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Is there even a point to still be talking about this as it's still, again, speculation? :v:

 

What about Sonic Mach 1

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaIl-EyhRGg

I've seen people mention the source of this before but for the most part it's still unknown, so I thought I'd do a bit of digging today to try and get the message out

 

Man, oh man. It's been found. I've been wondering this for ages.

 

Finding your comment earlier was what lead me to look into it :v:

 

So Takashi Iizuka "The Bazooka" has confirmed that Sonic Mach 2 does indeed exist but quite surprisingly is nothing to do with Sonic Team. This has me worried now. Sega just out sourced their last Sonic game with Boom and look at the catastrophe that was. Anything less than a first rate developer could be another disaster. As for the theory of Mach 2 being a small spin off title as TimmiT said on NeoGAF that seems highly unlikely if the game has dedicated voice acting. It's going to at least be a Sonic Colours style mid range game if not their main title for this year. And again not made by Sonic Team. So I guess the question now is who's developing Mach 2? And what are Sonic Team up to then?

As an educated guess I'd say we're looking at Sonic Mach 2 this year by this unknown developer and then Sonic Team's game will be for the anniversary next year. Thoughts? It'd be awesome if the developer was someone amazing like Yuji Naka's Prope or even Nintendo EAD but both of those are dreamlike fantasy scenarios. One interesting bit of information is Sony were rumoured to be interested in getting Sonic exclusively a while back (the source was a verified insider on NeoGAF) which does carry some weight what with the Sony produced Sonic movie in the pipeline. Could Mach 2 be in development by one of Sony's studios?

Just want the next Sonic game to actually be decent and we need a good developer for that. Hope Sega have chosen wisely this time.

 

^ Where does "The Bazooka" nick name come from?

I wonder if Mach 2 is just a mobile game. Wasn't there hints that a Sonic Boom free to play title was being worked on?

 

Probably because it just rhymes with "Bazooka".

This doesn't sound like a main Sonic title, it sounds like a spin-off. Sonic's had enough of those recently but I can't see SEGA stopping now. It could even be a Wii U exclusive. It wouldn't surprise me if the Wii U is skipped over when the next main series game comes out. The Wii missed Sonic 2006 and Sonic Generations, and had a watered down port of Unleashed. It did get Colours though, and the Wii U had Lost World, both of which are decent titles.

Given that it's the anniversary next year, we'll surely see a Sonic Team game soon.

 

I know it rhymes, but I thought there might be something more to it!


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What's interesting is that we've had Boom last year and now this new title this year. This means by 2016, Sonic Team will have gone 3 years without making a main Sonic game. Hopefully, that means their next game will have had an extended amount of development time. We don't know exactly how long Sonic games are normally in development, but it seems they only get 1 to 2 years (at least for the actual production side, the pre-production work presumably starts earlier).

 

IIRC this is also being developed by the Generations team, which gives it nearly 5 years of development time.
I'll be dumbfounded if this game is awful.

 

Either way I hope the game is either really good or really bad. At least really bad I can enjoy ironically or through mocking it.

 

I had the same rationale when they first announced Sonic Lost World. I was very wrong.

Hoping this isn't the case this time.

 

Does anyone remember where that rumor about SA2 having a submarine scenario came from? Tamaki from Unseen 64 is talking with Iizuka about this right know and is asking about this. I cant remember if it was at a amagazine or something, can anyone help?

 

I've never even heard something like that was even a rumor. Probably goes far back before I stumbled upon this franchise ('07). :v:

 

Never heard about that, did it turn out to be true?

 

I've heard of that rumour, but only that: a rumour.

 

Iizuka was asked about this rumour at the Summer of Sonic 2012 and he said he didn't know anything about. I think the interview is still on YouTube.

David the Lurker provided a good summary of the source in this link. Basically, it came from the Official US Dreamcast magazine.

 

Found these at a car boot sale this morning. I vaguely remembered owning one of these as a kid but could never find any info on what it was. Now I have one I looked up the copyrighted company on the back and found it is from a collection of small rubber figures called P.E.T (Pocketsize Extra Tiny) Aliens, and this particular figure is called 'Cynic'.

http://minifigures.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/name-of-toy-line-p.html


"Arrived in London 1994 during the video game boom. Decided to take a career as plumber hedgehog superstar for earthlings largest corporation Nintega. This alien has attitude!"

 

Who spotted Sonic on Last Week Tonight last night? Raise your hands

 

https://archive.is/TCLAq
https://archive.is/coFMU
https://archive.is/XVTqP
The fuck? Someone (probably at SEGA) hacked the official Sonic The Hedgehog twitter. I can tell because these replies are VERY UNUSUAL.