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"Their concept was 'two fighting as one,' continued Sakurai. He'd then go on to talk about Banjo-Kazooie's design a little bit. "In the Fighter’s Ballot, Banjo & Kazooie followed Sora," stated Sakurai.
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In the Famitsu Column, it was mentioned that a certain other character performed extremely well on this poll. "In the Fighter’s Ballot, Banjo & Kazooie followed Sora." - Masahiro Sakurai But now, after a long time, we were able to connect it to the result we have today." "We're sorry that we could not reveal the results. Iwata, who was still with us then, and we decided not to reveal the results," said Sakurai during the Sora presentation. "While this ballot was happening, we spoke with Mr. Ultimate as being the last mission given to Sakurai by Iwata before he was taken by complications from bile duct cancer. Sakurai always thought of Super Smash Bros. project director and the then President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, wanted to save some big surprises for the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's roster rather than Super Smash Bros. Much of the poll was referenced to develop Super Smash Bros. The simplest explanation here is that Sakurai wasn't being entirely honest about the results about the Smash Ballot. However, Sora quickly became the most requested character." - Masahiro Sakurai "There were a ton of votes from all over the world.