Kirby Air Riders Team to Disband After One More Update

Early on, it was confirmed by Masahiro Sakurai that Kirby Air Riders would not receive any DLC, but it seems that this philosophy of minimal content updates has been taken one step further because Sakurai has now confirmed on Twitter that the team behind the game will be disbanding entirely after one final update, leaving players to enjoy the next update as the final release of the game.

Note: The actual tweet is written in Japanese. Displayed here is that tweet translated into English with Google Translate.

Quote From Masuhiro Sakurai

As mentioned in Air Rider Direct 2, Kirby Air Rider does not have a production system for DLC or the like. The team will soon be disbanded. Therefore, while we can take action in the short term, we are aiming for a balance that will allow the game to be played without any problems even years from now. Maybe I can make one more adjustment, but after that, enjoy the finished balance!

This means that even though the game released less than a month ago, we're already just at the road's end of content updates for the game. Before the seventh console generation, this was pretty much the norm for almost every game released, but in the present day, it feels almost surreal to see a developer adopt the mindset of releasing a game as a complete package and then moving on to a new project.

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