Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games News Post

Nintendo Announces Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

05:46 PM - June 2, 2015 by ChaseB

Monday's "Micro" Nintendo Direct included a number of new game announcements, but there was only one representative from the sports genre: Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, which is coming to the Wii U and 3DS.

Mario and Sonic have been battling for Olympic supremacy since the series' 2007 Wii debut, and Nintendo plans to continue the mascots' sports rivalry sometime soon. No release date was announced, but here are some of the events and characters that were shown off in the minute-long trailer:

Events

100-Meter Dash
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Table Tennis
Soccer
Beach Volleyball
Rugby Sevens (Wii U exclusive)
Golf (3DS exclusive)

Characters

Mario
Luigi
Peach
Daisy
Yoshi
Birdo
Bowser
Bowser Jr.
Donkey Kong
Diddy Kong
Nabbit

Sonic
Tails
Knuckles
Dr. Robotnik
Shadow
Silver
Jet
Rouge
E-123 Omega

Nintendo did not reveal the game's developer, but the Twitter account @MarioSonicGames was mentioned as the trailer faded out. This is the same account Nintendo used to promote Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games, which is the most-recent entry in the series.

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Member Comments

# 1 BCDX97 @ 06/03/15 12:54 AM

I'm sad the only Winter Olympics game we got last time was the Mario game, but I guess there just aren't that many gamers into the Olympic games. Not expecting to get a real Olympics game this time, but still hopeful.