SEGA has confirmed that Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game will be released on June 22nd, and that it will be available on PC, Stadia, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and Stadia. It will also be available on the new gen consoles via backwards compatibility. The official game of the Summer Olympics looks quite arcade-like, leaning into the more casual look and atmosphere rather than being a full sports sim.
18 sports will be playable in Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game including the 100m sprint, tennis, table tennis, basketball, baseball, wall climbing, boxing, swimming, judo, rugby, beach volleyball, 4x100m relay, hurdles, hammer throw, long jump, and football. Players will be able to create their own avatars in the game and dress them up in costumes, such as an astronaut suit or a pirate get up. The game will support both local and online multiplayer as well. Locally it will be a co-op experience while online events will see 2-8 players compete against each other for the gold.
The Tokyo Olympics were delayed from Summer 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time of writing the Tokyo Olympics are still set to take place this summer even as Japan still deals with regional surges of the virus. Should the Olympics go ahead it will not have those same large, international crowds due to travel restrictions that have been imposed globally to reduce the spread of COVID-19 variants.
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