Olympics Go! away

“They wanted to look at other partners and NFTs and esports,” Lee Cockertold Eurogamer, regarding the decision to move the series away from Mario and Sonic. “Basically the IOC wanted to bring [it] back to themselves internally and look at other partners so they would get more money.”

Cocker was involved with several entries in the series while working at ISM Ltd, a firm responsible for managing the Olympic Games video game license.