The Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games are finished, according to a developer who previously worked on the series.
Lee Cocker, a former developer who worked on the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series, took to Twitter/X to share that there will be no new game for the Paris 2024 Olympics. He added that the franchise finished with Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Cocker mentioned that he had worked on all entries in the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series. He revealed that the Olympic video game license is currently with nWayGames. The company has released two Olympic Games titles, namely Olympic Games Jam for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and Olympics Go! for Paris 2024.
The Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games developer said that he doesn’t believe we will see a character based game like Mario and Sonic again. He mentioned that it will likely be a sport based avatar creation game, and he expressed interest in seeing what happens at the Olympic Esports Event next year in 2025.
For the uninitiated, the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series features games set during the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, bringing together characters from the Mario series and Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The series began in 2007 with the Beijing 2008 edition, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, for the Wii. Nintendo published the East Asian versions of the first three games and fully published the fourth and fifth games, while Sega published the Western versions of the first three games and fully published the sixth game, with Nintendo providing character licenses.
The series ended when the International Olympic Committee allowed the licensing deal to lapse in 2020. The final entry, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, is a sports game based on the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was developed and published by Sega, and was released for the Nintendo Switch in November, 2019 and for arcade cabinets in 2020.
