User blog comment:Dan12322/No more Smash Games?/@comment-26031292-20141207143158

This is the most money-making franchise Nintendo has ever conceived. If they end it, one, the fans will kill them, and two, money will be harder to come by because they won't be releasing a guranteed multi-million dollar game. I personally believe that the franchise will continue, and that Skurai will step down for another director. I also believe he won't permanently leave the series though, as he will probably give some input, just so the new director has a direction to follow. Maybe if we are lucky, the sales of the game and Sakurai's stepping down will encourage a new director to come up and make the next game faster, perhaps before the new Nintendo Console comes out. I heard in an interview that they have an idea for a new console, one that you can take on the go and play like a handheld, but plug it into a TV and play like a console, but the technology hasn't caught up to that yet, so it may be a while until then. Hopefully we will actually get another Smash before then. Sorry for the long response.