Sega Puts Up Their Own M&S Winter Olympics Gamescom Footage

So Why did SoA Have Cleaner YouTube Footage Tossed?

As part of their Gamescom community video series, Sega of Europe has posted material directly from the vast setup from Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, and some of that does include some gameplay footage.

The nearly two and a half minute video features a tour of sorts, detailing the huge snowglobe on which one kiosk is perched, a setup where two players are running through the luge, and a quick glimpse of what appears to be the dream snowboard cross events, which runs through Radical Highway.

There are small glimpses of in-game footage at strange angles, but none of them are nearly as clear as the video German media outlet ComputerHilfen posted yesterday. We had carried the video for a few hours yesterday afternoon…until Sega of America put a copyright claim on it, for reasons unknown.

Fast forward to today, with Sega of Europe posting what is in effect a similar video, and a few interesting questions arise: How tight a lid is Sega trying to keep on in-game footage for this Olympic clash, and why?  And why is there such a stark difference of control between this game and other Sega fare, such as Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing.  ASR has not seen nearly the type of tight media control that Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games thus far.

We’ve put these tough questions to a source at Sega of America, and we hope to have an explanation on the matter soon.  In the interim, below is the video SoE has produced.

(UPDATE: The video below has been removed by Sega of Europe, and will be set for a re-edit.  Now we know why.)