Mnementh on 12 March 2014
| justiceiro said: Now we are discussing this: what is the true relation with sakurai and nintendo? I know he created kirby and kid ikarus, but i'm not sure if he still work on a nintendo owned studio, like hal laboratory. |
He left HAL and founded his own company Sora. That is nothing big - it's basically himself as freelancer to support every team he want:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sora_Ltd.
Don't mix it up with Project Sora, that was temporarily founded as developing studio for Kid Icarus: Uprising.
So theoretically he could work for non-Nintendo-platforms. But he still has good contacts with Iwata (from their time at HAL) and Iwata is clever enough to keep Sakurai busy with Nintendo-games and so far it works.
Let's see what he does after Smash Bros. Maybe he wants to make a PS4-game then.
