@Onyxmeth: You missed one thing that Sega is after with M&S, which is to raise the value of Sonic. On Megadrive, Sonic was a huge hit, but after going 3D, the games have apparently more or less sucked.
Now, with M&S, Sega wants to make people, familiar with Mario, familiar to other Sonic games.
And to add to that, if Sega decides to publish games "that sell hardware" (ie. like they'd be first party), they have a winning formula. The common mentality among the publishers seems to be that they don't want even accidentally make games that drive hardware sales and the first party would benefit from it.
@Jammy: Actually it's most propably because Wii likely has the biggest userbase of gamers from the 4th generation, to who Sonic already is a familiar character and who are familiar with Segas other games from the era.
I was going to say that F-Zero GX was very good, but then again, it released in 2003. Does that count?
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
