{"id":665577,"date":"2026-04-02T23:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/masahiro-sakurais-smash-ultimate-screenshots-to-run-out-sometime-in-august"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:14:15","slug":"masahiro-sakurais-smash-ultimate-screenshots-to-run-out-sometime-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/masahiro-sakurais-smash-ultimate-screenshots-to-run-out-sometime-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Masahiro Sakurai&#8217;s Smash Ultimate screenshots to run out sometime in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/masahiro-sakurais-smash-ultimate-screenshots-to-run-out-sometime-in-august.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Technically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/super-smash-bros-ultimate\">Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a> and new content for it all came to an end back in October 2021, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-sora-impressions-how-good-is-the-games-final-fighter\">Kingdom Hearts&#8217; Sora was introduced<\/a> to the fighting game. However, Smash has continued to live on not just through its loyal community, but through the creative screenshots of its director, Masahiro Sakurai.<\/p>\n<p>Sakurai started, and committed to, a long-standing tradition of posting screenshots from the game to Twitter every day. These screenshots in particular have been of great joy and amusement to many Smash fans, simply due to the fact that Sakurai manages to capture characters and environments so perfectly in each of them. The below shot is definitely a perfect example of how passionate the Wii Fit trainers can get about a fight.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the playful tradition is set to come to an end. In a recent tweet, Masahiro Sakurai shared that it looks as though he&#8217;ll run out of screenshots this August. He claims that he&#8217;d even taken an additional 200 screenshots towards the end of development, making it hard to believe they&#8217;re gone so quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/masahiro-sakurais-smash-ultimate-screenshots-to-run-out-sometime-in-august\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/masahiro-sakurais-smash-ultimate-screenshots-to-run-out-sometime-in-august\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically, Smash Bros. Ultimate and new content for it all came to an end back in October 2021, when Kingdom Hearts&#8217; Sora was introduced to the fighting game. However, Smash has continued to live on not just through its loyal community, but through the creative screenshots of its director, Masahiro Sakurai. Sakurai started, and committed to, a long-standing tradition of posting screenshots from the game to Twitter every day. These screenshots in particular have been of great joy and amusement to many Smash fans, simply due to the fact that Sakurai manages to capture characters and environments so perfectly in each of them. The below shot is definitely a perfect example of how passionate the Wii Fit trainers can get about a fight. 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