Nintendo recently releasedKirby Air Riders. When Masahiro Sakurai talked about player feedback and feature trade-offs in the latest episode, his attitude was very pragmatic. He made it clear that he was receiving so much demand that it was virtually impossible to meet it all.
The reason why this sentence is particularly heavy is because he is alsoSuper Smash Bros.The soul of the series, the fans who know bestHow ambitious you can be when you ask for it, and what team burdens you will end up with。
It’s actually a typical paradox of a large work.
The content of this episode tends to complement the previously unfinished mechanism, such as the appearance customization of character headwear. Masahiro Sakurai explained that the team had initially considered only wearing headdresses for Kirby or the round-robin characters, because that was almost the limit at the traditional scale of development; but in the end, they chose to make all the characters available. This kind of decision may seem like a cosmetic option, but it’s actually a typical development tradeoff: you know someone must think it’s useless, but you also know that doing it will make another group of players more engaged.
Even if someone finds customization pointless, they don’t find the effort futile.
Masahiro Sakurai also mentioned that he knows that some people will find customization optional, but he does not think that these inputs are wasteful. This kind of content is often not for everyone, but to make the game world more complete and give people who like to dress up, collect, and tweak, a reason to continue to stick to the game. From this perspective, he said that the impossibility of satisfying every request is not a rejection of the player, but a reminder not to take every update as an opportunity to make a wish come true.
Jokes are jokes, people are actually waiting for his next move.
More interestingly, after the launch of Kirby Air Riders, the player community started playing the same pedestal almost immediately:Is Nintendo getting Masahiro Sakurai back for Super Smash Bros. 6?This kind of joke can be told all the time, which means that the fans know that the producer is best at balancing “fans want it all” and “reality can only do part of it”, pulling the work back to a balance that can be completed and paid for.