Sonic Runners announced for mobile! First teaser image shows really cool cell shaded art direction.

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Mystro-Sama on 30 December 2014

Why do I get the feeling that this is going to be better than Sonic Boom?

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Xxain on 30 December 2014

Chazore said:
The main question is: will Sonic team be working on an actual console game for 2015?, sure there's always 2016 but I'm hoping it doesn't end up anywhere near like Boom did, speaking of misplaced teams I still remember why TF: Rise of the Dark spark sucked, it was mainly because Activision split HM studios from the franchise to work on a last gen COD port while they brought in a hardly known dev team to work on it, most of the game contained copy+pasted assets and sounds along with general gameplay with little new added and it tanked, I wasn't going anywhere near that game after hearing and eeeing what happened with it, I really loved the first two games but it just shows that replacing the team that once made something good with a franchise with some devs that are next to nothing really doesn't bode well.

It happaned with Sonic, Transformers and probably others out there too, it can easily happen again.

...... I just went through the opening question. Scroll up alittle

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Xxain on 30 December 2014

Mystro-Sama said:
Why do I get the feeling that this is going to be better than Sonic Boom?

Because the worst Sonic game is better than Boom?

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Smear-Gel on 30 December 2014

Didn't you hear? Mobile games are never good and can never be. Believe me, because gamers usually have non biased opinions on things.

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AZWification on 30 December 2014

Mystro-Sama said:
Why do I get the feeling that this is going to be better than Sonic Boom?

Because Sonic Boom is just that damn bad?

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Euphoria14 on 30 December 2014

Xxain said:

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Xxain said:

1. Dont be to butt hurt about the butt hurt part. I assumed you were being sarcastic so I playing on your sarcasm.Was not knocking you or anything.

2. There is a very clean cut negativity from gamers on developers and mobile. SEGA and many other Japanese developers are not "moving" to mobile, just leveraging it as a imported part of their release portfolio. Its very similar to when PC gamers got all defensive when known exclusive PC developers started to except console as a viable source of income. Just because SEGA has a mobile game coming does not mean they have turned their backs on consoles, there will be another and many more console Sonic game. Only thing that keeps them relevant over here. Not the first time Sonic has been on mobile anyways.. Only thing diffrent here is Sonic team themselves are behind it.

It you really did look at this from a business it should have made sense instantly. You know Chain Chronicle and Sonic Dash are regularly mentioned as money makers on SEGA's financial reports... Sonic CD was a big hit too...

Chain Chronicles is associated with SEGA? Had no idea.

I am a long time player of Brave Frontier, which is made by Alim, who is part owned by Gumi, who also made Chain Chronicles. Yes, the game makes good money, it is in the Top 40 in terms of overall gross income on the Appstore and GooglePlay last time I checked, which was about a week or two ago.

Anyways, can't wait for their colab with SquareEnix with Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius.

Chain Chronicles is developed by SEGA but localized by Gumi, who will continue to localize SEGA mobile specific content. SEGA and Gumi have a partnership. Mobile games are really jumping in quality

That Gumi IPO will be coming sooner than I thought then. They seem to collab with everyone, although I did not know their SEGA colab went further then Hatsune Miku based units in Brave Frontier.

Thanks for the info.