Nintendo closes Project Sora

MCV Staff 11th July 2012 Business News

Kid Icarus: Uprising developer Project Sora has been closed, it has been revealed.

The studio’s homepage confirms that it was dissolved on June 30th with the website itself going offline on July 31st,CVG reports.

Project Sora was a subsidiary of Nintendo and a division of Masahiro Sakurai’s Sora Limited. It was formed in 2009 following the release of Super Smash Bros Brawl on the Wii. Nintendo owned almost three quarters of the company.

The studio had been expected to co-develop the Wii Su Super Smash Bros title alongside Namco Bandai.

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