It seems that the rigors of working on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are such that Masahiro Sakurai couldn't even tak♔e the time out to see if it had won any awards during The Game Awar🍎ds.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was released in December 2018, but it was still nominated in four different categories in the 2019 Game Awards, including Best Family Game, Best Fighting Game, Player's Voice, and Game of the Year. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate only won the Best Fighting Game award, as it lost out to Luigi's Mansion 3 for Best Family Game, Fire Emblem: Three Houses in Player's Voice, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice for Game of the Year.
It seems that Sakurai wasn't aware that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate won the Best Fighting Game award until after it happened, a🉐s he said on Twitter that he was too busy working hard at that moment.
The question that fans are asking themselves is: what was Sakurai working so hard on? Or rather, who was he working so hard on? There is still one last character to be revealed as part of the Fighters Pass for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, due for release by February 2020.
It was speculated that the last Fighters Pass character would be as Joker from Persona 5 was revealed as the first character during last year's show. The fact that the last Fighters Pass character is meant to be released soon, along with the fact that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was nomin♔ated in four categories at The 🔥Game Awards also had fans anticipating an announcement during the event.
However, it seems that the decision was made to save the final Fighters Pass announcement for a later date for whatever reason. It's possible that the character simply isn't ready to be revealed yet, or that Nintendo wants the announcement saved for an upcoming Direct in order to hype up the 2020 Nintendo Switch schedule. Rega💯rdless of the reason, the lack of announcement and Sakurai's tweet has fans abuzz in aꦜnticipation for the latest addition to the award-winning fighting game.
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