Given what the state of the gaming industry is right now, if anyone, and we mean ANYONE, who has the power over certain franchises, revealed that there was a remaster or a remake of a classic title coming out…we’d all wouldn’t really bat an eye. Even if it was something we’d really want, we wouldn’t take it as a “surprise” versus just an “inevitability” with developers and publishers trying to make “quick cash” off nostalgia. That brings us to the Sonic Adventure games, which were instrumental in helping Sonic the Hedgehog reach new levels of fame.
The games were so good that the second one even served as inspiration for the third live-action film that came out last year and did incredibly well at the global box office. Yet, despite all of that, SEGA and Sonic Team haven’t tried to remaster/remake those two entries, even WITH fans asking for it. As noted by Nintendo Everything, the reason for this can be found via the words of Sonic Team head Takahashi Iizuka, who noted that there’s a basic reason they’re not doing it:
“I do hear that a lot. I really am appreciative for everyone who likes the Sonic Adventure series, but when I think about what it would take to kind of bring that game up to the standards and expectations of what the modern gaming audience would want, I think it would be about as much time and energy as it would to make a new title. Part of me is thinking maybe I should just make a brand new title and that’s why there’s currently no plans.”
The irony here is that while many might think “new title” means something like Sonic Frontiers, it could just as easily mean a new entry in the Adventure line, should they want to go that path. Only time will tell what SEGA does next with its blue blur.
