THURSDAY UPDATE: Source of Leaks Allegedly Tracked Down; Sega: “No Comment”
Coming from the department of “this looks legitimate to me but we’ll post it as a rumor to stay on the side of caution” is a news tip from GhostSeven, who has provided us with box art scans from a couple of upcoming Sega games:
Both images call back to an October story we posted in conjunction with Sonic Paradise regarding Izaskun Urretabizkaia’s comments on a game then-titled “Sonic Anniversary” and a new Mario & Sonic game focused on the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Both box art shots apparently emerged from a Brazilian gaming website called gameLib, though the specific details of how and where they came from are not readily apparent as they aren’t attached to any visible news story.
Not to get all “I have seen quite a few shops in my time and I can tell by the pixels” on you, but by my eyes, both images look pretty legitimate, and bear no immediately obvious hallmarks of being tampered with. “CAPA NÃO DEFINITIVA” is Portuguese, and translates to “COVER NOT FINAL”.
Outside of confirming the new Mario & Sonic game set for release this year, this connects the dots from Sega’s untitled Facebook teaser to the name “Sonic Generations“, a connection many had assumed but was never set in stone.
TRISTAN UPDATE: For those doubting the authenticity of the story, the Brazil based Power Sonic actually followed up with our tipster, and they explain the box art surfaced via Brazilian based distributor MC Games, who first received the creative. MC Games does distribute some Sega games in Brazil, and according to the Power Sonic report, it appears someone within the company gave it to GameLib. The box art was intended to promote pre-release activity.
In their coverage, CVG reached out to Sega for comment, to which a firm “no comment” was given.
Depending on how this goes, this may be subject to our Sensitivity Rule.
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@soranamineforever
I think you’re forgetting the part where it says “Cover Not Final”.
Holy crud, look how tall Sonic got over the years
Wait a minute. I thought Mario and Sonic were suppose to star in a Mario Party Clone. I WANT MY MONEY BACK. XP
@Ryan Bloom
lol I’d agree with you except I can create something like this myself if I wanted to so sorry but it could EASILY be fake. I don’t think it is. I’m 90% sure it’s real, but that 10% is just me thinking realistically. Since I don’t really know there’s always room for it to be fake. Since some people HAVE TALENT, that person could have done something with that talent. Some people DO have the models and yes some have high-definition 3D models. There’s also been plenty of time to make a Classic Sonic model if they didn’t already have one since it’s possible they did since there are a few out there that look like the one in the trailer.
You don’t think an artist has the ability to make an image not look like it was edited? I mean, that’s the whole GOAL of being the artist of such a small project: Making it look convincing. If an artist draws something and it looks like it’s an edit of something else, that’s not very good. lol
Heck it could’ve been combined. It could be they have models but used art to alter the look a little to fix the differences. And by “no other programs” do you mean no other than photoshop? Because there’s a lot of programs out there that could be used. I used a cheap old program to make a picture I once posted that people claimed was “photoshoped”. That’s how I found out about photoshop. lol
Also, anyone not catch the dark blue choppe line outlining Modern Sonic’s finghter? Maybe it’s real but it was cut out it’s original background and played on a while background. Maybe it’s real but it’s not the actual cover? lol
And as Sonic hasn’t aged, he hasn’t grown taller either. So the difference in height here is confusing. How can they look like that and both be 3’3? lol
Mario and Sonic:: Dissapointment 3
and
Sonic Generations
That is how I see this.
Greeeaaat, another Olympics game? If this is true, then I probably won’t buy it, seeing as how it’ll pretty much just be a clone of the first one, minus the local difference. And I already own the first one. So I dunno, I’m leaning a little more towards fake: I’d expect a move like that from Sega, but to Nintendo I give a little more credit–I’m sure they’d see the pointlessness in making a THIRD Olympics game.
And as far as Generations, I don’t know about anyone else, but that looks more like the SONIC 4 model than anything else–not really like the unleashed-esque version seen in the trailer.
Doesn’t mean it’s not “real”, though I really doubt it’s anywhere near the final box art. After what we got for Colors, which I thought had great box art, this would be pretty insulting.
OH, and I see many are saying how short classic sonic is–yeah, but if you go back and look at the trailer, he is a lot shorter than modern sonic. It’s difficult to tell when they’re running, but when classic sonic first appears, he’s really pretty small compared to modern. And in that “box art” modern seems more out of proportion compared to classic, IMO.
In the end, I just want some gosh darn official info out of Sega already. Jeez.
Who knows, the next Olympics could have a plot or maybe really different from the others.
First Olympic Sales: 7.09 million on Wii and 4.22 million copies on DS sold.
Second Olympic Sales: 5.67 Million.
