The Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games franchise is coming to an end after a 13-year run, as Nintendo and SEGA no longer own the license for the Olympic Games. Those hoping for a Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 game will be disappointed to discover that the official game of the Olympic Games is a free-to-play title released solely on mobile and PC.
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F2P mobile gaming and Web3 developer nWay now has the Olympic Games license, which the studio has used to create Olympics Go! Paris 2024 for iOS, Android and PC. The free-to-play game features 12 mini-games, including swimming, fencing, golf and archery, and the ability to build your own “dream city around Olympic venues featuring iconic landmarks.”
The news comes from former ISM Ltd Executive Producer Lee Cocker, who worked on official Olympic video games on behalf of the International Olympic Committee’s global license holder. He confirmed to X (formerly Twitter) that Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 would be the sixth and final game in the franchise. Apparently, a Paris 2024 game was never planned for the franchise.
Cocker later told Eurogamer that the International Olympic Committee "wanted to look at other partners and NFTs and esports. Basically the IOC wanted to take [it] back internally and look at other partners so they could get more money." The Olympic license had now been passed on to nWay, whose first game was the Winter Olympics tie-in Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022.
