There’s been plenty of dialog about the way forward for the Super Smash Bros. sequence because the growth of Ultimate wrapped up, however for those who ask Katsuhiro Harada about it, there’s just one man who can deal with it.

Speaking to IGN to advertise Bandai Namco’s next-gen fighter Tekken 8, director Katsuhiro Harada was requested about what it was wish to work with Sakurai on Kazuya, and summed up by saying he is “in all probability” the one one who could make the sequence, as a result of his deep understanding of various IPs.

Here’s precisely what he needed to say:

Katsuhiro Harada: So working with Sakurai-san, you talked about collaboration on the character Kazuya, however really, Bandai Namco Studios, after they had been growing Smash Brothers… Sakurai-san was there on a regular basis, simply usually coming to work, I suppose you would say. So we knew fairly properly what to anticipate and his character. And even that stated, we had been additionally shocked when it got here time to make Kazuya for Smash Brothers, as a result of we thought since we are the consultants at Tekken, possibly he’ll ask what is the factors that I have to positively get proper to make this really feel like Tekken, however really that wasn’t the case. He had already had his personal ideas about what makes Tekken “Tekken.” So it was shocking but in addition refreshing to see that he got here in and did not ask questions, however stated, “I’ve performed plenty of Tekken and studied it, and that is what I really feel is essential for the sport,” proper off the bat.

So that was fairly a shock, I imply in a constructive manner. But then additionally it made us suppose that he has all these characters from different totally different franchises and video games in Smash Brothers, so to know a lot to a deep extent about all of those totally different IPs to have the ability to do this… he is in all probability the one one that would correctly make that recreation. In creating Tekken sequence we at all times take a look at numerous totally different preventing video games or different video games exterior the style and take into consideration what to possibly draw from that have. But he simply went a lot deeper on all of them, we thought there’s nonetheless loads we are able to study ourselves from totally different merchandise exterior of Tekken by taking a look at his instance.

How do you suppose the Smash Bros. sequence would go with out Sakurai’s involvement? Any strategies on who might step up for the event of future titles? Leave a remark down under.