Another year was gone and Sonic is stronger than in the past years.
I want to make a resume of the most important things that Sonic give us on 2012.
- 3 Sonic Games hits the charts.
From december to early 2012 Sonic CD was the most downloaded game on PSN.
Also in Spain in GAME Store Sonic Generations 3DS was the most sold game for the console.
Mario & Sonic in London 2012 also were the 2º most sold game for Wii.
In PS2 Sonic Heroes was the 4º most sold game and Sonic Riders reached the 10º place.
In PSP Sonic Rivals 1 & 2 were the 7º and 9º most sold games.
In 2012 the franchise began strong because of the critical acclaim of Sonic Generations. If you remember Generations was the redentor game for a lot of sonic fans that had been far because of the bad games like sonic 2006.
Eventhough Sega was really bad, they report loses for a value of $188 million. That force the company to reestructure itself. (A lots of Jobs were lost because of that).
Sega only recover a little bit because of the 3.28 Millions of sold games of Mario and Sonic London 2012 and the 1.85 Millions of Generations. (At this time Generations has sold 2.53 millions)
- Sonic 4 Episode 2 Hits the Charts
It may not be the most epic Sonic Game but was really fun and looks that that was enough for the fans because we make it the Nº1 Game on PSN from May until some months later.
Also in Xbox Live the game sold well.
- 12 Million of Digital Dowloads
Sega recently announce they will focus on Digital Games and it's look like was a good shoot.
Sonic CD, Sonic 4 Ep2 and other sonic games reached 12 Millions of digital (and legal) dowloads for mobile devices.
Recently Sonic Jump and Sonic the Fighters (for PS3 and Xbox 360) has joined to the action and is being well received.
I personally think that this could help Sega and complement the results of the AAA games.
- The Game who no one were expecting (Of course yes!)
Another good new, the HD remake of Sonic Adventure 2 was a best selling.
In USA in october was the 2º most downloaded but during november and early december it was the most dowloaded.
In Europe was the most downloaded game from the very begining.
And in Xbox Live reach very good sales too.
The new sonic game was a critical acclaim, I posted in this blog more than 10 reviews including the always skeptical IGN who give a high rate, EuroGamer, 1UP and others, also in Metacritic the users reviews are excelent.
But the sales doesn't came as we spect it. Until now the game has only sold 390 000 copies.
But remember that we are waiting the charts update and we spect better sales according to the succes on the UK charts.
I want to believe that during the 2013 the game will sell more, the game deserve it, but I will not wait this get better by itself. I will continue promoting the game with all my gamer pals, making tournaments in my school and stuff like that.
We have so much news about the new year, but we know that sega is preparing a AAA Sonic Game and some dowloadable games.
Could 2013 be a good year for Sonic? Well it depends of Sega's future releases and of course is about us too. So if Sega does what it is asked for we must correspond too.
See you until new year, oh wait we are already... forget it, enjoy it!!!
