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Message: [QUOTE="Leon, post: 45727, member: 2240"] I quoted you on why sonic shifted to 3d and was saying the shift was due to chasing the 3d trend, not due to anything in sonic 3& knuckles. As for 2d vs 3d i disagree, 2d was still massively popular at the time and did sell well still, while i don't think that sega should not have made any 3d games, their reliance on 3d is what weakened them as the saturn was a 2d powerhouse, not a 3d one. There is no reason sega couldn't have had a team working on a 2d sonic while working on a 3d game in the background, what they did was devoted tons of resources to sonic x-treme and and other 3d projects and ended up with only sonic R on the saturn. Fads do not really work for success in gaming in general as eventually fads fade, or for that matter the success of symphony of the night, my point is that sega went too hard into the 3d space and ironically what kept them afloat in the saturn era was 2d and 2.5d games, mostly in japan because like sony, sega had a tendency to ignore 2d games being released in the west in the early years of the era (sony still has a problem with this occasionally, like their stance on "cutesy or animeish" games in the ps3 era). [/QUOTE]

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