Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Delay blamed on iPhone Version

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http://www.gamerzines.com/xbox-360/news/sonic-4-delay-iphone.html

"It didn't really work the way the team imagined"

Written by Thomas Worthington, 13 September 2010

Sega has revealed that it delayed the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 on all platforms due to unfinished development of the iPhone version.

The game was originally due to hit Playstation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, WiiWare and iPhone this summer however Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka said the team weren't happy with the version releasing on Apple's popular smartphone.

"The team wanted the game to work really well on the iPhone with the same stages and the same kind of mechanics as the console versions, but it didn't really work the way the team imagined," said Iizuka, "What they did was they kept the iPhone version closer to the original and they went back to the console version and changed some stages to be better playable on console. That's the reason behind the delay and the extension in the development schedule."

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 is now expected to release on most downloadable platforms later this year.

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lol.... I'm so buying the iphone version.. it even has exclusive stages...