Mario & Sonic sell 5 million, follow up uncertain
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 at 11:25am by Jack
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games for Wii and DS has sold a combined five million copies to date, but that success doesn’t necessarily mean another collaboration between Nintendo and Sega developers is a sure thing.
“Getting Mario and Sonic together in the first place took so long, every decade, to make that happen,” Sega of America COO and president Simon Jeffery said in a phone interview with Next Generation. “So I think rushing into any other collaboration is not going to happen. It’s going to be fairly calculated.”
Launched on November 6, the game was published by Sega in the West and Nintendo in Japan. Throughout it all, the watchful eye of Shigeru Miyamoto was allegedly ever present.
Personally, I was hoping that a game that finally united two of the 1990’s most iconic video game rivals would have been something, I dunno, different than a game centered around the Olympics. With all this success, however, is it too much for a guy to ask that the next one, should it be made, be Mario and Sonic No Holds Barred Cage Deathmatch?
March 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am
I want a mario and sonic 2-d platformer. What’s the point of it all if not a 2-d platformer. Olympics? Lame. A genuine Mario & Sonic game? Classic.
March 5th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Gradius that’s an awesome idea.
March 5th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I think we Americans forget just how big a deal the Olympics still are to people in other countries.
March 5th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Mario & Sonic should be in a crossover kind of RPG for their next game if there ever even is one other than SSBB. All in all, if you ask me, Mario & Sonic’s first starring roles together should have been an RPG in the 1st place.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I think they should make Mario and Sonic party.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Better yet they could do an awesome 3D action/adventure platformer on the Wii and do the 2D platformer on DS. An rpg could be cool. Paper Mario & Sonic that plays more like the N64 one would be cool. The Olympics game pretty much is a party game and Sonic Shuffle wasn’t that good, so I’d have to draw the line there. You don’t wanna make Sonic a permanent member of Nintendo’s cast of characters.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
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Regards,
Gil Mayron
#1 Wii Tennis Player in The World
March 5th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Wha? Is that spam in the Infendo thread? What’s going on here?
March 5th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
“Mario and Sonic No Holds Barred Cage Deathmatch”
It’s called Super Smash Brothers Brawl, out this week and it’s gonna be sweet.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Put Mario in the Sonic RPG coming out! Secret character ftw
March 5th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
These games wer not so great, really.
Now, a TRUE platform game. 2D or 3D woulod be totally great !
“Gil Mayron
#1 Wii Tennis Player in The World” … LOL !!!!!
March 6th, 2008 at 3:18 am
Platform with the latters won’t work: Sonic can’t jump and Mario can’t run so, even if they were in the same platform, level design must be different for the duo, and it won’t make the game any better!
As somebody else said, RPGs are a better idea and way more fun to play, giving the two the occasion to have some chats!
Other than that they could only be used for minigames, as this one, or used as a special guest like in Brawl!
March 6th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Hey, I know! How about a game where Mario rides on Sonic’s back so they can go super fast, then when they need to jump they flip and Mario bounces them into the air. I would call it Mario-Sonicazooie.
Apologies to Rare.
March 6th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
@Gradius: I’m not huge on the classics, but that idea is pure GENIUS.