The long-running Sonic the Hedgehog franchise continues to gain popularity and despite 35 years of the blue blur, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka, believes that the series is only halfway to its full potential. The team initially had extremely high goals when it came to SEGA’s 2D mascot back in the day, but with a mixed bag of 3D games the Sonic Team hasn’t had that critically acclaimed breakout hit. However, they will continue to do their best to strive to get there and good luck to them.
“To be honest, we believe that Sonic is still only halfway to reaching its full potential. When we created the first Sonic the Hedgehog, the development team at the time used to say, ‘Let’s aim for Disney.’ When I first joined Sega, I was also told to dream big… things like, ‘Use Sonic to surpass Disney’ and ‘One day, we’ll build a theme park.’
“Thirty-five years have passed, but we haven’t quite gotten there yet. Now that we’ve brought the movie to life, we want to share the appeal of Sonic with even more people who haven’t yet played the Sonic game series.”
They are so delusional…
It’s true. Imagine if they made good video games!
Sonic was far better than Mario in the 90’s, especially for animation, what were they thinking with that awful Mario movie? Ugh.. And then those terrible CDI games. Besides, the chicks are far hotter in the Sonic franchise.. 🤤
Good luck to them, the recent movies were great and for a more mature audience than Mario.
Comparing the hotel Mario cutscenes to the amazing Sonic cd opening, Sonic did top Mario at certain things.
Yes Sonic has honestly like Sonic Mania. Sonic was trying to make it to the top.
And Mario has super Mario Galaxy, super Mario Odyssey, super Mario bros. Wonder, Mario kart 8 and world, super Mario 3d land, super Mario 3d world + Bowser’s fury…it has less stinkers than sonic.
Ok. And?
The truth is, I envy the Mario brand: The quality of the games, the success, the money. everything Mario has, I want it for Sonic.
Yeah, I get it. sonic is a lot less consistant, but sonic is a lot more interesting as a franchise. There aren’t a ton of hidden gems in the mario library, but sonic is full of them like sonic colors on ds, sonic battle, sonic and all stars racing transformed. Like sonic is just a lot more fun than mario in terms of character even though the output is spotty. But the highs of sonic are so high!
You have genuinely terrible taste lmao.
None of those “hidden gems” even come close to reaching Mario’s heights. They’re all mediocre at best and outright garbage at worst.
Mario has far superior and successful 2D, 3D, racing, RPG (multiple), sport (also multiple) series under his belt, and has now trounced Sonic in the box office too.
There’s nothing interesting about Sonic as a character, he’s a relic of the “cool dude” 90s cliché that should’ve died out years ago.
The delusion of you Sonic man-children never ceases to amaze me lmaooo.
I don’t think you know what a hidden gem is. Usually hidden gems aren’t the best games, usually never come close, but they are usually under appreciated and solid games, even if not as good as other games.
Tard
Ignored the imposter.
Dude. Just stop already. Your not me.
Ya accept for the crappy key cards they released. tho I partially blame nintendo for that screw up. luckaly first party games that mostly run ok are full on card. there are some acceptions like cyber punk wich doesent run that great because switch 2 isennt powerful enough but o well.
It will never stop being funny to me how Mario lives rent-free in the heads of Sonic fans lmao.
Like, you obviously know that Mario has come out on top against Sonic pretty much every single time, but are incapable of coping with it. Hence why you come onto a Nintendo news forum calling yourself “Truth Bringer” (which is genuinely one of the most insecure sounding aliases I’ve ever heard lol), desperately trying to convince people Sonic is better on an article that doesn’t even MENTION Mario.
I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever encountered a more immature or sad fanbase than Sonic’s. It’s just depressing at this point.
That’s twitter sonic fans for you, though Tbf a lot of the people doing this stuff are rage baiters who aren’t actually fans of the series. as for the actual article itself what they are saying is that they think sonic is in a good spot right now (which he is there’s no denying that especially compared to how he was in the 2010s) but they think they can do much better which is agreeable, now that sega actually gives a crap about sonic again (due to the movies and frontiers selling well) they got a lot more budget and people back around 2023 and since then the games have been much more consistent I’d say
F-off you disgusting furry.
