Future Sonic games will have bigger budgets following Frontiers’ success

Following a lengthy development period, Sonic Frontiers finally released late last year to a positive response both from mainstream critics, but especially from hardcore Sonic fans. In the months since, we have seen the game go from strength to strength, selling an impressive 2.9 million units in well under two months – a major achievement for the franchise. Thanks to this success, SEGA has confirmed that future entries in the Sonic series will be given much larger budgets.

One of the common criticisms seen with Sonic games in the past was the fact that they were created with rather tight budgets as well as relatively short development times. With Sonic Frontiers, Sonic Team were finally given the time needed to create a game much greater in scope when compared to recent prior entries. This has resonated well with fans, leading to the aforementioned sales and critical success.

As reported and translated by TailsChannel, SEGA recently held an investor Q&A where one attendee asked “With the strong performance of Sonic Frontiers and other global titles, will you be focusing more on products like it in the future?” to which the publisher quite excitingly responded with:

“We expect development costs for new titles to grow even larger in the future,” adding that “We will strive to ensure solid quality in the development of major titles from our existing franchises. However, development labour costs will rise due to the impact of the global external environment, and we expect this trend to continue for the foreseeable future.”

They continued, “Since it is necessary to take on these challenges for major titles, we are proceeding with a bigger budget, even from the basic research stage. Therefore, we assume that development costs for future new titles will increase accordingly.”

Sonic Frontiers has proven that Sonic Team still have the juice – they just needed time and resources. With even more being afforded to them thanks to Frontiers’ success, it will be highly interesting to see what their next title looks like.

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