{"id":46598,"date":"2025-04-02T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=46598"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:46:28","slug":"smash-bros-creator-masahiro-sakurai-is-tired-of-people-assuming-he-possesses-secret-nintendo-knowledge-no-matter-what-he-says-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/smash-bros-creator-masahiro-sakurai-is-tired-of-people-assuming-he-possesses-secret-nintendo-knowledge-no-matter-what-he-says-on-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai is tired of people assuming he possesses secret Nintendo knowledge\u00a0\u201cno matter what he says\u201d on X\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Super Smash Bros. and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai took to X today to share his excitement for the upcoming <strong>Nintendo Direct,<\/strong> where all the long-awaited details about the Nintendo Switch 2 will be unveiled. However, Sakurai has learned from his past mistakes (if they can be called so), and preemptively warned users that he does not, in fact possess any secret knowledge about what Nintendo plans to announce and is not offering any mysterious hints.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">1\u6642\u9593\u3082\u3042\u308b\u306e?! \u3073\u3063\u304f\u308a\uff61<br><br>\u2026\u306a\u306b\u3092\u8a00\u3063\u3066\u3082\u52d8\u3050\u3089\u308c\u308b\u304b\u3082\u3057\u308c\u306a\u3044\u3051\u308c\u3069\uff64\u79c1\u306f\u767a\u8868\u5185\u5bb9\u3092\u77e5\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\uff61 (\u4efb\u5929\u5802\u5916\u90e8\u306e\u4eba\u3067\u3059\u3057)<br>\u697d\u3057\u307f\u306b\u3057\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U6vnY4dcE4\">https:\/\/t.co\/U6vnY4dcE4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u685c\u4e95 \u653f\u535a \/ Masahiro Sakurai (@Sora_Sakurai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sora_Sakurai\/status\/1907209172552438078?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>It\u2019s one hour long?? That\u2019s a surprise.<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>&#8230;I know people are going to suspect no matter what I say, but I do not know the contents of the announcement (besides, I don\u2019t belong to Nintendo).<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>I\u2019m looking forward to it!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>If Sakurai sounds amusingly exasperated as he mentions that people are going to dissect his words no matter what he says, it\u2019s because he\u2019s been through it quite a few times. Just last week, his simple \u201cOh-ho!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sora_Sakurai\/status\/1905058317078233487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in response<\/a> to Nintendo announcing the March 27 Nintendo Direct earned a crowd of people mistranslating his words as \u201cmethod\u201d (thanks to AI and machine translation) and trying to figure out deeper meanings behind the post.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An even more ridiculous example was <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/masahiro-sakurai-tweets-a-single-syllable-unleashing-avalanche-of-super-smash-bros-6-requests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">when a literal single syllable from him<\/a> back in February caused fans to assume that he must be working on Super Smash Bros. 6 and making a cryptic allusion to it. It escalated so far that fans were already bombarding him with cameo requests.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30c4\u30a4\u30fc\u30c8\u304c\u6bce\u56de\u6df1\u8aad\u307f\u3055\u308c\u308b\u4ef2\u9593\ud83c\udf20\ud83d\ude07<\/p>&mdash; tobyfox (@tobyfox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tobyfox\/status\/1905242052771942449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When he lamented the fact that he \u201ccan\u2019t tweet anything carelessly\u201d anymore, Sakurai even earned the sympathy of Undertale creator Toby Fox, yet another developer whose fans\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/toby-fox-makes-fake-hidden-message-from-his-own-post-to-promote-undertales-90-sale-referencing-fan-conspiracy-theories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">favorite past time is thinking up conspiracy theories<\/a> based on crumbs (although it\u2019s grown into a self-aware meme by now).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai shared his excitement for the upcoming Nintendo Direct on X, but not without a warning to fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":46600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-46598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Smash Bros. 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