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Kirby Air Riders team will disband after one final patch, says director Masahiro Sakurai, and you're on your own after that: "Please enjoy the balance of the game as a definitive version"
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The great Masahiro Sakurai has foretold it, and so it shall be: the Kirby Air Riders development team is disbanding after, maybe, one final patch.
Sakurai, the Nintendo legend who created Kirby and Super Smash Bros., explains his plan for Kirby Air Riders on Twitter, in a post translated by Automaton. He makes it clear that Kirby Air Riders' newly released Ver. 1.2.0 update will be one of its last before the dreamy racing game's developers move on.
"I think we might be able to tweak it one more time," says Sakurai, "but after that, please enjoy the balance of the game as a definitive version." He explains that Kirby Air Riders' dev team will be dissolving soon, and its current goal is to make the racer airtight with balance changes and bug fixes, so that the game can withstand the next few years.
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Ver. 1.2.0, for example, introduces several changes to Kirby Air Riders, including the ability to "try out courses solo in Online Matches during matchmaking," "improved communication stability during online play," and a number of other improvements, per the Nintendo website.
Sakurai has always been transparent about the fact that Kirby Air Riders is a one-and-done experience; in October, he said truthfully, "I'm not planning on making this an ongoing series. I've thrown everything I have into this game from the start." That's fine. abandoning Kirby Air Riders just gives Sakurai more time for Smash, right?
Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.
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