Why Sega Doesn't Care When Sonic Sucks

It's the money, stupid. And enough gamers buy crappy Sonic games for Sega not to care, according to an anonymous Sega employee. Boss Rush was an anonymous blog, currently deleted, run by someone who actually turned out to be Sonic Europe employee Ben Andac (who is no longer with the company).

[Yi-Long]

... we already knew Sega didnt give a **** (hoot) about Sonic, or it's fans.

The best Sonics were Sonic 1, Sonic 2, and Sonic CD. After that, it went downhill.

I still really hope for Sega going back to 2d sprite-based Sonic PLATFORMER (not a 2D racer that's boring as hell, Sega!), but I doubt it will ever happen. We'll probably have to make do with unofficial 2D Sonic platformers.

(BTW, that site gives me an annoying pop-up about firefox or something, while I'm not even browsing with firefox...)

[interrergator]

i miss those days but sonic unleashed was pretty fun just too many wherehog stages

[LokMessier]

Hopefully Sonic will go the route megaman went and go back to the routes. A PSN, WiiWare, and XBL title would sure be a lot better than the unleashed stuff that we recently received.

In all honesty the day stages are fun, I've played the demo maybe six times total, but the night stages are where it's dragged down. It's like Sega just loves making something look so remarkably good that soon they will drag it down with something that shouldn't be there.

[interrergator]

lok messier i enjoyed the wherehog stages i wish they were sort of even out i have the wii version kicks @ss

[Ryudo]

Sonic 2HD would be awesome

[LokMessier]

Werehog stages looked nice for a bit of the time when I first saw the trailer and game play; but...I heard that the levels were unbalanced. Meaning there were more werehog stages than their were sonic stages, also did the Wii have more werehog stages or was it about the same still?

[ChickeyCantor]

instead of sonic 3 you said sonic CD?
Sonic CD was the starter where Sega went wrong!

[interrergator]

lok messier i only have the wii version which i think is alot better that the 360 version and yea more wherehog stages stays the same

[SSCOOLCHEA]

look at the wiiiiiiiiii...retarded azz games for the stupid to buy...

wii sports 40 million . what a fkn joke in gaming history and the yahoos at yahoo is proud writing a story like that...fkn idiots . i have never seen any kids play that game just retarded azz adults showing off "" hey look am playing videogames " oh s.t.f.u.

[tda-danny]

While I dont disagree entirely with what you saying... theres a reason you only have one bubble

[AWBrawler]

good you got that out your system. do you feel better now? you're like that one guy standing outside the theatre when the original star wars launched screaming "it sucks don't watch it!" Too late. Wii know what we like.

[Ldubbz]

To think about is Sonic games are primarily aimed at a younger demographic than most of us on here belong to, so what we see as bad or good that age range isnt probably even aware of.

Now that doesnt mean they cant satisfy both groups at once, but there simply is no need to include features or bells and whistles that most people playing the game wont even appreciate.

[Yi-Long]

1: The first Sonic games (the 2d sprite-based ones) were fun to play for EVERYONE. not just the young and easily pleased, but also the older generations lapped it up. it was perfect, and can even be enjoyed today.

2: Just because you aim your games at a very young demographic, doesnt mean they should release BAD games. There are many games that also 'aim' at a young demograhic, but also appeal to the older people, like Ratchet and Clank, Zack and Wiki, Mario, etc etc.

Just because kids are YOUNG, doesnt mean they're stupid.

[Enigma_2099]

*sigh...*

[poopsack]

loved em both.

[Aclay]

Sonic was one of the major flagship mascots for Sega back when they were in the console business and to me they are only disrespecting Sonic's legacy by continuing to churn out less than stellar Sonic games.

I was never a Sonic fan and I've only played a few Sonic games that were on the Sega Genesis, but I think that Sega should take the Sonic series back to the Sonic Adventure roots. I remember I watched a friend play Sonic Adventure on his Dreamcast many years ago and it looked really fun. And on top of that, Sonic Adventure got good review scores.

If Sega was still in the Console business, I think that they would actually care about the Sonic franchise, but since they aren't, it's like Sonic is just a money train... that's just sad.

[deno]

I love the sonic adventures. The problem is yuji naka the sonic creator and the creator behind games like nights, burning rangers and many more excellent sega games has departed. It's like making metal gear solid without hedio kajima. Bubbles for you friend!!!

[AWBrawler]

screw ratings! I'm a sonic fan and the only sonic game i played recently that sux is Shadow the Hedgehog. Well it didn't suck, but it wasn't sonic. it was weird. Sonic Adventure is the single greatest sonic to date, and Secret rings, though cutscenes suck and story is meh, was more fun than Mario Galaxy for me. Sonic Chronicles was awesome, and unleashed was cool. I like the werehog. I hope he gets in the next Smash bros. Sega is appealing to the sonic fans. Sonics always had cheesy generic stories, and corny catch phrases, but thats what we love about him.Sonic adventure having such an awesome story was a fluke, albeit a good one. I look forward to sonic and the black knight. The song gets stuck in my head,and since I fancy myself a samurai/knight, sonic with a sword is heaven.

[smokeymicpot]

Why should they care if people still buy the crap.

[AWBrawler]

You call crap on sonic, I call crap on Gears of war, or should i say bad dudes 2008. To each its own, and this is mine. sonic is my favorite video game character ever, and SEGA was my favorite company until dreamcast died and a lot of their classics were lost. I literally cried when SEGA dropped out. The main reason I got a cube last gen, was because it looked like a dreamcast a little, and Sonic games, PSO, and other SEGA games went there.

[Knightofelemia]

Sonic need to take a break while Sega sits back and thinks like Nintendo, and how they can breath new life into Sonic. Mario is a chracter who constantly changes and does new things. I will rent the new Sonic Unleashed but i hope it is better than the one that was last released. Sonic was also good in Mario and Sonic in the oylmpics.

[killcycle]

SONIc was only good on sega platforms i gues.

Once it hit other consoles like ps2, ect it went downhill but people gotta stop saying the only good sonics were the genesis versions because the dreamcast versions were amazing.

[american_ninja]

Considering Sonic the Hedgehog for the Xbox 360 and PS3 was one of the all time worst Sonic and one of the worst game that have ever existed, this doesn't come off exactly as a surprise.

The Sonic and the Secret Rings producer once did say that that game was clearly rushed, especially when only one available team had to work on both versions of the game.

However, if Sonic Unleashed is any indication, things have changed for the better. SU is not the masterpiece that everyone wanted, but it is a step in the right direction.

And with Sega now actually being vocal and admitting that the last Sonic games weren't up to standards, maybe the nex upcoming Sonic games will at least be decent.

FYI, the guy who wrote that article is being a tad misleading, Sonic has always been milked even in the early Genesis days. There's was at least one or two Sonic games released every year since 1991.