Kirby Air Riders is being developed by Super Smash Bros. Ultimate studio Bandai Namco Studios, but Masahiro Sakurai hints it’ll be a while before we hear more about it

Kirby Air Riders was one of the most surprising upcoming Switch 2 games shown amongst yesterday’s bombardment of Nintendo Switch 2 Direct news – a sequel to the adorable Kirby racing game which first arrived almost 22 years ago. During the Direct, it was confirmed that director Masahiro Sakurai will be leading development, and he’s now revealed what studio is making the game.

On Twitter, Super Smash Bros. and Kirby creator Sakurai has confirmed that the Switch 2-exclusive Air Riders is indeed the mystery game he teased last year (despite the fact that before the Direct, he insisted he knew nothing about what would be shown), and it’s being developed at Bandai Namco Studios. For reference, that’s the same studio behind both Super Smash Bros. 4 and Ultimate – pretty much without debate the best fighting games on their respective consoles.