I want more sonic spinoffs

[DrunkGecko]

I wish the sonic franchise had as much spin offs as the Mario franchise
They literally have so many characters they could flesh out I don't understand why Sega doesn't do it

 

[Cloudh20]

I would like a Mario and Sonic crossover that was an RPG.

 

[UnDubious]

A proper Sonic RPG when the series was still cool would have been great. Like around the time of Super Mario RPG, maybe a late Genesis or Saturn game. Other than that, I disagree. Sega not just doing the same damn franchises over and over is one of the things I prefer them over Nintendo for.

 

[TinRattler]

Sonic vs Mario kart

 

[Matricks]

Because Sonic is an animal and kinda boring as rpg character, no princess to save etc, otherwise tgere would be a flood spinoffs, it just doesnt sale.

 

[TinRattler]

Because Sonic is an animal and kinda boring as rpg character, no princess to save etc, otherwise tgere would be a flood spinoffs, it just doesnt sale.

Mario is a fat smelly Italian plumber who does the same thing over and over again. Mario is a cult brainwashed the masses

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I wish the sonic franchise had as much spin offs as the Mario franchise.

The issue is that historically, for each idea Sonic tried, the Mario equivalent was much, much better.

Sonic Chronicles failed as a RPG where Mario thrived with Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi.

Sonic's early racing games paled in comparison of Mario Kart. Sure, All-Star Racing and its sequels were good but it took them almost two decades.

Sonic's attempt at a party game with Shuffle ended up being a failure whereas Mario Party brought hours of fun to people.

Maybe the only time Sonic did it better was Sonic Pinball Party vs Super Mario Ball but that was a mere flipper game.

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Sega not just doing the same damn franchises over and over is one of the things I prefer them over Nintendo for.

I'd beg to differ though.

Sega is often doing Sonic, Yakuza and Persona games around while barely remembering their older IPs.

Yes, we had SoR 4 then a new Shinobi game but how many years after? Sure they've finally announced a new Jet Set Radio, Golden Axe, SoR and Crazy Taxi game recently as well but we've waited over a decade (not counting mobile game spinoffs like the Crazy Taxi one).

And Nintendo is also bringing new IP to the table (Drag X Drive being one) as well as bringing back older IPs from time to time (such as Famicom Detective Club) so that's a bit disingenuous to assume one doesn't do what the other is also doing.

PS: Actually I'm tired of Sega milking Sonic and making spin-offs instead of bringing back older IPs would hurt more.

 

[UnDubious]

Sega is often doing Sonic, Yakuza and Persona games around while barely remembering their older IPs.

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Persona is Atlus. Sega owns Atlus but it's still its own company that does its own thing under Sega, and it was mostly MegaTen since before Sega bought them.
Yakuza and Sonic are their two cash cows now so they have to keep them going. It doesn't change the fact that through their history they were always much more into doing the new thing than keeping every series going together.

 

[bjork]

They were apparently going to do this with grand plans for all sorts of Sonic-related spinoffs after the splash Sonic 1 made, but then the original Sonic died on Sonic 2sday after accidentally drinking bleach. Tom Kalinske hustled to find a lookalike, and that's why Sonic looks different in part 3. But he never quite got as much love as the original Sonic, and so when Spinball came out and was abysmal, the other spinoff projects were all done as tax write-offs for loss of income. Sorry.