Featuring athletes such as Yoshihide Kiryu and Ai Fukuhara! Challenge the Top Athletes" on PS4/Switch "Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games The Official Video Game"! The 17th installment is available from today!

SEGA has released a free update today, Friday, May 15, 2020, for its current PS4/Nintendo Switch title "Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games The Official Video Game". With this, "Challenge the Top Athletes!" Part 17 is now available.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games The Official Video Game" is the official game title of the "Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games" scheduled to be held in July 2021. The game features events from the actual Olympics, such as the 100-meter run, baseball, boxing, and judo. The avatar function allows players to customize their character freely, so they can compete in the Olympics as an athlete themselves.

Today's distribution of "Challenge the Top Athletes! The 17th installment, which will be available until May 28, 2020 (Thursday), features Shuhei Tada, Ryota Yamagata, Yuki Koike, and Yoshihide Kiryu in the 4x100m relay, and Tomokazu Zhang and Ai Fukuhara in table tennis as opponents. Their avatars have extremely high abilities, and it seems that special titles will be awarded according to the number of victories.

A making-of video showing the process of creating avatars that look just like the players themselves is also available for viewing below.

Making video】 ※Titles omitted

Shuhei Tada

Ryota Yamagata

Yuki Koike

Yoshihide Kiryu

Tomokazu Harimoto

Ai Fukuhara

Future Schedule】 ※Titles omitted

■18th

Delivery date: Friday, May 29 - Thursday, June 11, 2020

Competition/Athletes:

4x100m Relay / Shuhei Tada, Ryota Yamagata, Yuki Koike, Yoshihide Kiryu

Table Tennis (Singles)/Tomokazu Zhang & Ai Fukuhara

Table Tennis (doubles)/Tomokazu Zhang and Ai Fukuhara

19th Vol.

Distribution Date: June 12 (Fri.) - June 25 (Thu.), 2020

Competition/Athletes:

4x100m Relay/Shuhei Tada, Ryota Yamagata, Yuki Koike, Yoshihide Kiryu

Swimming/100m Freestyle/Katsu Nakamura

Boxing/Satoshi Shimizu

20th Edition

Distribution Date: Friday, June 26 - Thursday, July 9, 2020

Competition/Athletes:

4x100m Relay / Shuhei Tada, Ryota Yamagata, Yuki Koike, Yoshihide Kiryu

Judo/Kosei Inoue

Beach Volleyball/Kaho Sakaguchi, Reika Murakami

21st Vol.

Distribution Date: Friday, July 10, 2020 - Thursday, July 23, 2020

Athletes/Athletics:

Athletics - 100m / Yoshihide Kiryu

Swimming - 200m Individual Medley / Takeshi Matsuda

22nd Edition

Distribution Date：July 24 (Fri.)～August 27 (Thu.), 2020

Athletes: All events / Saori Yoshida, All events / All athletes

Information】】】 Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games The Official Video Game

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games The Official Video Game

Genre: Official Olympic sports game

Compatibility: PlayStation 4 / Nintendo Switch

Players: 1 or 2 players *Up to 8 players when playing online

Release date: Now on sale

Price: 4,990 yen (excluding tax)

CERO: B (for ages 12 and up)

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