Sonic is dead, but not to the extent that we use the word. All of his recent games sell over 1M copies, and that's considered a success. People are still buying the games. Just because hardcoregamer92 isn't buying Sonic, that doesn't mean others are not. Sonic is very resilient and that may be due to his design and ever-changing game play mechanics. Although the mechanics suck, you can't say Sonic hasn't tried something different.