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Former SEGA marketing director laments Sonic's fall from grace, but has 'great hope' for the future

by rawmeatcowboy
08 February 2016
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Coming from a Polygon interview with former SEGA Marketing Director, Al Nilsen...

"When [former employees of Sega of America] would go to E3 and see what was happening ... a lot of times we would just go and we would shake our heads and we were very, very sad. Because, you know, what we had established and what we had built was something that was very, very special.

It’s fine to go and change the look of the character, but the gameplay has to go and play off against that. Then the story started getting convoluted. If I was Sonic, I was probably having an identity crisis. You don’t need this cast of 8,000 characters,"

"I have great hope for the future of Sonic. Sonic is not dead; he’s just out of the spotlight. The future for Sonic can be as bright as [Sonic’s home planet] Mobius is."

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