
SEGA president Shuji Utsumi has mentioned in a latest interview that he feels that Sonic Superstars turned out to be a disappointment for the corporate and didn’t reside as much as the corporate’s expectations. Nevertheless, he says that he’s immensely happy with Sonic x Shadow Generations as that turned out to be not solely an incredible sport however acquired good evaluations from the gaming press and players alike. He then went on to say that 2025 goes to be “subsequent degree” for the long-running franchise.
When Nintendo places out a mainline Mario sport, it’s an enormous occasion. One solely comes out each 5 years or so. There’s at all times a brand new theme, however it’s nonetheless essentially ‘Mario’. At one level there have been so many Sonic video games popping out, it felt like there was no high quality management. It simply felt like a fiscal obligation. What are you doing to extend the standard degree of Sonic video games?
Utsumi: That’s an excellent query. We had been making an attempt to do one thing artistic with Sonic Frontiers. With Sonic Superstars it turned out to be a disappointment, when it comes to the end result in comparison with what we delivered. This time we’ve got Sonic X Shadow Generations and the following Sonic film, so we’re pushing issues within the transmedia path – films and video games working in concord to make issues larger. However the core [of the experience] is the sport. The sport must be superb or else there is no such thing as a transmedia impact.
The Sonic X Shadow Generations sport is definitely superb, I might say superior, action-wise. However beginning subsequent 12 months, it’s going to be the following degree, as you’ll simply see at TGA.
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