{"id":1036899,"date":"2024-06-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/?p=1036899"},"modified":"2024-06-17T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:00:45","slug":"masahiro-sakurai-recorded-his-final-youtube-channel-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/masahiro-sakurai-recorded-his-final-youtube-channel-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Masahiro Sakurai Recorded His Final YouTube Channel Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masahiro Sakurai has revealed on his X account that he has finished recording the final episode for his YouTube channel &#8220;Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games.&#8221; However, it will still take quite some time until this episode comes out, as Sakurai still has other regular episodes coming beforehand.<\/p>    <p>Sakurai&#8217;s plan to end the video series has been known for quite a while. He first announced it in early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/masahiro-sakurai-on-creating-games-youtube-show-to-end\/\">January 2024<\/a>. 2024 will thus be the final year for him to publish new episodes on the channel.<\/p>    <p>The original Japanese tweet is available to view right below:<\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30c1\u30e3\u30f3\u30cd\u30eb\u6700\u7d42\u8a71\u306e\u53ce\u9332\u3092\u7d42\u3048\u307e\u3057\u305f\uff61<br>\u307e\u3060\u516c\u958b\u306f\u5148\u306b\u306a\u308b\u3068\u601d\u3044\u307e\u3059\u304c\uff64\u305d\u308c\u307e\u3067\u306f\u901a\u5e38\u56de\u3067\u304a\u697d\u3057\u307f\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u2026<\/p>&mdash; \u685c\u4e95 \u653f\u535a \/ Masahiro Sakurai (@Sora_Sakurai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sora_Sakurai\/status\/1801981078774960416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div><\/figure>    <p>And our translation of this tweet is as follows:<\/p>    <blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-quote-icon\"> <p>I have finished recording the final episode for the channel.<br \/>I think it will still take a while until it&#8217;s published, so until then, please enjoy the regular episodes&#8230;<\/p> <cite>Masahiro Sakurai<\/cite><\/blockquote>    <p>Masahiro Sakurai established the YouTube channel in late August 2022. He has since published new episodes simultaneously in Japanese and English. As of June 2024, the channel has a combined total of almost 1.18 million subscribers, with around 580,000 from the English channel and almost 600,000 from the Japanese channel.<\/p>    <p>The channel has also received acclaim from the gaming industry. In August 2023, Sakurai received two awards at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/nintendo-affiliated-entities-dominated-cedec-awards-2023\/\">CEDEC Awards 2023<\/a> for running the YouTube channel. The awards in question were the Game Design award and the Visual Arts award.<\/p>    <p>The &#8220;Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games&#8221; YouTube channel is available in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@sora_sakurai_jp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Japanese<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@sora_sakurai_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">English<\/a> languages, and its final episode will appear sometime in 2024.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakurai still has more episodes in the queue before this one comes 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