CVG’s Mike Jackson sat down with Sega Europe COO and President Mike Hayes and Nintendo of Europe’s marketing director, Laurent Fischer, to discuss the new Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. The game will bring the two game icons together for the first time in Beijing, China for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Check out the excerpt below.

Discussing the possibility of Sonic and Mario appearing in the same game, Yuji Naka once told me that he was concerned about how different the two characters were. Is that one of your key concerns?

Hayes: Not at all. If is was a Sonic world and we Mario trying to run around collecting rings it wouldn’t be right. So that is why the Olympics arena is perfect to bring them together. The two characters can compete quite sensibly in that environment.

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