With the recent Sonic games all gone a bit pear-shaped in full 3D, Sonic is facing the same decline that Tomb Raider did before Crystal Dynamics rode in.
Kotaku quizzed SEGA’s Akinori Nishiyama, producer on upcoming Sonic Unleashed, and asked if Sonic could embrace his 2D past in our HD present sometime in the A.D. future?
”There’s always the possibility. Whether it would be viable remains to be seen, but having a new game - or even a remake of the GBA games, which we now can’t use (thanks to the DSi) - would certainly be possible. If we made one, would you buy it?” Optimistic words from Nishiyama but it’s probably just a pipe dream.
”One of our ideas has been that on older consoles, you may have had only 16 colours. One thing we could do is make a game like Mega Man 9; do a new Sonic, but in an old style.”
Capcom has been profiting nicely from bringing blasts from the past back to new HD audiences, and most notably Mega Man 9 is on his way soon. C’mon Sonic you can do it!
Source: Kotaku