Third One: 3.04 Million (I Guess)
The Generations box looks ugly. Why is modern Sonic twice the size of classic Sonic? I think it would look a lot better if they were similar in size.
Anyway, I don´t see the Sonic name on the box at all, so it´s either still being designed or it´s just a fake…
looks really fake to me
Do you remember temporary Colors covers? They were freaking cyan all over it. Not to say I don’t like cyan, but this can be the temporary cover.
Also, did anyone notice that the pose is slightly off? Isn’t the leg that’s bent supposed to be in front of the one that’s straight? This is the other way around. Not complaining or anything, I don’t care in the slightest, but this could be a hint that it’s fake. Modern Sonic’s left arm (with the pointing hand) seems to be coming out of his back quills or something too. Dunno what to believe.
@KMetalMind: Because that’s how modern Sonic is, a lanky ugly mess. Thank god for the return of classic Sonic!
Ugh… another Olympics game? And my Mario vs Sonic game petition still only has six signatures. Yay…
Also, the beta Generations box-art looks okay… but Classic Sonic looks ugly. And yes, I did just say that. Go ahead, retro-fans. Flame me. At this point, I really don’t care.
Hm. Classic Sonic still looks a little funky. Ah well, I’ve always liked “Modern” Sonic more, anyway…
I think it’s fake … only for a single reason: The harvest has not (yet) offices in Brazil.
i feel like the generation one is fake…or i’ve just been prank way too many times with the “leaked” box art.
and hey, isn’t the olympic one suppose to always have a mario or a sonic (or both lol) in the background? the olympic one looks kinda…..plain. I’m not COMPLETELY sure if they’re fake or not.
well the page for mario and sonic got taken down. wonder what happened.
@RaggtimeSonic
Yeah, check that out, he’s a whole head’s height taller,
I really hope that these are real….
You know what would be a cool Mario and Sonic game?
“Mario and Sonic Super Adventure”
A 3D PLATFORMING game featuring Mario and Sonic.
But, these game box arts could be fake. Any one could have made these on paint or something. Just to start up rumors.
They both look pretty legit to me considering there not final.
From everything I’ve read around the net everything seems to be coming true, there was rumors of 3 sonic games coming out this year this would be…
Sonic Generations
Sonic & Mario At The Olympic Games 2012
Sonic 4: Episode 2
I do recal reading about a Mario & Sonic game that wasn’t sports related, maybe it’s in early dev and will be out sometime in 2012.
Either way I love sonic and those are my 2 cents
@Ryan Bloom
Final or not, its still incredibly glaring when you leave out what should be the ‘essential’ part of the title. ‘Generations’ means nothing without ‘Sonic’
@Goodman
You’d expect this from SEGA, but not from the company that has pumped out TEN Mario Parties?
@Cloverdox
Sorry, but those reasons aren’t really good examples as to why it could be fake. That would imply that it is impossible for SEGA to change it.
At the same time, you’re wrong. The bent leg goes BEHIND the straight leg. The thing is that in the original Classic image, Classic Sonic is facing the left of the picture with his left arm up and his left leg bent while in this picture he is facing the opposite direction with his right arm up and right leg bent. But this is probably just because he’s on the left side of the picture as Modern Sonic is facing the same direction as Classic Sonic in the original image with his left arm up and leg bent.
As for the arm thing, that’s because Modern Sonic’s torso is somewhat rectangular shaped sometimes with a round and sometimes rectangular stomach (A signicant different from Modern Sonic and Adventure Sonic as Adventure Sonic always used both an oval shaped torso and oval or egg shaped stomach)
Because of this, the top half of Sonic’s torso has also grown wider since the Adventure series to allow for “Shoulders”. Since the arms come from these “shoulders”, Sonic’s arm looks like it’s sprouting from further back because of the angle. This model also makes Sonic’s arms look like seperate objects that are merely attached to the torso and bent at the attachment, part of what makes him look so “flimsy” these days. In the Adventure series they still sprouted like the classics but they were really skinny close to the torso and got wider as it got closer to the wrists. The arms were also much longer and curved so that from far away and at certain angles it’d look normal. This is don’t for technical reasons rather than design reasons and I think the same goes for Modern Sonic’s model too. They’ve never gotten that part quite down. Even Classic Sonic’s arms stick out kinda weird in 3D. lol
@FoxBoy
Oh, wow…
Where have I been? You’re totally right. I could have sworn the bent leg was in front. Every time I thought of that classic artwork, that’s the way I’d see it in my head.
And I understand what you mean about the arm thing. I take back everything I said, haha. Well, except for what I said about a new Mario and Sonic sports game. I’m almost positive that most people don’t want another. >_>
Why? I kind of expected a better crossover game.