In the early 90’s Sonic’s main competition came from a certain plumber named Mario. When the transition to 3d came in the mid 90’s the Mario franchise was highly successful, whereas the Sonic franchise struggled to maintain the high level of quality from their 2d games. Ultimately, Sonic’s competition has become the negative feedback his games have received in the past decade. With the release of Sonic Colors, it seems Sonic Team is heading towards their former glory.
Sega has released its financial statement for the 2023-24 fiscal year, and profits may be up, but it's mostly not down to video games.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.
It was that garbage coh 3 that did them in only a special team can make a sequel worse in every way even though it was a 10 year gap and the same era.
Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol
looks pretty good. Still not used to seeing sonic on the Nintendo console
Same here. I might have to give this one a rent, gotta love that hedgehog