Following many less-than-stellar entries in the series, Sonic Team seemed to have hit it out of the park with Sonic Frontiers. Since its release last year, the game has been increasingly praised by fans, selling millions of copies as a result. According to SEGA’s President and COO, the game has “managed to sell more copies than we anticipated.”

In an interview conducted by Japanese magazine Famitsu, SEGA’s President and COO Yukio Sugino was asked about what he found to be memorable last year, with the executive responding (as translated by NintendoEverything):

“Of course, first I have to mention Sonic Frontiers. With Utsumi (Mr. Shuji, vice president, representative director and co-COO of SEGA) at the center, a multitude of projects meant to make Sonic even bigger than before progressed to the point of bearing fruit. In April last year, the movie Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was released in North America, which fortunately resulted in a good start, allowing our global revenue to reach over about 570 million yen.”

Sugino continued, “We released Sonic Frontiers on the back of that, and managed to sell more copies than we anticipated. That in itself was heartening, we were also happy to receive a lot of messages, mainly from North American fans, expressing joy that Sonic was moving towards a good direction.”

Latest figures have put Sonic Frontiers as having sold over 3.5 million copies since its release in November of last year. That said, with the continued support that the game is seeing from SEGA and Sonic Team, it is safe to say that Sonic Frontiers’ success is not slowing down any time soon.

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