While we don’t have a release date for when the first new characters from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s second Fighter Pass will land, it seems we could be waiting even longer.<\/p>\n
In his latest Famitsu column which was partially leaked<\/a> a day early, game director Masahiro Sakurai reveals how a meeting to present a new fighters to a publisher was delayed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n Translated by Twitter user PushDustin<\/a>, it also details how development could be put on hold due to the virus – which would delay the release of any character DLC.<\/p>\n Sakurai had plans to present information about new fighter(s) to a publisher(s), but that’s been put on hold now.<\/p>\n If someone at the office is found to have COVID-19, then the whole building would be shut down and development would be put on hold.<\/p>\n (cont)<\/p>\n — PushDustIn (@PushDustIn) March 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n