Note: This is a topic about giving my opinion, not yours, I don't want any kind of fights for everything I'm going to say below.
Everyone will know Sonic, either because they played his classic games on some compilation or played his current games on multiple consoles.
But what they don't know. Is that Sonic was originally an exclusive, in this case to SEGA consoles. In the 90's, the only way to enjoy the blue hedgehog's games was to buy a SEGA console. And everyone knows about the rivalry between Mario and Sonic at that time. Well, he had to go either to the SEGA side or to the Nintendo side.
And that created competition, and competition is very important. If a product comes out that is better and superior to another brand's product, the rival brand will try to do the same. Because if there is no competition, brands will end up releasing products that will be worse as the years go by.
And this also applies to video games. Sonic was Mario's direct competitor during the 90s. And that's why they released games that tried to beat the red plumber.
Unfortunately. After the premature death of Dreamcast, SEGA abandoned the production of consoles and dedicated itself to develop only video games. So many of their IPs went from being exclusive to being multiplatform. That includes Sonic himself.
From that moment on. Sonic games began to lose quality, starting with Sonic Heroes, which although it was not a bad game, it was far from surpassing the Sonic Adventure duology that came out for Dreamcast. And with Sonic The Hedgehog (2006), you must already know the rest of the story.
That's why. I think Sonic should have become exclusive, even when SEGA stopped making consoles, in order to continue being Mario's competition and not lose quality. Because becoming multiplatform prejudiced too much the blue hedgehog in my opinion.
And I think that the chosen platform for Sonic to be an exclusive definitely and not to leave there is Xbox. Because Playstation I don't see it feasible because there are characters that took that place like Sackboy or Ratchet & Clank.
Even more than Xbox. The image of Master Chief is already somewhat deteriorated, because many people are getting tired of First Person Shooters because they already seem generic and look like Call of Duty clones. It is known that COD was responsible for oversaturating the market by releasing several games a year and they all look the same one after the other.
So Sonic should become an exclusive and become the new mascot of the Xbox brand and give a fresh air to that brand.
For that. Microsoft should do business with SEGA to acquire the publishing and distribution rights to Sonic, I'm not saying that Microsoft should buy SEGA, but I simply want Microsoft to be the one to publish and distribute Sonic games, so that they would be the only publishers and distributors of Sonic games and therefore they would be exclusive to the Xbox ecosystem.
And to be able to attract more people to be interested in buying Sonic games on Xbox. SEGA should remove all Sonic games from Nintendo and Playstation digital stores and shut down the servers of several games on those platforms such as Team Sonic Racing. This to motivate people to end up moving to Xbox to continue enjoying the blue hedgehog games. This will not affect games from other SEGA IPs, but in case those games have cameos and/or references to the Sonic franchises. Even if Sonic himself appears as a guest character in those games, regardless of whether they are from SEGA or not. These will also be removed or will be edited to remove all kinds of references to the blue hedgehog as they did at the time with The Revenge of Shinobi with the appearance of Spider-Man.
With all this. Sonic would be again Mario's competition and therefore would resurrect the rivalry he had with the plumber in the 90's, when he became an Xbox exclusive. So its games should become better and even superior to those of Mario.
And if someone comes to say that the genre of 3D platformers or
Collectathon is dead. Remember Psychonauts 2.
Anyone want to say something about it?
Everyone will know Sonic, either because they played his classic games on some compilation or played his current games on multiple consoles.
But what they don't know. Is that Sonic was originally an exclusive, in this case to SEGA consoles. In the 90's, the only way to enjoy the blue hedgehog's games was to buy a SEGA console. And everyone knows about the rivalry between Mario and Sonic at that time. Well, he had to go either to the SEGA side or to the Nintendo side.
And that created competition, and competition is very important. If a product comes out that is better and superior to another brand's product, the rival brand will try to do the same. Because if there is no competition, brands will end up releasing products that will be worse as the years go by.
And this also applies to video games. Sonic was Mario's direct competitor during the 90s. And that's why they released games that tried to beat the red plumber.
Unfortunately. After the premature death of Dreamcast, SEGA abandoned the production of consoles and dedicated itself to develop only video games. So many of their IPs went from being exclusive to being multiplatform. That includes Sonic himself.
From that moment on. Sonic games began to lose quality, starting with Sonic Heroes, which although it was not a bad game, it was far from surpassing the Sonic Adventure duology that came out for Dreamcast. And with Sonic The Hedgehog (2006), you must already know the rest of the story.
That's why. I think Sonic should have become exclusive, even when SEGA stopped making consoles, in order to continue being Mario's competition and not lose quality. Because becoming multiplatform prejudiced too much the blue hedgehog in my opinion.
And I think that the chosen platform for Sonic to be an exclusive definitely and not to leave there is Xbox. Because Playstation I don't see it feasible because there are characters that took that place like Sackboy or Ratchet & Clank.
Even more than Xbox. The image of Master Chief is already somewhat deteriorated, because many people are getting tired of First Person Shooters because they already seem generic and look like Call of Duty clones. It is known that COD was responsible for oversaturating the market by releasing several games a year and they all look the same one after the other.
So Sonic should become an exclusive and become the new mascot of the Xbox brand and give a fresh air to that brand.
For that. Microsoft should do business with SEGA to acquire the publishing and distribution rights to Sonic, I'm not saying that Microsoft should buy SEGA, but I simply want Microsoft to be the one to publish and distribute Sonic games, so that they would be the only publishers and distributors of Sonic games and therefore they would be exclusive to the Xbox ecosystem.
And to be able to attract more people to be interested in buying Sonic games on Xbox. SEGA should remove all Sonic games from Nintendo and Playstation digital stores and shut down the servers of several games on those platforms such as Team Sonic Racing. This to motivate people to end up moving to Xbox to continue enjoying the blue hedgehog games. This will not affect games from other SEGA IPs, but in case those games have cameos and/or references to the Sonic franchises. Even if Sonic himself appears as a guest character in those games, regardless of whether they are from SEGA or not. These will also be removed or will be edited to remove all kinds of references to the blue hedgehog as they did at the time with The Revenge of Shinobi with the appearance of Spider-Man.
With all this. Sonic would be again Mario's competition and therefore would resurrect the rivalry he had with the plumber in the 90's, when he became an Xbox exclusive. So its games should become better and even superior to those of Mario.
And if someone comes to say that the genre of 3D platformers or
Collectathon is dead. Remember Psychonauts 2.
Anyone want to say something about it?
