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| {{Infobox Company
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| |title = Sora Ltd.
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| |logo = [[File:Sora logo.png|200px]]
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| |type = Subsidiary of Nintendo
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| |founded = September 30, 2005
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| |headquarters = Tokyo, Japan
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| |key_people = [[Masahiro Sakurai]]
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| |industry = Video game industry
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| |products = Video games
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| |num_employees = 2 (including Masahiro Sakurai himself)
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| |parent = [[Nintendo]]
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| '''Sora Ltd.''' ({{ja|有限会社ソラ|Yūgen Kaisha Sora}}, ''Sora Company Limited'') is a Japanese video game developer founded by former [[HAL Laboratory]] employee [[Masahiro Sakurai]]. It was formed in the years following Sakurai's resignation from his position at HAL Laboratory.
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| Sora Ltd.'s first game was ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''. However, most of the development was handled by [[Game Arts]] and [[Monolith Soft]].
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| Sakurai created Project Sora, a division of Sora Ltd., in January 2009. They developed ''Kid Icarus: Uprising'' for the Nintendo 3DS, which was unveiled at E3 2011. On June 30, Project Sora was officially closed and the website has been updated with a message that states: "The Company was dissolved on 30 June 2012. Thank you very much for your patronage so far, this website will be closed as of July 31, 2012."<ref>http://nintendoeverything.com/93721/sakurais-project-sora-studio-to-be-dissolved/</ref> Sora Ltd.'s latest game, ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', co-developed by [[Namco Bandai]], was released for the [[Nintendo 3DS]] under the name ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]]'' in Japan on September 13, 2014, and on October 3, 2014 in North America and Europe, as well as releasing on the [[Wii U]] under the name ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Wii U]]'' on December 6, 2014 in Japan, on November 21, 2014 in North America, and on November 28, 2014 in Europe.
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| The company is currently co-developing ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' alongside a team at Bandai Namco, set for release on December 7, 2018 on the [[Nintendo Switch]].
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| ==References==
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| {{art-wikipedia|Sora Ltd.}}
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