Probably because Sonic 06 enters the category of 'so bad it's good', while this game doesn't have that charm.

OH, SANIC IS BACK AT IT AGAIN! Honestly, Sonic was my freaking childhood, SEGA, please end his suffering. This isn't even funny anymore, a this point you're just dissecting his corpse and selling its putrid organs to brainless zombies that have the image of Sanic brainwashed into the cores of their brains. Plz stahp.

Timeline:

- Sega hits the bottom of the well with Sonic 06
- Things start improving: people hate the Werehog in Unleashed, but the daytime stages are great fun
- Sonic 4 is all sorts of bland
- Sonic Colors comes out and breaks the so-called "Sonic Cycle"
- Generations is a love letter to the fans. Best Sonic game in YEARS.
- Lost World has mixed feelings, but hey - it's still not a "bad" game per say. It's colorful, has nice aesthetics and some people love it
- Sega FUCKS IT UP AGAIN WITH SONIC BOOM


How the fuck do you GO BACK to the bottom of the well after (apparently) rising from it...?

Actually, the DS is a handheld not a console, and not being games that Sega had to make because of a contract with Nintendo, they doesn't count in my theory... Sonic Advance series on GBA was also pretty good anyway.

Anyway okay, they're not "terrible", but sure most (not all) of them were not that awesome, they were games that felt (at least to me) designed to be just "enjoyable", with the exception of Colors.

it's not a coincidence that the only game that really showed up the potential of a good Sonic game in modern days is Generations (PS3/360) in my opinion, and I honestly think that Sonic 2006 for PS3/360, even if it was unfinished, frustrating and sometimes even embarrassing, was way more ambicious that most of the exclusive Sonic games released for Wii and Wii U.... and Sonic Unleashed is pretty much the main game that gave us a clear vision of how "Modern Sonic" levels should look like (even if Night levels were really boring), and that one was available for all consoles.

I think just that Sega care a lot more about releasing good multiplatform games instead of making good exclusives for Nintendo, that's it.

No, it's almost mediorce. Review scores are not statisical averages.

NNintendo, greatness awaits you as third party publisher.

Sonic 06 was actually THAT bad.

GOAT

Well Im not getting this game after all. It just seems to be unfinished in every way. This is one of the games that could have stayed japan only instead of good Sega games...

Sega just rushed, due to Super Smash Bros Wii U release time...

I don't know why Sega was worry about the sale, should've delayed further or early 2015.

Yep.