Super Smash Bros. Ultimate had a small amount of new ghosts earlier this year, but other than that, the game hasn’t had any new content for a long time. Despite this, with the game in the rearview mirror, director Masahiro Sakurai has since spent a lot of time making video content and discussing his perspective on video game development.
For example, in a new Creating Games video he released, he apologized to players who have spent many hours playing Super Smash Bros. games. As for his reasons for apologizing, he previously explained that “game time – especially as it is conceived before the game starts – is better thought of as a kind of expense. In the modern world, you are constantly competing with everything else. It’s a battle for people’s time. Even if one has a lot of free time, it means something different now than it did in the past. There are always things to do. The question is: how do people choose to spend their time?
