Update [Wed 31st Aug, 2022 05:45 BST]: Following the launch of Sakurai’s YouTube channels last week, which gained 200,000 subscribers in less than 24 hours (see original story below), exactly a week later, he announced that the channels has now exceeded a total of 700,000 subscribers.
It’s his English YouTube page and also his Japanese page. His English channel currently has 379k subscribers and his Japanese channel has 326k subscribers. Not to detract from this important milestone, but as some have pointed out, his fans may be watching. both channels, will certainly reinforce the numbers. However, the reality is a total of 700K in a week!
This is his latest message thanking everyone and mentioning how in time he was able to surpass his Twitter subscriber count (currently just under a million followers).
“In the week since I started my channel, I’ve uploaded five videos and somehow gained more than 700,000 subscribers between EN and JP! I hope that as more and more people watch these videos, the game in general will be more and more interesting. Thank you very much for watching!”
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Original article [Thu 25th Aug, 2022 02:05 BST]: We’ve always known Masahiro Sakurai has a loyal fan base and it’s proven once again with Super Smash Bros. director achieves over 200,000 YouTube subscribers (on English channel) in less than 24 hours since his account launched.
Yes, according to the official announcement yesterday – Sakurai has surpassed 200k subscribers! Looks like it even surprised him so far. Here’s what he had to say in a rough translation, courtesy of Google:
“Thank you for the great feedback! The number of subscribers is double digits higher than expected…”
He also seems to want to “remove” any ads because he doesn’t want to monetize the channel:
“To remove ads, it’s not enough just to turn off the monetization setting, maybe go into the Youtube partner program and turn off the ads…? Looks like I haven’t set it up yet, so I’ll try it later .”
Sakurai’s Japanese YouTube Channel has also obtained more than 185,000 subscribers.
So far, Sakurai has uploaded a total of three videos. His first video is the video “https://www.nintendolife.com/about” – explaining his goal is to try and make games around the world more fun by sharing knowledge that he acquired from the video game industry. At the time of writing, it has over 200,000 views and 40k likes.
He’ll also provide some “behind the scenes” look at various aspects of the development process, including footage of Smash-related design documents and developer builds ( and don’t worry, he’s clearly been approved by Nintendo for this).
While Sakurai’s YouTube subscriber count is impressive, it’s not surprising considering how popular he is in the video game community and that includes the fact that he already has more 980,000 followers on social networking platform Twitter.
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