Left HAL Laboratory in 2003 due to him wanting more freedom and became tired of HAL making sequels. He eventually formed his own company "Sora" which made games like Meteos, Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Kid Icarus: Uprising. Sakurai is for now working in Bandai Namco Games Inc. for the new Super Smash Brothers for the Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.