Sakurai and Nintendo Team Up to Form Project Sora

By Joel Lutherlutherjw. Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:50:36 PM

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It's kind of sad when a random day in February has more news than an E3 press conference. Nevertheless, we have some more major news to report today.

Last night, Nintendo announced the formation of "Project Sora", a new first-party development studio formed as a result of a partnership between Nintendo and Masahiro Sakurai. Sakurai, as I'm sure many of you know, is the creator of the much-loved Smash Bros. and Kirby franchises.

We unfortunately don't know, um, anything about what Project Sora is working on, other than the fact that they are indeed working on a new title. We also know that the project is not Smash Bros., is being marketed at the "hardcore", and is apparently something that will revolutionize the way you play games.

You can check out the official (Japanese) site here, along with an English translation of the Iwata Asks interview here.

Speculation? I'm betting we'll see something out of Project Sora at this year's GDC conference, which Iwata is headlining.

via Kotaku

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Comments

MatthewHallucin0gen Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:04:38 PM

OOOOOOOOOHHHH.... I wanna touch it... Revolution...

SpookSpook81 Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:10:05 PM

Much anticipation at the "something that Nintendo couldn't do on its own" comment... oooh, yeah... the Wii is finally getting some hardcore love (wait... that didn't sound right hehehehe)

.edDotEd Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:12:20 PM

Virtual Boy.

Charles SchlossChas4 Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:28:04 AM

Anyone one have a guess as the name of the first project?

Haavardhaavard Monday, February 23, 2009 11:00:12 AM

Kid Icarus? right

SpookSpook81 Monday, February 23, 2009 4:19:45 PM

Kirby Smash Plus Super Ultra Puyopop 3000 X3 Touch: A collection of mini-game fighters in a puzzle-based platformer where you can play as Kirby and recruit an army of robots alongside MegaMan...bigeyes

Albert AppletonEaglecary Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:15:57 PM

Well personally I hope it's a project allowing users to design their own games and possibly, whisper it, upload them to Wii/DSi Shop.
One minute I send a request to Ninty and they reply with "we've passed on your request to the next level blah de blah". A fortnight later Reggie Fils-Aime expresses his thoughts on user-generated content and now Project Sora. "Nintendo wanted to make it but they couldn't" sounds like it; they couldn't make it because they'd end up putting in Mario or Zelda AND the best level creator to date has to be Brawl's. So are all these points just a mere coincidence? I think not!!

Albert AppletonEaglecary Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:18:43 PM

P.S. Write2Play Issue One (Sept 09) will have an in-depth analysis on the NGM idea (Nintendo Game Maker)

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