Why These Ex-Nintendo Employees Think Super Smash Bros. Melee HD Will Never Happen
Two former Nintendo employees have shared their thoughts on why they believe Nintendo is unlikely to ever release an HD version of the popular mascot brawler Super Smash Bros. Melee. Krysta Yang and Kit Ellis left Nintendo in 2022 after numerous years with the company, later establishing a podcast where they discuss a variety of video game industry topics.
On their latest episode, Ellis said a hypothetical Melee HD “makes a lot of sense,” but also remarked that “it’s never going to happen.” Yang added, “It’s absolutely 100% never going to happen.”
Yang went on to say that Melee is surrounded by “negative things” that she believes Nintendo would not want to go anywhere near, like black market emulation and “all this other stuff that Nintendo does not like.”