Sonic turns 25 this year, but Sega has thus far failed to make a big deal out of it. Sure, we've got the (much delayed) Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice to look forward to on 3DS, but what fans really want is a brand-new game which properly celebrates Sonic's quarter century (lest we forget, Fire & Ice was supposed to be out last year).
It looks like our prayers have been answered. According to the official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account, it would seem that a new game is indeed in the works. The following image has been tweeted which - in typical Sonic fashion - has a little fun with fan expectation:
That's as close to an official confirmation as we're likely to get at this stage - presumably Sega will show something off at this year's E3. But what system will Sonic's next big adventure arrive on? With the Wii U all but dead in the eyes of publishers and the 3DS slowly but surely coming to the end of its lifespan, could we see the Blue Blur move away from Nintendo formats and cross over to the PS4 and Xbox One? Or perhaps Sonic will be dashing to the NX? Let us know your thoughts by posting a comment.
[source twitter.com]
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There's always a Sonic game in the works. The problem is they're usually not very good anymore. The chances of it being on Wii U are very slim. E3 seems like the place an announcement will be made.
Sega and Nintendo had a deal to release 3 Sonic games exclusively on the Wii U and 3DS but that was 3 years ago. I doubt we'll get anything.
Gotta admit, if the new game will have at least half of the effort they put for these tweets than it's gonna be awesome.
Lest we forget, they'll be having a 25th anniversary event in San Diego on July 22nd, which will apparently have an announcement as well.
The tweets from the Sonic account are becoming more awesome as the time goes by. I'm intrigued.
And I'm also laughing really hard.
Wait, did Sega just reference Harry Potter?
I agree with the first picture, Sega should retire Sonic for a while. Let him rest Sega, he's tired now. If anything give us new games with Ristar, Vectorman, Skies of Arcadia, and Streets of Rage and yes they had birthday too which you never celebrate.
if it's good, i'll be sure to get it.
#SonicAdventure3plz!
Lets hope their game development matches their memeing.
Love the tweet. I'm eager to see what the new game will be all about. Putting Boom aside, Sonic has been good lately.
Sega don't flog a dead horse they just flog a dead hedgehog.
You know....if SEGA were to port the DS Sonic games as enhanced remakes, I wouldn't mind. After all, I haven't still to this day gotten my hands on Rush Adventure.
Sonic Maker hopefully
Please be good, please be good
@Socar They already have the Advance titles on the Wii U VC in Japan. They'll probably do that for the DS ones...
Considering Sonic Team have not been up to much since Lost World (Or were the Mobile titles their doing?), it be interesting to see what they're cooking up. Just hope they announce it next month for the actual anniversary, otherwise all fans have to celebrate is the Wii U Version of Mario and Sonic 2016....
@retro_player_22 a remake sky's of Acadia 3D and HD.
@MysteryAozz that is great too.
Just as there are new Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon games always in the works from Nintendo, I can't imagine Sega NOT working on a new Sonic.
@retro_player_22
Or maybe Sonic should retire Sega?
@MysteryAozz I've been dreaming of a Sonic Adventure 3 for a long time.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Sonic must be the one videogame character who's had the most second chances in history.
He's worth it in my opinion, maybe NintendoLife should do a poll on this.
@Alessandro_P their tweets are better than their games tbh lol
Why would people honestly think that the Sonic Twitter account would need to read a guide for memeing? They've already proven that they're the masters! PS Please be good.
Please god no
It's not like Sega's gonna just team up with Archie Comics and Platinum Games, and make a game BASED on the ARchie Comics series, complete with Playable Princess Sally, because Sally alone can guarantee millions in sales, and then SEGA can just ditch the old ideas, make Sonic and Sally romances canon, and speed up the eventual crash in the Video game industry!
That second panel is dirty!
I swear the teased Twitter image is the cutest act of counter-trolling I've ever seen.
If you want to tease, Game Freak, take note.
This is hardly shocking. What would be shocking is if it wasn't garbage.
@Bsham Yuurrrch, I hope not. A hedgehog got caught up in my football net one summer. By the time I noticed it was already dead, and I wasn't about to go cutting a hole in my net, so the body stayed there, rotting in the summer sun. Every time the net bulged the body of the dead hedgehog would leap up into air, as if in celebration at my mesmeric finishing. Stank the place out though...
wii u maybe not, would like to see something retro-styled on 3ds to celebrate 25 years.
@gcunit. I can relate to that story. One time I went on vacation and when I came back there was a dead hedgehog tangled in my badminton net (which had been left in a pile on the ground). Sad day.
