{"id":12239,"date":"2022-12-28T02:14:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T02:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/smash-bros-creator-masahiro-sakurai-supposedly-confirms-hes-semi-retired\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T02:14:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T02:14:19","slug":"smash-bros-creator-masahiro-sakurai-supposedly-confirms-hes-semi-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/smash-bros-creator-masahiro-sakurai-supposedly-confirms-hes-semi-retired\/","title":{"rendered":"Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Supposedly Confirms He&#8217;s &#8220;Semi-Retired&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;He is 52 after all&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Denfaminicogamer, the legendary video game developer Masahiro Sakurai apparently confirmed he is now semi-retired.<\/p>\n<p>He elaborated on this, mentioning how he worked on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/super_smash_bros\">Super Smash Bros.<\/a> series for around nine years between the 3DS\/Wii U and Switch release, along with the DLC updates. Sakurai feels he&#8217;s got to draw the line somewhere, or else he&#8217;ll simply run out of time to live his own life.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/smash-bros-creator-masahiro-sakurai-supposedly-confirms-hes-semi-retired\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Supposedly Confirms He&#8217;s &#8220;Semi-Retired&#8221;<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;He is 52 after all&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Denfaminicogamer, the legendary video game developer Masahiro Sakurai apparently confirmed he is now semi-retired.<\/p>\n<p>He elaborated on this, mentioning how he worked on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/super_smash_bros\">Super Smash Bros.<\/a> series for around nine years between the 3DS\/Wii U and Switch release, along with the DLC updates. Sakurai feels he&#8217;s got to draw the line somewhere, or else he&#8217;ll simply run out of time to live his own life.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/smash-bros-creator-masahiro-sakurai-supposedly-confirms-hes-semi-retired\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}