But if you’ve been wondering why two renowned faces have been absent this time, you’re not alone.
You might be one of the 300,000 people who viewed Lee Cocker’s X post about them.
Mario and Sonic.
Since the Beijing Olympics, the former video game competitors have collaborated on a series of tie-in releases featuring characters from both franchises.
Every four years, the mascots sprint, jump, and throw their way through a series of summer and winter Olympic sports, the most recent of which took them to their native Japan.
However, the world’s favorite plumber and Earth’s quickest hedgehog have not made a visit to it.
Is this the end of an era? News attempted to find out.
It’s that Olympic spirit.
Lee Cocker was the series’ executive producer for 17 years, working on every game from the 2008 edition until the Tokyo version.
He tells News that the thought of Mario and Sonic co-starring in a game was unimaginable in the 1990s.
However, by the early 2000s, Nintendo and Sega’s formerly intense rivalry had thawed.
