Comments like this make me interested to see if Sonic 4 can actually outsell the hated 3D Sonics (even as a joke, this has a kernel of truth to it).

bad Galaki! for not posting the whole article.. bad Galaki!

and yes.. I bought it...

As a downloadable title? No way in hell.

The all mighty has spoken now obey!!

The irony here being that this fluffy party game is rated higher than it's serious HD counterpart by a considerable distance...

That's what i'm feeling too. If there were a more accurate way to track the sales of these things (hard enough for the downloadable titles on the individual services, more impossible as a multiplat), i would formulate a bet about this game and the sales of either Secret Rings or Unleashed (no way Sonic 4 is getting up to M&S. Hell, the original Genesis games never got up this high)

If this has not a second round with legal steps from Ninty / SEGA... kotaku officially calls for boycott here. Thought that behaviour of that kind is unlawful.

Although I agree that M&S at the Olympic Games is somehow unneccessary in my point of view. But concerning SEGA games on PS3 I can't complain. Luv the Yakuza franchise and would love to see the Shenmue franchise at Sonys behemot.

I'm thinking about main series titles, such as Sonic Unleashed or Sonic &tSR. Which is fairer because they don't have "Mario" in the title. The market for downloadable game is still tiny compared to retail games, especially when you're talking about the more mainstream audience a 2D Sonic title would be aiming for.

If they made a "New Sonic the Hedgehog", ie. a full retail game treated as an AAA project, maybe with simultaneous multiplayer, then it could sell bigger than M&S, possibly.

What? Don't everyone just look at pic and then read first paragraph?

That's the internet standards unless the pic below the first paragraph involved boobs.

Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games are brilliant fun games, they use Wii motion controls very well. I really dont know why so many people hate this game.