Sonic the Hedgehog 4 [PSN, XBL, WWare]

[Kron]

The Sonic games have done best on Wii

[Ouenben]

I assume he means sales wise which i believe is true of the 3 current gen consoles however I believe this title is meant to be in HD so it may not see a Wii outing.

[The Mole]

Well looking at Sonic Unleashed that was released on 4 platforms

Wii version sold 1.4 million
Xbox 360 version 500,000
PS3 version 500,000
PS2 version 600,000

When you look at games like the Sonic and the Secret Ring which sold well over 2 million it would be a logical assumption that they will release the game on Wii.

[abigsmurf]

http://www.sega.com/?t=EnglishUSA

Very short tease of the music for Needlemouse. 16bit goodness. The date of the reveal is coming soon.

[Dezm0nd]

I got a feeling it's gonna go all Megaman 9 on us, DO THE RIGHT THING SEGA. Less is more.

[toythatkills]

The date of the reveal is coming soon.

What? They've announced that there's going to be an announcement of when the announcement is?

Too far.

[Neon Ignition]

The music does suggest a Mega Drive era based Sonic. I'm hoping it's based on the Sonic 3 art style as I'm of the camp that Sonic 3 looked the best of the games but with Sonic 2's level design approach (weirdly S&K for me was the weakest of the 4 games)... and I want them to call it Sonic the Hedgehog 4

[sj33]

The music does suggest a Mega Drive era based Sonic. I'm hoping it's based on the Sonic 3 art style as I'm of the camp that Sonic 3 looked the best of the games but with Sonic 2's level design approach (weirdly S&K for me was the weakest of the 4 games)... and I want them to call it Sonic the Hedgehog 4

You've just made me realise that this game will be dividing people into camps no matter how good it is. I'm in the camp that feels Sonic 2 is excellent and charming, but Sonic 3 & Knuckles gave the formula that little bit of extra depth and (relative) non-linearity without damaging the whole Sonic formula. On the other hand, those who prefer Sonic 2 tend to dislike Sonic 3.

My biggest fear is another 'run so fast through the level that the levels all become forgettable' problem, like what plagued Sonic Advance and Rush.

[abigsmurf]

Sonic Rush was fun, it's just the levels blended into each other and there was a massive difficulty spike in one of the later levels where they overdosed on bottomless pits.

[dataDave]

Sonic3+S&K scale with Sonic CD level design, please.

A really indepth time attack mode, and the levels designed around it, would make replayability awesome.

I doubt they will make a 2D Sonic that good though.

[Ouenben]

They seem to be going very sonic 1 with this game, Sonic only, the sonic 1 logo, the level concept art they showed before looked like sonic 1 green hill zone etc.

Although they did show a badnik concept art that resembled one from sonic 2.

I hope they're using sonic 3 & knuckles level design/scale

[The Mole]

Some clever person has also found out sega have purchaed the following url

https://www.sonicthehedgehog4.com

[sj33]

Sonic CD's level design certainly has character, which is exactly what we need. I definately agree with a need to focus on Time Attack too - this is what we'll all be focusing on once the main game has been completed, and was always an underdeveloped part of the original Sonic games.

[eastyy]

hey anyone got the link to that painting someone did of what they would like the next sonic game to look like ?

[Lime-01R]

You mean this 1? http://www.sonicgd.ru/wp-content/upl...-by-orioto.jpg