Masahiro Sakurai's YouTube channel will "wrap up" this year, and I want it to continue more than I want a new Smash Bros

gamesradar.com:

Masahiro Sakurai, best known as the director of the Super Smash Bros. series, has announced that his incredible gaming YouTube channel is set to "wrap up" in 2024.

In a YouTube community post published earlier today, Sakurai writes, "It's a bit late to be saying this, but… Happy New Year! I'm planning to wrap up Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games sometime this year. Until then, I hope you'll stay tuned!"

Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games launched on August 23, 2022, and since then has posted multiple videos every week on topics like game design, project management, and historical insights on projects Sakurai previously directed. Each episode is short but lavishly produced, with custom art and graphics and an almost absurd variety of relevant gameplay footage from various titles.

I've watched pretty much every single one of these videos since Sakurai launched the channel, and they're pretty much universally fascinating - just quick, digestible bites of insight from somebody who has been making games for a long, long time. While Sakurai's announcement that the channel is wrapping up has some Smash Bros. fans hopeful that he'll soon return to the series, it remains to be seen what his next project will be.

I have no idea the full extent of what it takes to make these videos, but given their production value, it sure seems like they're a time-consuming and expensive endeavor. Sakurai works with an external production company called QBIST to edit the videos and the localization house 8-4 to present them into English. 8-4 is primarily known for gaming localizations, including translating Street Fighter 6 to English and bringing Undertale into Japanese. (In another community note, Sakurai says he actually "got 8-4's contact