Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games is a Wii U game and is the fourth installment in the Mario & Sonic series. It includes a variety of events from the winter games such as skiing figure skating and curling. As the title implies the game is centered around the 2014 Olympic Winter Games taking place in Sochi Russia. Different events uses the Wii Remote Plus controller Wii U GamePad or both. As the other games in the series it features realistic events with ones in Mario's and Sonic's worlds. As the game is a Wii U exclusive Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games is the first in the series to not have a handheld version.