Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (マリオ&ソニック AT 東京オリンピック) is the sixth installment in the Mario &amp; Sonic series. It is a crossover sports and party game based on the real-world Summer Olympics in 2020, which will take place in Tokyo, Japan. This is the first installment in the Mario & Sonic series to skip an Olympic Games, as Ubisoft bought the rights to make 2018 Winter Olympics video games. It is set to be released in November 2019 on the Nintendo Switch. An arcade version is also set to be released in 2020.

Unlike in previous installments in the Mario & Sonic series, most characters wear sports clothing appropriate for the event that has been chosen. In addition to this, the game's title places the location and year after "Olympic Games" rather than before.

Gameplay
Like the previous entries in the Mario &amp; Sonic series, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is designed to be a sports game whose cast consists of a crossover of characters from Nintendo's Super Mario franchise and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series. By taking control of one of these characters, the player participates in various events based on sports games from the Olympic Games. The game includes a number of events, including returning ones from previous Mario & Sonic titles, such as boxing, soccer, swimming, and gymnastics, and new ones, such as karate, skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing.

The game will feature compatibility with the Nintendo Switch's Joy-Con controllers. The game will also feature split-screen local multiplayer and online play.

Characters
Not counting the Nintendo 3DS version of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is the first installment in the Mario & Sonic series that feature no unique character stats. However, each character has character type (such as All-Around, Power, Speed, Skill) from the first four games that give them different advantages.

Team Sonic

 * Sonic
 * Tails
 * Knuckles
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Vector
 * Silver
 * Shadow
 * Amy
 * Metal Sonic
 * Blaze

Supporting

 * Egg Pawn (Rugby Sevens team mates and Football goalie)

Team Mario

 * Mario
 * Luigi
 * Peach
 * Daisy
 * Yoshi
 * Wario
 * Waluigi
 * Bowser
 * Donkey Kong
 * Bowser Jr.

Supporting

 * Birdo (Football goalie)
 * Boom Boom (Rugby Sevens team mates)

Audience characters

 * Animals
 * Cuckies
 * Flickies
 * Peckies
 * Pickies
 * Chao
 * Neutral
 * Goombas
 * Koopa Troopas
 * Omochao (multiple)
 * Shy Guys
 * Toads

Referees, judges, and camera operators

 * Chao
 * Neutral
 * Charmy
 * Cream
 * Cubot
 * Lakitu
 * Orbot
 * Toads
 * Cheese

Unconfirmed

 * Zavok

Events

 * 100m Freestyle
 * Archery
 * 100m
 * 110m Hurdles
 * 4 x 100m Relay
 * Javelin Throw
 * Triple Jump
 * Discus Throw
 * Badminton
 * Boxing
 * Canoe Double (C-2) 1000m
 * Equestrian - Jumping
 * Fencing
 * Gymnastics - Floor Exercise
 * Football
 * Karate - Kumite
 * Rugby Sevens
 * Skateboarding - Park
 * Sport Climbing
 * Surfing - Shortboard
 * Table Tennis
 * Dream Events
 * Dream Karate
 * Dream Racing
 * Dream Shooting

History
In October 2016, it was announced by Sega that it had secured the licensing rights from the International Olympic Committee to publish video games based on the 2020 Summer Olympics. Their plans were for these games to be released on various devices. On 29 March 2019, at the Sega Fes stage show in Japan, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 was announced alongside Tokyo 2020 Olympics: The Official Video Game. This game is going to be the first entry in the Mario & Sonic series since the Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games edition, which was released for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS in 2016, and is scheduled to be released for the Nintendo Switch in late 2019, and an arcade version sometime in 2020. A companion game for Android and iOS, Sonic at the Olympic Games, will also be released in 2020.

Promotional
The game was featured at E3 2019. The official Nintendo lanyard that guests of the event received featured new artwork of Mario and Sonic in promotion of the game. A new trailer premiered, and a demo of the game was playable at Sega's booth.

Trivia

 * Most characters receive new outfits, unlike previous installments in the Mario & Sonic series.
 * This is the first game in the series where male characters have unique outfits.
 * This is also the first game where Peach and Daisy do not wear their traditional sports outfits.
 * The shoes Mario wears are identical to the ones he wears in Mario Tennis Aces.
 * Sonic wears shoes similar to the ones he wears in the Sonic Riders series.
 * Dr. Eggman wears gear similar to a piece of [[Media:Wallpaper 120 eggman 04 pc.png|artwork]] posted on Sonic Channel.
 * Yoshi, Bowser, Bowser Jr., Donkey Kong and Zavok are the only characters not to receive new outfits.
 * All Sonic series characters (aside from Dr. Eggman and Zavok), retain their footwear during the surfing and karate events unlike the Mario human characters. According to Takashi Iizuka, this is because “Sonic doesn’t take off his shoes (in canon)."
 * This is the first game in the Mario &amp; Sonic series where the Sonic character models resemble the ones used in the main series games, rather than the character models first used in Sonic and the Secret Rings.

Videos
Announcement Trailer = Reveal Trailer =