Updated Box Art Suggests Everyone Gets Online Multiplayer
When Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing was announced, Sega’s press released noted online multiplayer support for up to eight people was a part of the package deal to gamers. But given the wide differences in gameplay and format that separated the next generation Sonic Unleashed and the Wii/PS2 edition, pared with the wide variety of formats ASR will be released on, who actually would get such capabilities was left open-ended.
XBOX Live support was confirmed from the beginning, and Playstation Network logos have been popping up with other ASR materials here and there, almost assuring users of the next generation consoles would enjoy the online multiplayer. Similar strengths weren’t so clear, however, on the Nintendo WIi and DS editions of the game–until perhaps now.
Updated, but still rather early box art is now circulating among retail websites such as Amazon and Gamestop, and for the Wii and DS editions, both boxes carry the Nintendo Wi-Fi network logo. If true, the ramifications are different for each console. For the Wii, this most likely means some online multiplayer component will be included, playable over the console’s built in Wi-Fi connection. It certainly could be comparable to the capabilities of the next-gen counterpart, but those detailsjust aren’t known right now. For the DS, other handheld users within a certain radius should be able to join in.
You can look at the box art for both versions below. TSSZ News will continue to track developments on this game.
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I think it is only for records.
If it’s another records one.. then geez. I want to race against friends also. That’d be so much fun. :/
oh wow now wii has online? wow.. cheap.
(EDIT – Irrelevant to story topic)
-T
I hope it`s for racing online & records
@blueblur This was not already obvious?
Anyway, I sure do hope it’s racing online. I didn’t know it was for DS too.
@blueblur: The wii has always had online. from the second it came out its online service was up. and like PlayStation Network its free
Anyways.. thats not the real boxart, but thats pretty obvious
Mario Kart has online racing & records on both Wii & DS, why shouldn’t Sonic Kart?
Uuu… I hope it’s racing. I want to play online with Osnic!
Skai Cyan: Maybe because SEGA doesn’t care about the Wii version? But we don’t know yet… maybe they do care!
i realy want to help sega i have new idea of sonic unleashed 2.
I want to help them with ASR, SU2, Sonic Riders 3 and Sonic and Atlantis. Have so many great ideas!
Jet has to be in ASR! And Chip has to come back in SU2! And we need some cooler moves and better cameras in SR3! And Sonic and Atlantis really needs a cool water control move!
@phillip & @Werehog: yhe me too we should writte a letter to Sega saying something
, i’m like you guys, I love to see Jet and the Werehog in ASR, and and I whis they make a SU2 with Chip and Metal Sonic 
Way Pass Cool…
Only recently I was able to download from the Xbox marketplace those DLC Sonic Unleashed packs, and I SIMPLY LOVE THEM, they make the game 2x times bigger, and mutch more complete, and SUPREME!!!
@Werehog: what is that game you talk about “Sonic Atlantis”?
Werehog : It`s a little 2 quick the 3rd storybook sonic game besides the 3rd might come out in 2011 since the first came out 2 years apart
sonic…atlantis? hmmm… i guess that’d be cool…but what would be the next storybook game?
Sonic Atlantis ? Unleashed all over again by making him a mere-hog
Whatever happened to Sonic and Knuckles on Xbox Live? Sonic 3 is out.
Sonic and Antlantis is the 3d story book game! It’s just perfect! I know SEGA has plans for it. I just know it!
The thing is that all the story book games has its own element.
Secret rings = fire
Black Kniht = wind
Antlantis = water!
And Sonic and Atlantis could be a really cool and new game! I know SEGA have plans for it… Or maybe they work with it right now as we speak!
@Werehog: humm… interesting, I like your ideia and I hope you’r right
, maybe in that game we could see silver again 
or Mephiles lool, but I hope that Sega use the Hegdheog Engine again, and make that game with the same quality that they had make Sonic Unleashed 
:D
……Am I the only one who thinks that Werehog, and SU are the same person, just trying to make it seem like his popuar, and well-liked? No offence, but these two have too many similarities for my liking. /:
Soul: Haha! Yeah, now when I think about it it… But, no! We are not the same person! I promise! Just look, I don’t like Mephiles. He was in Sonic 06! Hate that game…
SU: Yes, It’s realistic. Not a personal idea that anyone just can come up with like that. It’s more like something SEGA really could do!
SU: And about the hedgehog engine (forgot to say this)! The storybook series are on the Wii and Wii can’t handle the hedgehog engine. But I’m sure SEGA will use this beutiful engine again! They know that they are on the good path again and without that engine there going down!
Sweet. I only hope that it has online RACING, not just leader boards.