Sonic Frontiers Has Sold Over 2.5 Million Copies Worldwide

sonic sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

Great! Still think NL ought to go back with a bit fairer of a review but whatever I guess. I've had so much fun with the game so far, and free new playable characters?! Heck yea man

Hope the Genshin fan on Twitter that was mocking Sonic fans for thinking they could beat it for TGAs Player's Choice when their game "only sold 50k copies" is doing okay right now

Brilliant news as that means more of this new style. Easily the best 3D Sonic in a very long time and one of my highlights this year.

Sonic Team's hard work had finally paid off and they did not need the fans to do it for them this time. They definitely deserve that 2.5 million units earning.

I’m about twenty hours in, and other than my extreme hatred for the plethora of forced side scrolling perspective shifts scattered all over the goddamn place on Chaos Island and the rather lackluster Portal stages, everything else is very above average.

Solid 7.5 from me, and this is coming from someone who almost exclusively plays only the 2D Sonic games (SA1&2 get preferential treatment over the rest of the 3D Sonic games because of legacy and me being an idiot kid when I played them and loved them originally).

I'm so proud of my boy

Yes!! Best Sonic game for me. Changed my top Sonic 3d games.

1. Sonic Frontiers
2. Generations
3. SA and SA2
5. Sonic Colours
6. Sonic Unleashed
7. Sonic Heroes
8. Sonic 3D Blast
9. Shadow the Hedgehog

I’m so happy, I’m so happy they actually care, that they wanted to make sonic great again! I hope sonic has a brighter future ahead of him, god speed!

Is less than 3m good sales? I'm used to see bigger number with nintendo 1st party that is don't know anymore

By Sonic standards, these are the best figures in many years.

In one month, it’s en route to be the best selling 3D title. It beat most 2D games and most spin-offs. It has a real shot at beating most of the original Mega Drive games (minus port sales).

Great-it deserves some more attention! I’ve been really enjoying it lately!

Well deserved. Between this, the second movie and the hopefully good Prime show coming in two days, this year was truly a blast for Sonic.

@_fatto_katto_ : Even 1 million, by most standards, is a rousing success except perhaps for the AAA big budget blockbusters. Most games won't sell a million copies let alone three.

Have it on Xbox, one of the best 3d Sonic games, really fun, good music, cool boss battles. Good sales means more Sonic like Frontiers so im happy.

I will be picking this up for the Series X, when it drops in price a little.

Nice! Love the game. The music is sublime. Really looking forward to the free extra stuff too!

@_fatto_katto_ Put it this way, the last Sonic game to sell this well was Sonic Generations which sold 3.8 million in it's LIFETIME over 11 years (3 million on consoles/3DS and 800,000 on Steam) For Sonic Frontiers to sell 2.5 million in only a month is amazing and in Japan it's the biggest selling game since Sonic Heroes in 2003. This is a massive comeback for Sonic.

Maybe i should give this one a chance then. I've heard good things but I've also heard the open world is lifeless and it can get repetitive. I'm still on the fence. Definitely not sure i wanna rush out and blow 60 dollars on it.

@_fatto_katto_ "Is less than 3m good sales?"
The game has only been out for a little over a month, so I'd say 2.5 million is pretty decent sales. That's already higher than the total sales of Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast.

I just wish it performed better on switch. Go on botw after playing sonic frontiers and you'll know what I mean

So, the only one holding Sonic back was ironically Yuji Naka…

@PikaPhantom I was going to make a comment making fun of the whole Genshin Impact vs Sonic community and the ridiculous Game Awards thing, but here the Sonic community is...just doing the work for me. It was a "Player's Choice" award. And it went to Genshin Impact over Sonic Frontiers. That's pretty embarrassing, but hilarious nonetheless. Then to see Sonic fans bring it up again and again is like a self own over and over. That's just the Sonic community I guess.

@Truegamer79 You really shouldn't. It's like an unreal landscape asset flip with Boost Sonic rails, bumpers, and platforms randomly placed around the environment. It feels awful to control, and the camera has not learned anything from over 20 years of 3D platformers.

Long time Sonic fan, I really hope they don't continue in the direction of Frontiers. Really hated it and I feel betrayed as a core fan. Hoping we see a trend of more 3D fan games and maybe we get another Mania situation.

It's worth pointing out that by comparison, Sonic Mania sold 1 million copies after 8 months.

The last time we got sales numbers for a 3D Sonic was Lost World and Boom, both of which sold less than a million after 6 months (including 3DS numbers, which really shouldn't count since they're different games). They didn't bother telling us how much Forces sold; I imagine it did a lot better than those two, but they probably wanted to focus more on Mania's success more.

@LikelySatan Both sides are kind of ridiculous in many ways, really. I like what I've played of Frontiers so far, but it's definitely a bit of a messy experience - it's just nice having really good controls for Sonic in 3D, which not even Generations really delivered on (serviceable but not nearly as precise), and good movement does a lot for a game. I only voted for the game because I was underwhelmed by the rest of the lineup (I would've thrown my weight behind Kirby and the Forgotten Land, but it wasn't even in Round 1). I'm still shocked that the other games in Player's Choice didn't do as well, though. Elden Ring only got around 6% of the vote, despite all the praise I heard for it and the fact it took home GOTY over God of War: Ragnarok. Botting could have distorted the true percent, but the fact that even Stray surpassed it was surprising to me, to say the least.

Skip the DLC and go all out on sonic frontiers 2.
NL: sticking with that 4/10? 🫠

2022 really is The Year of the Hedgehog.

For Sega team they need a win something its been bad for Sonic for a long time this is good recover after the history of bad sonic games I don't like the game personally its not for me its too repetitive. But more power to you if you like it.

@PikaPhantom
Didn't the Sonic fans started the fight?

I really think this should get scored again by a few other people at NL. I’m not usually a Sonic fanboy (despite what my profile picture suggests) but in this case he was treated unfairly with that 4/10.