Sega and good games don't belong in the same sentence anymore.

I hope you are joking, SEGA still make plenty of good games. Sonic however just isnt and never has been 1 of them.

That's a bit of a stretch. Sonic was a big reason the Genesis went from 4% to 40%+ of the US market share in the early 90's.

Sonic also was the showing ground for Yuji Naka's new discovery of how to make sprites move smoothly on a curve. It had a huge impact on gaming on top of its then mindblowing success. Not to mention his influence in pop culture.

SEGA just needs to get back to their roots like Yuji Naka is doing with Rodea.

Eh, the problem with Sonic is that Sega keeps changing the (perpetually crappy) formula. Sonic Boom is different than Lost World which is different than Black Knight which is different than Colors which is different than Generations and Unleashed which is different than 06 and so on. It seems like they are trying to find a gameplay style that appeals to every fan, but they epically fail at that goal every. single. time. Fans wanted Sonic Adventure 3, and out of that goal we got Sonic 06. Fans wanted Sonic to go back to 2D, and we got Sonic 4. It seems like Sega wanted to start completely fresh with Sonic Boom with a new story canon, new enemies, and the cartoon. We all see how that turned out...

If Sega wants to keep Sonic alive then they absolutely need to listen to fans this time around, and I mean more than just scaling back on characters. They also need to develop  refine one of the many existing Sonic formulas and make a game that people want to play. At this point it's do or die for Sonic. He already isn't as recognizable amongst the mainstream anymore (Boom was probably supposed to change that). We're not far from a point where the diehard old time Sega fanboys who actually finished Sonic 06 won't care anymore. 

The real sites will save it. Ign, gamespot, Eurogamer, etc

Advertising is a powerful thing.

I mean I love Sonic as an IP, great characters, setting, music etc. but the gameplay has always been fairly garbage and thats what counts the most for a platformer.

Woah...that's a terrible idea. I'd say that Sonic has the worst, most broken fanbase for any video game. Trying to please all fans or listening to even a third of the fanbase will lead to the game being hated by most everyone, which is evident in the games now. Lost World is split between being considered great and awful. Every Sonic game that is them listening to the fans ends up being hated by the fans.

"Go back to the roots!"

*Sonic 4*

"Just a rehash!"

"Forget all the friends!"

*Sonic Boom*

"Why are they changing the original people slightly???"