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Is it really the end of Sonic or a new beginning

Posted by AshtonNextGen - August 18th, 2009


(Sorry I haven't gotten around to spell checking this yet, It was 5am when I wrote this.)
-Note: If you don't like Sonic then DON'T BOTHER READING THIS, You'll only be wasting your own time!-

My friend on deviantart recently brought this article to my attention sega-impossible-to-please-all-sonic-fa ns-with-one-sonic-game
It's an interview with Sega of America's vice president, discussing the future of sonic games and how they intend to deal with all their audiences.

While I admit, im finally glad they acknowledge theres a problem I really don't like Sega's attitude towards their audience.
I'm especially sickened by their plans to completely ignore us loyal dedicated fans now entirely in favour of the new generation (the 4kids generation).
I really don't know how anyone can be ok with this but this article only confirms my fears that Sega of America's arrogant attitude towards the franchise delivers them a deaf ear from the fact most of their audience all hate the new Sonic games and are losing interest by the minute.
in this prticular quote:
"I'd argue that we very much achieved that with products like Sonic Heroes on PS2, and I think we did that with Mario and Sonic 1 on Wii and DS. I think we did it some ways with Sonic and the Secret Rings on Wii."
This shows that dispite their unpopularity amongst fans, Sega only pays attention to the sales, not the sorrows.

I will say that this article is accurate in it's main point, and I myself have been saying this for years "It's impossible to appeal to every single sonic fan as every individual one has their own opinion in what makes a sonic game great." And yes, there is just no way of pleasing them all and every sonic game they make, people will always find something to complain about, but it seems to me now they're just giving up on the 'older audience' to focus all their attention solely on the new audience.
It's like those banking commercials where they only advertise the best deals to attract new customers and to hell with whoever the fucks been loyal to us from the begining of the company! We wanna make big bucks and thats all! It almost very makes me want to drop out and leave Sonic for good, face it, it's never gonna get any better, they even thought sonic 2006 sold well!?

I must admit he did go on near the end of the journal to meantion that he would appeal to the dedicated fans "Hayes and the rest of Sega want to make the old-time Sonic fans happy. They just need those fans to not expect their Sonic in every Sonic game."

But as I read on it seems to me that they plan on making NEW sonic games to appeal to the new generation and just simply rebrand old ports onto newer consoles to appeal to the nostagic fans, I'm really untrusting of this Hayes person, it really makes me wonder just what kind of people are running sega here.

Yeah they are right, you can't appeal to every single sonic fan all in one game as everyone has their own unique views on what makes a sonic game perfect but this article really doesn't comfort my fears of sonics demise, rather confirms it... =(

So in a nutshell folks? Don't expect your amazingly perfect new Sonic Adventure game or lush three dimentional rebrand of the old classics, do expect more Sonic and Mario olympic crossovers, new untested gimmicks and heaps more new Sonic characters to make those gimmicks all the worthwile, and also to appeal to the loyal dedicated sonic fan, tons more Sega Genesis ports on every new console just to show that they're thinking about your needs too! :) How lucky we all are to have followed Sonic this long down the road, eh?

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Is it really the end of Sonic or a new beginning


Comments

Is this about the new Sonic game "Project NeedleMouse" thats coming out next year?

Nah this is much older than that, Its really just sonic in general but I made this just after Sonic and Sega all star racing was announced

Let sonic die.

He was never good anyway.

He can do better, he just needs new management, sega don't know what they're doing anymore...