Kirby Air Riders Has Been Rated For Switch 2

I wonder if Sakurai was working on Smash & Kirby (which finished by now) at the same time. There’s no way Nintendo would let a few years go by without a new Smash. It’s a certified system seller.
And no, a deluxe version of Ultimate would not count, nor would the competitive community want it. No one wants the same artstyle, meta, movesets, etc. for another 8 years.

I really hope we get some gameplay footage soon, this will probably be my GOTY!

I hope this game lives up to the original, it was great for the time,

Wait, is Kirby gonna face a final boss that bleeds? That's been mostly the reason recent Kirbys have been rated E10+.

It does feel like Nintendo's going to use Nintendo Today to fill in the blanks in August.

• Week 1 - Prime 4, maybe gets its own Direct (Metroid's 39th anniversary is on August 6th)
• Week 2 - Kirby Air Riders
• Week 3 - Age of Imprisonment (FE Warriors was given a release date at Gamescom)
• Week 4 - Another Partner Showcase?

this is the best news of the day, i hope we get more news about this soon 😝 i cant wait to see what secrets sakurai will unveil.
@Grumblevolcano i hope not that would be exasperating i like getting my news all at once in an exciting event 💔💔💔

@LazyDaisy That's pretty wrong actually, public sentiment in the community is that a Deluxe version with a few more DLC characters, less input lag and buffering, 4K 120hz HDR and better online would be just about the perfect Smash experience. Ultimate is, well, ultimate - it just needs a little refresh. A mixup risks being a step down in multiple ways, from roster size to needing a gimmic due to not being able to be much more perfect than what's already basically perfect.

The first non-smash bros game Sakurai is making in almost 15 years, a new Kirby game he's making in more than 20 years and it happens to be a sequel of one of it's best works. People don't know the significance of this game, it's Sakurai's dream game and I'm happy I'm alive to withness this miracle.

@SpaceboyScreams Agreed. Some dlc and maybe some additional single player content (bring back Adventure from Melee and maybe subspace emissary as well)

@LazyDaisy
Very doubtful that Sakurai is working on Kirby Air Riders and the next Smash Bros simultaneously unless Air Riders is a small-scale budget title (unlikely).

Occams razor tells me that the next Smash Bros title hasn't started development yet, won't enter full production until after Kirby Air Riders is released, and will launch in 2029/30.

RELEASE IT NOW DAMMIT!!!
...No wait, we're getting the Forgotten Land upgrade/DLC next month...
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RELEASE IT IN SEPTEMBER DAMMIT!!!

@LazyDaisy Yeah tell that to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Tell that to every single weekly sales chart since 2017. Tell that to every clueless family who doesn't know how many times a game has been rereleased.

@HugoGED I am so angry at you for making me realize KI Uprising is thirteen years old.

Rated SEVEN!? Oh no…

@NotoriousWhiz I hope they bring back trophies. Trophies are a neat way to learn more about less well known nintendo characters.

Nice, this game actually looks really good! Potentially one of the first games I get if I get a Switch 2!

@LazyDaisy Listen I know you just want to imagine your favorite games getting new entries and stuff.

But realistically it's going to be hard to to make a new smash bros.

They can't really outdo ultimate in terms of scale.

So while. You may reject a deluxe version, that's the more realistic option. Maybe with a couple new fighters squeezed in. It's the only real way to go further in terms of scale.

Of course the other option is to go in reverse and return to the scale of the first smash bros and go for a reinvention of the base gameplay instead.

This way they could reduce scale without looking inferior to Ultimate. This will be riskier but would allow actual room for growth.

Which of these two options Nintendo takes is unknown and the fact this is a complicated decision means we might be waiting longer than you think for a new smash bros. Yes ultimate was a system seller, but that doesn't mean just making a new entry is that easy.

Indo hope to see something eventually. But do be ready to wait a while. Forcing a new game too early will just blow up in their faces.

@Tayrailbridge We know now that the Switch 1 was going to have Mario Kart World, but they shelved it instead for Switch 2.

@SpaceboyScreams Every Smash title has taken a risk, and each of them have been unique so far. I enjoyed putting 1500 hrs into Ultimate, but it’s time for the next entry. Claiming that Ultimate is near perfect or that cutting down the roster for the next game somehow makes Ultimate inherently better is just not true. Do you really think we’re just going to receive an updated version of Ultimate each generation? It can’t go on forever.

I'm guessing we're getting a proper Nintendo Direct in September, and that's where we're going to get our first proper look at this game.

@LazyDaisy Why? Mainly because MK8 was selling so well.

the OG game has aged like warm milk. Can't say I'm very excited for this one.

@SpaceboyScreams I'd rather get a new Smash with smaller roster than a new version of Ultimate. If I want to play Ultimate, I'll just play Ultimate.

YES

The universe is healing

For those talking about smash didn’t sakurai himself say he wouldn’t make another smash once ultimate was finished? Or did I imagine that?

I wish they would just give us the release dates for this and Metroid already.

I would normally be interested. But when there’s only 3 first party must have games, do two of them need to be racers?