SEGA has revealed that the Sonic the Hedgehog brand franchise sales are currently down year-over-year. They only shifted 1.76m Sonic game sales between October and December 2026. This is compared with 3.45m the year before. SEGA also said that Sonic Rumble failed to meet company expectations and the company didn’t comment on Sonic Racing CrossWorlds in its quarterly report.
Sonic franchise sales are down year-over-year
Judging by the comments I’ve seen on this website, the fans really want a NSFW dating sim.
I want something that is Sonic Frontiers meets Just Cause
“Highest grossing” videogame franchise 🤣
It’s hard to call 1.7 million copies in 3 months bad imo
But sonic is a multiplatform franchise (mobile phones, steam and dedicated gaming consoles) so 1.7 million pales in comparison if it were a single platform exclusive.
That amount would be good for let’s say kirby which is a experience that cannot be bought elsewhere.
I haven’t played a Sonic game since Dreamcast; Sega trying to bring the dead back to life
In 2025 i guess but yeah this trend isn’t good for the franchise.
It seems people don’t like Sonic games with no Sally Acorn, no Chao garden, no super modes for the rest of Sonics friends, no fusion between Sonic and Shadow, and you can play as Classic Sonic and/or only play as Sonic. Who knew?
Gonna sound like one of those guys but….
They never should have abandoned the Adventure style games.
High stakes stories that took themselves seriously.
Some game franchises evolve overtime to avoid the gameplay getting stale, but Adventure by design has multiple gameplay styles every game and always introduced new ones. There was no reason not just continue to hone-in on better, smoother mechanics.
And Adventure was when they were trying to set Action-Platforming genre standards. Now they just follow trends or throw mud at the wall to see if it sticks.
One embarrassingly bad, forced to market too early game and SEGA scars themselves for eternity. Several bad or bland games don’t seem to even register on their radar.
They need to make Blaze sexy outfit DLC and for Rouge etc, include sexy mini game unlocks and they’re sales will rise.. 🥰
That Comment above isn’t me. Took my name.
Sonic gamers want Shadow now, not Sonic, unfortunately.