10 Things Sega Wants You To Forget About Sonic The Hedgehog

1. That He's Become Irrelevant

The biggest obstacle affecting Sonic The Hedgehog in the modern era of gaming is that he's simply become irrelevant. Years of blunders, uninteresting gimmicky titles, unfinished and inferior products have made people lose interest, while the 3D platformer in general has been at a decline since the advent of more popular genres. Even if the character had been handled well in the past 10 years, it's debatable that there'd not be a clear place for Sonic in the gaming industry even then.

The Sonic games that did appear on the Playstation 2/3 and Xbox/Xbox 360 through 2005 to 2010 met a lukewarm reception. As of 2013, Sega havepartnered with Nintendo to bring the Wii U and 3DS Sonic exclusives. The thing is, while the Wii U and the 3DS may have an appropriate audience for Sonic, the blue hedgehog is playing second fiddle to other Nintendo characters such as Mario. Sonic Lost World was well received, but financially its sales were lacking compared to Nintendo-developed franchise titles like Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Pikmin 3 or Mario Kart 8.

Ultimately, the sad truth is Sonic's time in the limelight has basically passed and Sega are just prolonging the mascot at this point. That'snot to say a comeback is impossible for the blue speedster, but they'd need a decade of forgettable titles, soiled reputations and false professionalism to be forgotten, but that's not an easy feat.