Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympics (Wii U): size, details, TV Commercial, screens

9 June 20169 June 2016 Lite_Agent Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympics, SEGA

Update: more screens for Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympics on Wii U have been added: you will find them below, just after the break!

***

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympics already came out on Nintendo 3DS, and the Wii U version will be out in roughly two weeks (with a worldwide release, this time around). Today, pre-loading went live in Japan: it lets players pre-purchase and pre-download the game right away, so that they only have to download a small update on launch day.

But in order to pre-load Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympics on your Japanese Wii U, you will need at least 2 863MB of free space on your console or its external HDD (which is significantly smaller than the European version, which requires 5 999.43MB of free space).

Here’s some “technical” details about the game:

Genre: Sports
Players: 1 to 4
Save data: 5MB per file, 1 file per Wii U user
Sound: Surround (Linear PCM)
Controllers: Wii U GamePad (required for Single Player, not compatible with Off-TV Play), Wii Remote (at least 1 required for Multiplayer, both Wii Remote and Wii Remote Plus are compatible)
Internet features: online leaderboards, Miiverse, receiving/sending ghost data, sending of play reports.

Here’s some additional screenshots for the Wii U version of Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympics: