Masahiro Sakurai

Quick Facts

Full Name	Masahiro Sakurai
Occupation	Game Designer
Date Of Birth	Aug 3, 1970(1970-08-03)
Age	54
Birthplace	Musashimurayama
Country	Japan
Birth City	Tokyo
Horoscope	Leo

Masahiro Sakurai Biography

Masahiro Sakurai is one of the most popular and richest Game Designer who was born on August 3, 1970 in Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan. Famous for his work on his own Super Smash Bros. and Kirby video games and voiced characters in a number of the games from the well-known series.

He as well as Final Fantasy developer He and Final Fantasy developer Hironobu Sakaguchi both had successful careers in the Japanese and international video game industries. both enjoyed successful careers within the Japanese in the video games industry.

Masahiro Sakurai (桜井 政博 , Sakurai Masahiro, born August 3, 1970) is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series. Apart from his work on those series, he also led the design of Meteos in 2005 and directed Kid Icarus: Uprising in 2012. Formerly an employee of HAL Laboratory, he founded Sora Ltd. in 2005, a company he still leads. He is also an author of a weekly column for Famitsu magazine, and has done voice acting work in some of his games.

Soon after, Sakurai began working on a project with Q Entertainment, along with Tetsuya Mizuguchi. This collaboration resulted in Meteos in 2005, a puzzle game for the Nintendo DS. On September 30, 2005, Sakurai announced that he had formed his own company, Sora. Two titles were announced to be in development but no information on the titles had been divulged. As for the future of the Super Smash Bros. series, Nintendo and HAL Laboratory’s President Satoru Iwata, during Nintendo’s E3 2005 press conference, promised an online iteration of the game would come to Nintendo’s video game console Wii.

He was raised and born to Tokyo, Japan. He married Michiko Sakurai.

Masahiro Sakurai Net Worth

Masahiro Sakurai is one of the richest Game Designer from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Masahiro Sakurai 's net worth $10 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As a teenager when he was in his late teens, he started being employed by the Japanese HAL Laboratory, Inc. video game company. Later, he joined Q Entertainment and created his own company, Project Sora and Sora Ltd.

He was the director of the production of such Nintendo DS games as Kid Icarus: Uprising and Meteos.

Masahiro Sakurai was born on August 3, 1970, in Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan. One of Sakurai’s earliest experiences in the video game industry began when he worked for HAL Laboratory, where he created the character Kirby at age 19 and directed his first title, Kirby’s Dream Land. Sakurai left HAL on August 5, 2003, after growing tired of the sequelization passively forced by HAL, ending his work on the Kirby series. “It was tough for me to see that every time I made a new game, people automatically assumed that a sequel was coming,” Sakurai commented, in an interview with Nintendo Dream, two weeks after he resigned from HAL. He explained that, “even if it’s a sequel, lots of people have to give their all to make a game, but some people think the sequel process happens naturally”.

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Who is Masahiro Sakurai Dating?

According to our records, Masahiro Sakurai married to Michiko Sakurai. As of December 1, 2023, Masahiro Sakurai’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Masahiro Ranked on the list of most popular Game Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Masahiro Sakurai celebrates birthday on August 3 of every year.

Who is the black guy who created Kirby?

Masahiro Sakurai
Occupation| Game director game designer scenario writer
Employer| HAL Laboratory (1990–2003) Sora Ltd. (2005–present)
Works| Kirby series Super Smash Bros. series
Spouse(s)| Michiko Sakurai

Why did Sakurai leave Kirby?

Later, on August 5, 2003, Sakurai resigned from his position at HAL Laboratory. His resignation came just days after an interview where he openly criticized Nintendo for circumstances surrounding the development of the GameCube racing game, Kirby Air Ride , the last Kirby title he would develop.

Did Sakurai leave Nintendo?

Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the Super Smash Bros. series, is not retiring from game development – but he will be quitting his weekly Famitsu column after 18 years.

Did Sakurai get death threats?

Masahiro Sakurai receives death threats.

Is Kirby a boy or a girl?

Kirby
Species| Kirbys
Gender| Male (in localizations) Gender-unknown (in Japanese)
Origin| Dream Land, Planet Popstar
Height| 8 inches