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  • Sonic Frontiers Breaks New Record For 3D Game Sales With 3.5 Million Copies

    That puts it ahead of Sonic Heroes to be the fastest-selling 3D Sonic ever.

    Sonic Frontiers has seemingly become the fastest-selling mainline 3D Sonic the Hedgehog game ever, as SEGA casually announced yesterday that its latest open-zone adventure has sold 3.5 million units. This puts it above the last officially-released sales data for Sonic Heroes (in 2007), which previously held the title with around 3.4 million units.

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    The new milestone means that Sonic Frontiers has sold an additional 300,000 units since the start of April 2023, and puts it on a course to be one of the franchise's best-selling titles. SEGA confirmed that they will be seeking to keep the momentum of the game's sales going by continuing its strategy to develop cross-media products, merchandising and a regular game release cadence.

    The information was revealed on stage during a SEGA/Rovio joint press conference that took place in Helsinki, Finland. The meeting was to formally establish SEGA's acquisition of the Angry Birds mobile studio that took place last month and to give some insight as to what integration and partnership plans are being considered.

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    Things were interesting on that front as well, with a slide and mention that plans were in place to establish cross-media collaborations between a number of SEGA and Rovio IPs. While the company stopped short of outright announcing a Sonic x Angry Birds crossover, you can see from the slide image above that the publisher is undoubtedly looking at ways to further expand fanbases of both brands in similar ways.

    We'll wait to see what happens on that front. For now, it seems like there's enough celebrating to do with Sonic Frontiers' newly-found title as fastest-selling 3D Sonic game! Congratulations SEGA and Sonic Team.

    Via Radical (Twitter)

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    I'm curious about just how far this game is going to go, I think it has the potential to become the best-selling game outside of Sonic 1 and 2 if this momentum keeps up. 300k units in a single month is just ridiculous, and free DLC all but guarantees strong legs for at least the rest of the year.

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    Those are fantastic sales numbers and results for Sonic Frontiers & Sega as well. I enjoyed Sonic Frontiers myself that's a huge milestone for the game Indeed. The soundtrack It just awesome and fits perfectly well for Sonic Frontiers. Plus the free DLC Is very welcoming as well It's just to show as well.

    I hope the sales numbers continues to grow for such a fantastic Sonic game and I am looking forward to the upcoming DLC as well. 

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    I would pay no mind to that unless there is a formal public statement from SEGA Sammy on the matter. Interesting counter-rumour though.

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    15 minutes ago, Dreadknux said:

    I would pay no mind to that unless there is a formal public statement from SEGA Sammy on the matter. Interesting counter-rumour though.

    Okay, if you say so.

    To be honest, I was posting this to share the Rovio stuff more than the Sonic Frontiers stuff. But the sales for Sonic Frontiers is there, nonetheless, so if that is the main focus, that is fine with me.

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    I've seen some people say that Frontiers became the best selling 3D game, but that's not true, Sonic Colors sold 4.0 million. Now I won't doubt that Frontiers will pass Colors, I'm just clearing things up

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    18 minutes ago, DaBigJ said:

    I've seen some people say that Frontiers became the best selling 3D game, but that's not true, Sonic Colors sold 4.0 million. Now I won't doubt that Frontiers will pass Colors, I'm just clearing things up

    Forgive me, but do you mean the original Colors, or the Ultimate version?

    Anyway, I am not doubting you on what you said, but if I may ask, would you happen to have evidence on Colors selling 4.0 million, if it does not hurt to ask?

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    5 minutes ago, ShinyGems said:

    Forgive me, but do you mean the original Colors, or the Ultimate version?

    Anyway, I am not doubting you on what you said, but if I may ask, would you happen to have evidence on Colors selling 4.0 million, if it does not hurt to ask?

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    And https://www.vgchartz.com/game/226081/sonic-the-hedgehog/#:~:text=Sonic Colors - 4.0 million,Sonic Lost World - 710%2C000

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    Actually thinking about it, they could've combined sales of the OG and Ultimate, which if they did then please disregard what I said

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    9 hours ago, ShinyGems said:

    Bad news, there has been a misunderstanding.

     

    Hopefully SEGA do come out and make a statement on the most recent sales, and they're either in line with or above the 3.5 million benchmark, but until then yeah, it's better to fall back to the official statements and corroboration rather than the more uncertain statements stated elsewhere. 300k in one month is a sizable jump compared to it's previous month-on-month sales results, so it's understandable everyone more concerned with the accuracy of this is uncertain/waiting for an official statement.

    If the next sales reports are in line with this, and have sales beyond 3.5M+, that will definitely be big for this game's legs.

    5 hours ago, ShinyGems said:

    Okay, thanks.

    Still, while I still don't doubt you, I do have to ask; is VG Chartz reliable? By that, I mean it was not know to be reliable by the time Colors came out. Has that changed now?

    Iizuka made the statement for an interview during the lead-up to Colors Ultimate's release. VGChartz is very unreliable, but in this case they're just quoting his comment from that interview.

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    9 hours ago, The Deleter said:

    Iizuka made the statement for an interview during the lead-up to Colors Ultimate's release. VGChartz is very unreliable, but in this case they're just quoting his comment from that interview.

    Wait the original 2 versions of Sonic Colors sold that much? Even with them being exclusive? That's a lot of copies, no wonder SEGA remastered it to new consoles.

    Although Frontiers will most likely surpass that sometimes this year.

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