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Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games will be made. It will be developed by SEGA of Japan and will be published by Nintendo for Japan and SEGA for North America, and Europe. The game is officially licensed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) through exclusive licensee International Sports Multimedia. It is the third installment of the Mario & Sonic series after the commercial success of its predecessors. The game will be released on the Wii and the Nintendo 3DS handheld on a date to be announced, and is an official video game of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
Mario & Sonic on the Wii and 3DS is a collection of numerous events based on the Olympic Games. Players can assume the role of a Nintendo or SEGA character while competing against the others in these events.
Gameplay
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games is a collection of numerous events based on the Olympic Games. Mario & Sonic brings together the two titular characters and eighteen more from both franchises to participate in environments based on the official venues of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The characters are divided into four categories: all-around, speed, power, and skill.
Several Olympic events on the Wii, including soccer, badminton, and equestrian will debut alongside improved versions of previously existing events such as athletics, aquatics, and table tennis. The Wii game will introduce new "Dream Events", which are alternate versions of Olympic events taking in place of locations from older games of the Mario and Sonic series. The Wii version also introduces new cooperative mechanics and a Party mode.
The 3DS version will have over fifty Olympic-based events in single-player and multiplayer.
Development
The first game in the series, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, is the first official crossover title to feature characters from both Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog's respective franchises. The Olympic Games were chosen as a setting since SEGA and Nintendo felt its competitive sportsmanship was ideal for the once-rival mascots Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario. Sonic the Hedgehog is the protagonist of the video game series released by SEGA in order to provide the company with a mascot to rival Nintendo's flagship character Mario in the early 1990s. Sean Ratcliffe, vice president of marketing at SEGA of America commented on whether the Mario & Sonic series had a future past its second installment, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. He said, "I think the key factor that decides the ongoing building of this franchise is basically success. Is the game successful? Are comsumers happy with it?"
A sequel was officially announced with a joint press release by SEGA and Nintendo on April 21, 2011, after its predecessors sold over 19 million units combined. It is an official video game of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games and is licensed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Early in its software development stages, a peripheral was considered to launch alongside the game. According to gaming magazine CVG, over 100 people are developing the game. It will be released on the Wii in North America in November 2011, and on the Nintendo 3DS handheld in North America in February 2012.
That's all of the information on the game for now. I'll keep an eye out on it and update the topic when more details are released.
