Interview with M&S Devs Outline the Trouble
There will be a third collaboration between Mario and Sonic when the next Olympics title is released. There have, in the past, been murmurs of a willingness by both Sega and Nintendo to break out of that mold. So why hasn’t it happened yet?
That was explored in an interview published Monday on Spong.com. Writer and Sonic Stadium founder Svend Joscelyne interviewed the developers behind the next title, producers Osamu Ohashi and Nobuya Ohashi, along with directors Eigo Kasahara and Kohji Shindo. Joscelyne asked why the sports party game route was taken instead of a pure platformer. Osamu Ohashi responded both Sega and Nintendo discussed developing such a game, but core differences between the two franchises kept the possibilities from ever going forward:
These characters come from two totally different backgrounds, and have completely different worlds. If you do any kind of collaboration, you can’t just get them to run on one of the Sonic stages or vice versa. You have to create something from scratch, a neutral location. Nintendo and SEGA never managed to agree on just where or what kind of universe we could set a Mario and Sonic adventure in.
Then, some time ago, SEGA secured a license to create games based on the Olympics. At that point I came up with the idea of having Mario and Sonic compete with each other in the Olympic games setting. We proposed that idea to Nintendo and they were really positive and interested in the idea, so that is where we started building it into a concrete game proposal.
The interview can be read in full at the above cited link.
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Why can’t there be a game where Sonic and Mario accidently switch worlds. Sonic’s stages will be slowed down and will focus on platforming so Mario can play them. Mario’s stages will be sped up, Sonic style, so he can blaze through the levels. Mario can fight Eggman with Tails, and Sonic can save Pricess Peach from Bowser!
My bad Beau, I didn’t know I was just repeating what u said. Come on Segtendo, if 2 different people who don’t even know each other can agree on an amazing video game idea then so can u!
Cmon sega and nintendo why cant we a good adventure game?a mario and sonic platformer will AWESOME,mario can be just as fast as sonic we can mix the super mario 64 gameplay and sonic adventure gamplay and mario and sonic can use thier own team blast and set of sweet moves and instead that cliche story of “bowser and eggman teaming up mario and sonic must stop them” the story has to be intresting and epic.sega, nintendo please think of your fans, we dont want dumb sports game where the characters compete in the olmypics. in my opinion i think its stupid and off character. im not saying the olympics are bad just please make us happy.