Bro is acting like Mario doesn’t have multiple fur suits lol
It’s really fascinating how both mascots literally became the exact opposite of each other for good and bad. And one of the things that really sticks out that’s relevant to this article is how Mario has successfully not only himself spun out into multiple genres, but that many of his side characters have their own beloved game series like Yoshi’s Island, Donkey Kong Country and Luigi’s Mansion…and yet outside of Shadow and that one knuckles and tails game many years ago. Sonic has all these goddamn interesting and unique side characters and yet Sonic team never does anything with them that specifically features them in a spin-off game. Like imagine a Knuckles solo game that plays like his treasure hunting and Sonic Adventure but the mechanics are exactly like the way Donkey Kong Bonanza is with his punching and digging. Like there’s so many opportunities that they could have made so many successful side series that would have made them money and the claim and they just never did because to be honest they never recovered from Sonic 2006 ever.
Nah, Sonic reached it’s “full potential” in the late 90’s/early 00’s.
It’s only been downhill since then, and will continue to go even further downhill as time goes on.
Not really no, the main reason why sonic games have been so inconsistent is largely because sega’s parent company didn’t even care about sonic until recently they only bought out sega in 2003 for their pachinko machines since the movies and frontiers however it seems they are actually considering sonic as a moneymaker so they gave sonic team more budget and people around 2023 so the sonic series will likely get better from here after all compared to the 2010s sonic is in a much better situation now culturally and games wise
They won’t listen to me anyway, so I don’t want to sound like a broken record.
Frankly there is only one lens under which I care about Sonic and that’s as a video game series. And fair to say that yeah, there’s a lot of potential left on the table in that regard.
When I was younger, I wasn’t a gamer, I was merely an enjoyer of Sonic games that occasionally branched out to other things. These days, after decades of middling to terrible games, I just struggle to care about Sonic anymore beyond the classic games. Sonic Mania was a highlight in 2017 but completely squandered in the years since.
Frontiers is a game I just don’t get. I’m glad it pleased some people but running around under-designed areas and applying a combat system to Sonic, I’m just not sure what they’re getting at with any of that. If they ever decide to return to being a physics-based platformer in line with the original trilogy and the Adventure games, and they execute it well, then I will certainly return.
I understand that the Sonic franchise wants to be number one but it has top the Mario on something like Sonic Mania and Sonic Frontiers. Still falling behind and wants to catch up with him.
You know what?
I am rooting for them✊️
Same here.
Let Sonic first measure up to even a quarter of Ori in terms of quality and fun—let alone Mario.
It’ll be always funny that they say that about Sonic when the most acclaimed Sonic game after the Dreamcast era was the one they didn’t make. You could say two because Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed was by Sumo Digital.
Sonic Team has yet to make a single acclaimed Sonic game that doesn’t get criticized later on.
Since when did people hate sonic x shadow generations?
Honestly this is not reportable content. Who cares.
MAYBE IF THEY LET SONIC AND SHADOW SLEEP TOGETHER IN THE GAMES AND HAVE SOME ACTUAL STORY WITH CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT MORE PEOPLE WILL LIKE SONIC! WE FANS WANT TO SEE SONIC VULNERABLE WHEN AMY TOUCHES HIM. WE WANT TO SEE TAILS BE SHY AROUND EGGMAN BECAUSE HES ATTRACTED TO HIS INTELLIGENCE! WE FANS WANT TO SEE ROUGE TAKE IT ALL OFF WHEN SHE INTRODUCES HERSELF LIKE A LITTLE BADDIE SHE IS.
Hey leave sonic alone I think he thrives higher than Mario ever could because of Mario being a show off in the 90’s just sayin man
Why do all Sonic fanboys type like mentally retárded pre-schoolers lmao.
Also Sonic is, objectively, not “thriving higher than Mario”. Sales figures and the box office don’t lie.
So cope.