They'll just make a 2.5D game. The gameplay of the good games, combined with the graphics of the newer suckass games. Everybody win.
I find this easy to believe. I think SEGA is responding to the reaction of how upset the consumers got when they realized that the final product wasn't more like the Sonic 2.5D demo they saw first.
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"That's how much fuck fish." -John Laroche
But that has been the reaction to 99% of Sonic games over the past decade, and nothing has changed. To my eyes I see it cheaper to make a shit game in one year and make mediocre sales, than it is to take five or six years to make a great game and sell only reasonably better.
They pump out a new Sonic game every year, make budget, and start again. If they announced this new game to be released in 2012 I would maybe be getting my hopes up, it would prove they are in it for the long(ish) haul. A decent next-gen Sonic game is also one of the signs of the Apocalypse, and project needlemouse could coincide with the Mayan prediction for the end of the world.
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