In issue #885 of Famitsu magazine, Sakurai revealed that he would be serving as a director and game designer on 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. As for the future of the Super Smash Bros. Two titles were announced to be in development but no information on the titles had been divulged. On September 30, 2005, Sakurai announced that he had formed his own company, Sora Ltd. This collaboration resulted in Meteos in 2005, a puzzle game for the Nintendo DS. Soon after, Sakurai began working on a project with Q Entertainment, along with Tetsuya Mizuguchi. 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'. '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. Sakurai left HAL on August 5, 2003, after growing tired of the sequelization passively forced by HAL, ending his work on the Kirby series. 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.

Masahiro Sakurai was born on August 3, 1970, in Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan.

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