Come to think of it... That's how I view the state of Sonic these days. A once lively hedgehog now dead, stinky, and tangled in an inescapable mess.
If it's on NX, it won't be launching in 2016. That means either it's been delayed because of the NX, it's a Wii U release that gets ported to NX, or it's a PS4/Xbox One release.
I hear it's been in development for many years now, so hopefully it's pretty good.
rAcINg
Sigh, I'll go get the shovel...
@SLIGEACH_EIRE I really don't get this comment. The last bad sonic game was Boom and before that was Black Knight and 06. Honestly, this whole "every Sonic game now is bad" just seems dumb and narrow sighted at this point
Yay! Super excited! Hoping it stays on a Nintendo platform, whether the NX, Wii U, 3DS, or a combination between them.
Nice, here's hoping for Adventure 3!
Hopefully this new game won't suck, but that might be asking to much. :/
@Yorumi I haven't played many Sonic games, but Freedom Planet doesn't feel like a Sonic game. Sure, it takes inspiration from Sonic, but it's still something quite different.
@andrew20 What I wouldn't give for a port of Skies of Arcadia on the 3DS or Wii U. When the Wii U was yet to be a commercial failure, I expected after getting Genesis emulation on the Wii we'd get Dreamcast emulation this time around and it'd happen that way...... alas.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE I'm not personally attacking you, but you bring up a pretty general consensus that I don't think is entirely fair. I think Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Colors, and Sonic Generations were all wonderful titles and unlike Sonic Heroes, Sonic '06, and Sonic Lost World, they had the development time they needed to truly polish such games. With Sonic Boom having been developed by external companies, I'm inclined to believe that the next true Sonic game has been in development for a long time and will be good as a result.
@Yorumi I'm sorry to hear you feel this way. Did you not enjoy Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Colors, or Sonic Generations? I personally thought they were great games.
@the101 I agree Sonic Colours was very good. I haven't played Generations so I can't comment on that. But for every good game there's at least 1 shall we say mediocre Sonic games and I'm being generous.
Coming from someone who isn't a follower of Sonic's most recent titles - I'd be keen to play a retro stylised game, perhaps with hand-drawn graphics. Maybe with a similar look to the classic artstyle shown in the Twitter post. ^_^
That said, it's much needed for there to be a title which encompasses the frantic, cartoon-like charm the series has been known for. Sonic Colours was almost that. :3
Really wouldn't mind a new one in vein of Sonic Unleashed or Generations. Lost World had decent gameplay, but it just didn't click like the high-speed antics of Unleashed.
@Yorumi fair enough, and I certainly understand your concerns. Given the amount of time Sonic Team has potentially been developing this title, I'd like to think I'm cautiously optimistic.
Does anybody else want adventure 2 like controls but not all the side characters? Or atleast not big the cat and knuckles broken radar.
With Sonic, less is more. I'd prefer another Sonic 4 approach without all the chuffa (lighting torch puzzles and physics that feel off) Focus on making the gameplay fun, and a game deserving of celebration will follow.
Can't wait! I feel as though Sega will either give into fan demand and release a "true" Adventure 3, or try something completely different that's hopefully just as awesome.
It definitely can't be worse than all that Sonic Boom junk. What a waste of a new Sonic show/side-series...
Yay, another steaming pile of crap which will sell well anyway because it features Sonic's name and likeness! Pass.
Sega could make a sonic shaped turd and put it in a box and sell it and Sonic fans would still buy it.
Was it not just natural to assume new year, new Sonic game?
Hope it goes better than the 15th anniversary (which people don't seem to remember that in addition to Sonic '06, on the same day they gave us Sonic Genesis, the terrible GBA port of the original).
@Yorumi @CreamyDream
(1) Lost World has excellent level design.
(2) Sonic Adventure games are not good according to today's standard anymore.
(3) Freedom Planet is NOT a sonic game. It is a mix of Rocket Knight Adventure with speed.
Sega is asking Madeon how much it will cost to use his music for a new sonic game trailer via Twitter
I hope it will be a buggy mess of a game like sonic boom so I can have a laugh at it't expense
If they quit messing up the games, Sonic's fine.
I agree with you completely.
The 101
If everyone judges every game by it's worst one then where would we all be right now?
I hope they come out with a sonic adventure 3
(So bad, so so bad.)
Sonic the hedgehog has had quite a few bad games, but sonic still has had a lot of good games so if you didn't like sonic the hedgehog why do you even post here?
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