2022 was, among many things, also the year of Sonic: the blue hedgehog returns to whiz with the 2.9 million copies of Sonic Frontiers, which have allowed us to have great confidence (on the part of the development team, but also by investors) on the future of the saga and on the project itself .
As can be read from an extract of the recent Q&A held between SEGA and the shareholders, in fact, there was talk of the great performance recorded by Sonic Frontiers. The title, in addition to the high sales numbers, had an important response from the public.
In response to a question about the evaluation of the quality of the project (compared to the low score on Metacritic), the top management of SEGA replied by declaring the following: “It’s true that the Metacritic score was slightly lower than we expected, but the user score is really high“.
“With This“, again declares SEGA“we believe we have found a title that is widely accepted by a great many people around the world. It is safe to think that we will be able to increase the sales of Sonic Frontiers through prices, discounts and DLC“. They still go on to report that “We are moving forward with this title based on a strategic sales plan. We ran intensive promotions around the November release and as recently announced we have managed to achieve good results so far.”.
In the face of the great success of Sonic Frontiers, will the company engage in other large-scale projects? As stated by SEGA, “We expect i development costs of new titles will increase further in the future. We will strive to ensure solid quality in the development of the most important titles of our existing franchises. However, development costs will increase due to the impact of the external environment and we expect development costs to increase accordingly for upcoming titles.”.
No further information on possible future projects in the pipeline emerged from the Q&A. Therefore, questions still remain open about Sonic’s possible return to 2D, despite Kishimoto’s words on the matter being promising on the return of the blue hedgehog to two dimensions.
