Random: Super Smash Bros. Creator Played 242 PlayStation Games in 2019

How the hell does he find the time to do that?

Then again, Sakurai has always between heavily platform agnostic, and his company will work with anyone who pays the bills.

Please, let there be a playstation representative in the second fighter pass. Like sakurai said, the game isn’t just a fighting game or a party game anymore, and it isn’t just a celebration of nintendo history anymore. It has become a celebration of gaming in general, and, to me, sony is part of that (and maybe valve too, dunno.)

If anything, he's efficient.

Maybe he should have played more Nintendo games so he doesn't always have to resort to adding Fire Emblem characters 😂

playing a game is not the same as completing a game or seeing end credits. i doubt he put more than 30minutes into any of them.

@3MonthBeef yes, i saw your message right after i posted mine. we said pretty much the exact same thing

I love how enthusiastic Sakurai is during the Smash Bros presentations. The clear admiration he showed for King of Fighters when Terry was revealed, for example, was infectious. Legendary developer.

Wow, that's a super impressive number.

I played 243.........is there a prize/trophy.

Sakurai seems like a cool dude. Glad he does the presentations for the DLC cause he always makes me chuckle with his sense of humor.

If I'm not mistaken the Sora Team is not owned by Nintendo, so technically they can work for any mayor console manufacturer (I think). Sony should hire Sakurai for the PS Allstars Sequel (one can dream).

@darkswabber Wouldn't you call Joker and Cloud Playstation representatives? I know they're not first party characters, but their games were/are only available on Playstation platforms

Huh, maybe he’s seeing who he’d add for the second fighter pass.

@darkswabber Solid Snake & Cloud Strife aren’t PlayStation representatives?

@Akurusu @BranJ0 a friend of mine made that argument too yesterday and I see them more as atlus/sega, konami and squanix reps. I mean someone like ratchet or sly or kratos.
But if you purely look at where games started, than yes, solid snake, cloud and joker are playstation reps. In thar case microsoft is in dire need of an rep as banjo kazooie is more of a n64 rep.

@darkswabber Cuphead?

@Akurusu he'd fit but unfortunately he's just a Mii costume; one of the better ones, as it completely conceals the Mii, but still only a Mii Fighter 🙁

@Akurusu that’s a mii gunner costume, not a fighter. The same reason I don’t see ezio or rabbid as a ubisoft rep.

@Arugula

You a Bengals fan bro?? That team sucks!
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That's impressive. I wonder how many hours he has on Persona 5...

@Number09 Yes but it's already been awarded to Sakurai. You'll have to go get it from him, but he won't go down without a fight.

Drake from Uncharted confirmed for Smash.

@darkswabber Solid Snake didn't start on the PlayStation he started on the MSX

That is impressive, I'm not sure I played that many across the multiple platforms I game on last year, including mobile and tablets. Now he probably didn't finish half of those, but still impressive for a guy that made one of the most popular game franchises of the past 2 decades.

@Arugula
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I gotta hand it to you, your a good sport about this! 👏👏👏

Sony should be hiring him for ps allstar 2

Sakurai does not actually work for Nintendo. He works on contract. BTW if anybody thinks he would work on PSAS he would probably be against it as it is straight up plagiarism.

How do any developer find the time to play games when creating them is so demanding? Reminds me of when I hear about animated movie directors having lives outside of their work. How do they find the time?!

I think its great he took interest in PlayStation Games. But saying you played x number of games with no context is nothing to boast about. I could fire up PS now and top that in a day of streaming.

@Areus stupid of me that I forgot that since I just bought the original metal gear last weekend.

@darkswabber

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/01/rumour_crash_bandicoot_is_smash_ultimate_dlc_fighter_6_according_to_byleth_leaker

Not confirmed, but would you consider Crash Bandicoot to be a "Playstation representative?"

@Ralizah more so than all the others that where suggested, yes. Since crash (and spyro) started out as playstation IP’s but where sold by universal who co owned both which was out of sony’s control.

But I’d still love to see someone like kratos or ratchet in smash.