I too find the wii version to be better myself, but back to the topic if this ring true than sega is setting sonic up for failue on the HD consoles. Sonic sales on the HD consoles havnt been that great. Majority of sonic sales come from the wii, which is kind of ironic.

also i would like to add if this is true as well than they would have made sonic for the wii for roughly 2mil and have it make up for the lost of sonic hd, which is very poor business practice on something that wont ever make money back.

 Well according to VGchartz

Sonic Unleashed on Wii has 750000 in sales.

Sonic unleahsed PS3 + 360 has....750000 in sales.

Also consider that Wii version sells for 10 less.

Just something to think about.

The ps360 version will make its money back if it hasn't already. Wii will make a huge profit. All wii owners seem to LOVE the Wii version over everything else.

Isnt that an everybody wins situation?!?

That is funny. Honestly Sega, just make some good Sonic games.

Dude WTF is this bullshit. I like the wii version cause it seem more fun to me.  You are sounding like a troll with that. Also take note wii version sold the same amount ps3 and 360 combined and the wii usually have longer leg.  At this point I'm gonna not argue or get into conversation with trolls.

 No not really. Using a version that sells more, and makes more money as the back-up is stupid from a business perspective. Yuo sink the most money into the projects that make the most money. If they were expecting to just make a complette loss on the PS360 version it would be better to just cut it entirely and make it for where the fanbase actually is. If they don't expect both versions to be profitable on their own it would be stupid to make the one that wouldn't

There are 2 ways sega could have done this.

Invest everything in the Wii version and then port it to ps360 with mixed visuals. Or invest in the ps360 and then downsample the Wii version. They chose the second option. Again, since everyone loves the Wii version better, I don't see why you would mind their approach.

I am happy they chose this route because the people that appreciate the HD gaming would be able to tell rather easily if a game was ported from the wii (last crash bandicoot game for example) and we would have been wondering how good it would have been had it been it been made for HD consoles.

For Wii owners that feel that they were used by Sega...you have Black Knight coming exclusively in a short while and you got a "superior" version of Unleashed. What more do you want... Its not segas fault Wii is cheap to develop for.

 This is not about what I want or aything of the sort. You are either not reading, or completely misunderstanding my point. If the PS360 version of the game was not meant to be profitable on its own then it would be stupid from a business perspective to make it. Bot versions of the game were meant to be profitable. In other words I am once again saying the original insider is spouting complete horse shit. Even if he is telling the truth about his position he would not be privy to this information.

@Gnizmo

Ah I get it.
Yeah, selling 750000 copies in less than 2 months on HD platforms should make it easily profitable. I doubt sega spent 50 million on sonic unleased...even half of that. So quite possibly this whole thread is based on fabricated info.

haha damn I didn't know Sonic Unleashed was out. I must pick it up.