Project Sora

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Project Sora (プロジェクトソラ株式会社) is a subsidiary of the Japanese company Nintendo. The company was formed in 2009 by Satoru Iwata and former HAL Laboratory employee Masahiro Sakurai in 2009 after the success of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The company is mostly owned by Nintendo, while Sakurai's own Sora Ltd and third party companies make up 28% of the rest of the ownership.

Project Sora have yet to have developed a game, but they have been working on Kid Icarus: Uprising since at least 2010, when the game was announced at E3 2010. Kid Icarus: Uprising has an expected release data of March 16, 2012 in Europe, March 22, 2012 in Japan and March 23, 2012 in North America. At E3 2011, Shigeru Miyamoto suggested that Masahiro Sakurai is considering a fourth entry to the Super Smash Bros. series series for both the Nintendo 3DS and the Wii U. However development on the game has not yet started and Masahiro Sakurai has stressed that development on the title would not start until after the development of Kid Icarus: Uprising has finished. [1]