It is safe to say that while Sonic has had a few low points in his career, the spiky blue hedgehog has remained extremely popular with gamers. SEGA has revealed today in its sales report that the company has shifted 800 million Sonic games since the start of his career on the SEGA Mega Drive, or the SEGA Genesis, if you live in the US. The latest Sonic title Sonic Mania was a return to form for Sonic and hopefully that trend will continue.
SEGA Has Revealed It Has Sold 800 Million Sonic Games
There’s no way it can be proven.
Hard to prove those early 90′ games, yeah. Shouldn’t be impossible with modern titles.
And most of these games…the modern ones are sh1t.
Are talking about Sonic Forces? If you’re talking about that yes but Sonic Mania no it’s not bad
Yes, i was talking about most f the “modern” sonic games such as forces, 2006 and the boom games. Mania is amazing and it shows that Izuka should leave the series to a competent team because sonic team isn’t that anymore.
Generations and Colours wasn’t that bad though.
Imagine how much more they would have sold if Shadow the Hedgehog,Sonic 06,Chronicles,Lost World,The Boom series,Secret rings,Sonic 4 and all the other bad/average games were actually good
That number seems big. Unbelievably big. Literally unbelievable. Even Mario hasn’t moved that many units, let alone Sonic. My guess is that number includes free mobile downloads of games such as Sonic Dash.
That is what I’m thinking too, because the Mario franchise is widely regarded as the best selling videogame franchise of all time (selling over 500 million units) and the Sonic franchise claims to have sold over 300 million more than Mario? The same Mario who plays tennis, golf, olympic sports, baseball, basketball, kart racing, and (an aggressive form of) soccer? The same Mario who has a paper-version of himself in a spinoff series of titles, Mario Party, AS WELL AS an RPG series and ALSO a long list of mainline games?
There are even more that I didn’t even mention. Mario is in basically every genre of videogaming and almost all of his game sell well.
I still love the blue blur despite his rocky history. He always had a special place in my heart.
They must be counting mobile game downloads
Yes these guys are counting the mobile downloads lol
Inflating it with free mobile games no doubt.
100 million people downloading some crappy forever runner mobile app isn’t exactly a sale.
The best selling console Sonic game is actually Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing. Interesting, huh?
I wonder where Sonic Forces ranks when it comes to sales. Like Shadow the Hedgehog, I quite enjoyed Sonic Forces so it doesn’t matter one way or the other, but I’m still curious.
Sorry. That is absolute bull. Isn’t sonic 2 on mega drive still the highest with 6m ?