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Nintendo is currently a publishing company that publishes many series', including the Super Mario series, The Legend of Zelda series, the Kirby series, and the Metroid series and manufactures consoles such as the GameCube, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo DS, and the Nintendo 3DS. Their mascot is none other than Sonic's rival, Mario.

Contents 1 Console Wars 2 Post-Console wars 2.1 Final War 2.2 Third-party company 2.3 Crossovers 2.4 Collaboration 3 List of Consoles 3.1 Home 3.2 Handheld 4 Sonic games on Nintendo consoles 4.1 Handheld 4.2 Home Console 5 Trivia 6 References

Console WarsEdit

Nintendo and Sega's rivalry ignited with the fourth console war, where the Nintendo Entertainment System (or NES for short) was competing against the Sega Master System. Nintendo and Sega's rivalry expanded to to four different wars.

• NES vs. Master System (third generation)
• SNES vs. Sega Genesis (fourth generation)
• Nintendo 64 vs. Sega Saturn (fifth generation)
• Nintendo GameCube vs. Sega Dreamcast (sixth generation)

Nintendo and Sega were certainly not alone. During these wars, there were other systems. These include:

• TurboGrafx-16 (16-bit; fourth generation)
• PlayStation (32-bit; fifth generation)
• Xbox (sixth generation)
• PlayStation 2 (sixth generation)

Post-Console warsEdit

Final WarEdit

During the sixth generation, the Dreamcast did so poorly, that it lost to the the PS2 and never competed against the Xbox. The Dreamcast was then discontinued.

Third-party companyEdit

Sega's next move was announcing that they would not be making consoles anymore, and become a third-party company. Since then, Sega has worked with Nintendo to create many Sonic games on Nintendo systems, including Sonic Advance for the Game Boy Advance, and Sonic and the Secret Rings for the Wii.

CrossoversEdit

Sega and Nintendo started working to create crossover games between their mascots, Mario and Sonic. The first game was Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games for the Wii which featured Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Bowser, Wario, Waluigi, and Yoshi for Team Mario, and Sonic, Dr. Eggman, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Shadow, and Blaze for Team Sonic. The popular release caused the recent demand for Sonic to be in Super Smash Bros. Brawl to grow, and later on, he was confirmed to be in SSBB, which was also for the Wii. One year later, Sega released Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games which, again, was for the Wii, which included all the previous characters, with the addition of two new characters for each team: Bowser Jr. and Donkey Kong for Team Mario, and Metal Sonic, and Silver for Team Sonic. Then in 2011, Sega and Nintendo released Mario and Sonic at the 2012 London Olympic games which once again, was for the Wii, and had the same characters as Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter games.

CollaborationEdit

Along with Nintendo helping SEGA to fund the upcoming Bayonetta 2 for Wii U, Satoru Iwata announced on the second show of Nintendo Direct in 2013 that Nintendo and SEGA will be collaborating together to make three Nintendo console exclusive Sonic titles for the Wii U and 3DS. One title was confirmed to be Sonic Lost World and the other was the fourth-installment of the Mario and Sonic cross-over, Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. A third title is confirmed by the developers but hasn't been officially revealed. ^[1]

List of ConsolesEdit

HomeEdit

• Color TV Game
• Nintendo Entertainment System
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System
• Virtual Boy
• Nintendo 64
• Nintendo GameCube
• Nintendo Wii
• Nintendo Wii U

HandheldEdit

• Game & Watch
• Game Boy
• Game Boy Play-It-Loud!
• Game Boy Pocket
• Game Boy Light
• Game Boy Color
• Game Boy Advance
• Nintendo DS
• Nintendo 3DS

Sonic games on Nintendo consolesEdit

HandheldEdit

Home ConsoleEdit

TriviaEdit

• Nintendo had a magazine called Nintendo Power, which notably provided the first looks at Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sonic and the Black Knight, Sonic Colors, Sonic Generations, and Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed.
• Nintendo's and SEGA's logos are both the color of their respective mascots, Mario and Sonic.
  • Additionally, both Mario and Sonic sport the colors of red, white and blue.

ReferencesEdit

Nintendo at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia