{"id":54941,"date":"2025-12-12T18:14:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=54941"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:14:31","slug":"kirby-air-riders-development-team-will-disband-soon-says-masahiro-sakurai-aiming-for-definitive-balance-after-one-more-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/kirby-air-riders-development-team-will-disband-soon-says-masahiro-sakurai-aiming-for-definitive-balance-after-one-more-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby Air Riders development team will disband soon, says Masahiro Sakurai. Aiming for \u201cdefinitive balance\u201d after one more update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Masahiro Sakurai, game designer and president of Sora, confirmed on December 12 that his latest game <strong>Kirby Air Riders<\/strong> will not be getting DLC or any similar content, as disclosed in the previously held Air Riders Direct 2. The Kirby creator also revealed that the development team behind Kirby Air Riders will be disbanding in the near future.<\/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\">\u30a8\u30a2\u30e9\u30a4\u30c0\u30fc\u30c0\u30a4\u30ec\u30af\u30c82\u3067\u304a\u8a71\u3057\u305f\u901a\u308a\u3001\u300e\u30ab\u30fc\u30d3\u30a3\u306e\u30a8\u30a2\u30e9\u30a4\u30c0\u30fc\u300f\u306fDLC\u306a\u3069\u306e\u5236\u4f5c\u4f53\u5236\u3092\u6301\u3061\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3002<br>\u8fd1\u3044\u3046\u3061\u3001\u30c1\u30fc\u30e0\u3082\u89e3\u6563\u306b\u306a\u308a\u307e\u3059\u3002<br><br>\u3088\u3063\u3066\u3001\u77ed\u3044\u671f\u9593\u3067\u624b\u3092\u6253\u3066\u308b\u3046\u3061\u306b\uff64\u4f55\u5e74\u5f8c\u3067\u3082\u554f\u984c\u306a\u304f\u904a\u3079\u308b\u30d0\u30e9\u30f3\u30b9\u3092\u76ee\u6307\u3057\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L2JzJHzFb2\">https:\/\/t.co\/L2JzJHzFb2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u685c\u4e95 \u653f\u535a \/ Masahiro Sakurai (@Sora_Sakurai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sora_Sakurai\/status\/1999297129186230755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As Sakurai explained in his recent X post, since there\u2019s not much time left until the disbandment, the team is currently aiming to make balancing adjustments so that the game can be enjoyed without any issues for years to come. Kirby Air Riders\u2019 Ver1.2.0 update just went live today, adding a bunch of bug fixes, QOL revisions and balance adjustments to the game. However, according to Sakurai, there probably won\u2019t be that many patch updates after this one \u2013 in fact, there may only be just one more before the developers part ways. \u201cI think we might be able to tweak it one more time, but after that, please enjoy the balance of the game as a definitive version,\u201d Sakurai commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many full-priced titles in recent years see numerous patches, updates and balance tweaks, the decision to put out a game as-is and leave it be comes as quite a surprise. Hopefully, this will give the developers some time to rest and fully focus on their next projects, whatever they may be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/chef-kawasakis-cursed-micro-bikini-look-from-banned-kirby-fangame-gets-revival-in-air-riders-custom-machine-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chef Kawasaki\u2019s cursed \u201cmicro\u00a0bikini\u201d look from banned Kirby fangame sees resurgence in Air Rider\u2019s\u00a0custom\u00a0Machine Market\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masahiro Sakurai revealed that the development team behind Kirby Air Riders will be disbanding in the near future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":54942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-54941","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>Kirby Air Riders development team will disband soon, says Masahiro Sakurai. 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