SEGA: We Have No Plans to Postpone Sonic Frontiers

Posted By: Shard the Angel

Welp, just remember what happened the last couple of times an unfinished Sonic game went out. Hopefully gamers have wised up.. but who knows, it might be good?

Posted By: Speedway66

I guess we have no choice but to hope that Sonic Frontiers will be as good as Sega claims it is.

Posted By: Metal

I mean what else can they do? Most Sonic games rushed to market are buggy messes, but so far that hasn’t been the criticism I’ve heard about Frontiers. They can’t delay it to redesign the whole thing when it’s this far along. May as well put it out and hope it doesn’t hurt their brand too much. And even if it does, well, that’s par for the course for Sonic

Posted By: Supersonic

Sega really really have not learned there lessons from sonic 06 boom and froces have they

Posted By: Megasis

Meh, their loss. Sega will release the game in an unpolished state, see that it reviews/sells poorly, and then fail to understand that it’s because they pushed out a rushed product. No surprises there. Typical Sega nonsense.

What bothers me most about this Frontiers announcement though is that the tone of Sega’s comments makes it sound like they are almost treating Frontiers like a movie adaptation game where the goal is to push out something of questionable quality as soon as they can in order to cash in on the movie hype. This is a really bad shift in strategy because games designed as companions to movies are usually the most soulless forms of shovelware imaginable. It is already bad enough that Sega has a history of rushing Sonic games to market, but shifting the focus to putting minimal time/effort into Sonic games in order to squeeze extra “merchandising” income out of their movie releases means that we’re probably going to see the quality of Sonic’s so-called AAA games reach unprecedented lows. (And now that I just described this scenario, I guess that’s probably what we already got a taste of with the Sonic Boom game adaptation of the cartoon franchise.) Got a bad feeling about all of this.

Posted By: AManFromDeclan

So in other words, Sonic Boom is primarily a millennial cartoon, and not just a giant new brand SEGA tried to push on westerners, thinking that’s all they’re worth, as it tried to be everything that the Adventure series never stood for (and a middle finger towards that).

You know, Digimon existed for a long time, and no one what exactly the franchise is supposed to be (not even Wikipedia). We can can describe the creatures themselves, but that’s about it.

As for Boom, it always struck me as a different interpretation of the franchise in the form of a side-series (while the current one remained dormant after Lost World for four years).