Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-30168130-20161011015658/@comment-27973430-20161101041941

Orochimaru never had a body that could handle Sage Mode as such he never at any point in time had Sage Mode according to my knowledge the databooks never even called him a Sage. Look at his page. Kabuto has Sage Transformation which is what caused his weird snake transformation and due to the nature of Sage Transformation he will always be in his weird transformed state so long as he is in Sage Mode.