and close the book. Too many games hang around trying to chase a dollar, and turn into dreck. It without a doubt lived up to its name- Ultimate. I mean, they got friggin Banjo and Kazooie for crying out loud!!! I literally teared up watching that announcement 😭

A game where Mario, Sonic, Sora, Snake, Minecraft Steve, Kazuya, Ryu, and Joker can fight in Hyrule using poke balls and lightsabers. I mean come on . Take a bow Smash devs, you deserve it

We had an absolute blast in my household. Thank you, Sakurai for the great work.

I know you’re reading this Shinshi Sakurai

Please rerelease the spirits I missed from wave 2/4 this January.

Ty Shinshi Sakurai!

Thanks Sakurai and team. Is it too soon to put in requests for the next game? Ryza and Impa for Smash please. With an Alis Landale spirit, or whatever comes next.

@Ryu_Niiyama That was a real bummer. I’d have bought Byleth (and Robin, for that matter) if there were a female version.

@Coolmusic Mario Kart 8 Deluxe did very well for itself.
It makes less sense to release a collection when it's pretty well agreed upon that the newest is usually the greatest with the exception of Melee. Nobody wants to play Brawl or 4 anymore and Nintendo will never re-release Melee. 64 is fun for about an hour until the nostalgia wears off and you realize the mechanics are ass. A Smash Deluxe makes way too much sense.

@TheMegaMarshtomp They're also adding a special Amiibo Tag Tournament mode to the game on 1st March

@SpaceboyScreams: An updated edition makes sense but if Nintendo hasn’t bothered making them of previous titles since atleast Brawl they are not gonna do it now.

And if the rumor(s) of the ”Switch 2” being backwards compatible is true thats atleast one more reason why it likely won’t happen if we can already play Ultimate on the console.
Any more new content and fighters that Nintendo and Sakurai may have in mind they are highly likely already saving for the next Smash installment.

@Coolmusic A Mario Kart Deluxe had never been done before. Everything you're saying about Ultimate applies to MK8. The biggest reason is: sales. Ultimate sold like 35 million copies. A completely new game would take 5 years, a remix with 4K HDR RTX, better online, less input lag, more characters, etc. would do insanely well with minimal effort required.

what a game... like I said before, this is my very first smash and i have put more than 2K hours... to me they could continue releasing othrs dlcs (characters, I mean).
but it's ok, I'm waiting the next smash.
WHAT A GAME.. clap clap clap

"Please. For the love of God. Stop asking me about it. It's done. It's over. Please let it go."

@SpaceboyScreams : Sales is always a valid reason but that doesn’t mean its always the easiest choice.
In this case there are also licenses to think about (among other valid reasons).
Mario Kart is a Mario subseries featuring a Mario cast (plus Miis, and a few other Nintendo guests), Nintendo has a easier time, relativelty speaking, doing what they want to the IP.
Smash on the other hand is one of the biggest crossovers on earth that features a huge size of different Nintendo characters not limited to Mario and an almost as large size of third-party characters, and thats without thinking about the massive Nintendo and third-party content featured in the IP (music, assist trophies, spirits etc.).

If Nintendo ever were to make a re-release of Ultimate in the near future then great, I would buy it in a heartbeat, but at this point its just a pipe dream at best thats not worth holding my breath over, thats my take on this.

Guess that means Steve is never getting nerfed.

In all seriousness, sure, this game has flaws, but it's a monumental game. It's a blast whenever I boot it up, even now, so long as I am not playing online, mind. The amount of polish that is present in this title despite the scope is something else.

Meh I still enjoyed Brawl and Melee more got tired of looking at png images and doing event match constantly.

@ItsOKToBeOK Your statement about the characters place and weapons sounds ridiculous and hilarious at the same time to where it makes me realize just how fortunate we all are to have live to experience a game like Smash Bros Ultimate!

The hype character reveals.... the Steve announcement that literally broke Twitter for an hour, Banjo & Kazooie SUPER HYPE FAN LOVE reveal, and capping it all off with Sora's reveal...tying the 1st announcement of Inkings and Smash Ultimate coming to Switch so perfectly! Ahh, so good!! Truly an end of a era! Thanks for posting!

PS: Oh the MUSIC!!! How can I forget about the MUSIC??? I literary play the game just to listen to the many songs in the game. Smash Bros Ultimate really spoiled us!

End of Ultimate, but not Ultimate deluxe. If it truly is the end, they dropped the ball

@Coolmusic Yeah I'm certainly not going to try to predict what happens, it's just what makes the most sense to me personally but Nintendo likes to throw curve balls so I'm not holding my breath either. I think Ultimate is almost perfect and it made sooo much money that I doubt they're batting an eye at the idea of having to relicense 3rd party characters especially knowing how those other companies practically beg Nintendo to let their characters be in the games. I don't want a watered down roster, I LOVE this insane celebration of gaming crammed into one game. If they do a stripped back refresh I'm not sure I'll feel like leaving Ultimate behind, I'll end up like Melee fans clinging onto the past.

@Synecdoche yeah it was sorta cruel because why Fates/if and why not the rest of the FE My Unit Lords? I have NFC cards that have the artwork of the female Lords and use those instead of the amiibo.

I mean it make sense Ultimate is basically final title we won't get large roaster like that ever.i do like how challenging Classic mode. But I have criticism the adventure mode is lackluster boring repetitive battles major downgrade to subspace emissary in Brawl.

No break the targets, No event missions mode, all stars mode is underwhelming its reskin to multi man fights. In comparison Melee and Brawl.

Ultimate has amazing roaster but the single player mode is huge disappointing.

lol “major” my ass. Not even balance patch to fix Steve.

Lol, i know what you are doing Sakurai.. 😂
Last big update ahum. And then days later we get a surprise direct with new smash dlc with 5 new characters to fill up these empty rows.

They have no choice but to reboot smash at this point. How can they improve on this masterpiece.

@Martijn87

If by reboot you mean reinventing the series you are correct.

If they created a new game like this with a little more characters, it wouldn’t be particularly impressive, because it would be so similar to the older game. And it would be very costly and time-consuming to produce it. Another game like this with less characters would get criticized both for its lack of content and new gameplay.

Unless they wait many years to release another instance of this series, they will have to rethink it in a major way. But there is a lot of ways they could go with this. Just the fact that Outfoxies, this series and the few copycat games that they have inspired is the only non-Street Fighter inspired lineage of fighting games that is still alive, should give an idea of the possibilities that lies ahead.