What are the chances of a retro Sonic game, much like Mega Man 9?

Akinori Nishiyama, General Manager of Sonic Team, is answering this question. When you see ‘he’ in the answer, that is the translator referring to Mr. Nishiyama.

“Actually, he has been working on Sonic Advance and Sonic Rush and is very keen on keeping the 2D game. But, having said that, he also thinks 3D Sonic [is good]…And he has been thinking so hard to incorporate those good things from both 3D and 2D. And this is one of the reasons that in Sonic Unleashed we have both 3D and 2D mixed gameplay, kind of switched, going back and forth…Although he thinks that the original 2D game was really good, he doesn’t intend to publish kind of a remake of the original game.”

Well, that is really pretty disappointing. Could you image how Sonic fans would eat up a new, classic entry in the franchise? I know I’d be all over that idea. Thanks to JJC for the heads up.

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