I am personally fairly nosy relating to studying about recreation firms, their earnings, and what titles do significantly nicely for them. So when it is time to launch the figures, I am there studying and ready. And now it is official: Sega is releasing its gross sales figures for 2 lately acclaimed Sonic video games: Sonic Superstars and Sonic Frontiers. The figures are a bit of stunning and will trace in the direction of the corporate’s success, as Frontiers’ 4.57 million items surpass Nintendo Swap video games like Metroid Dread and Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge.
Within the new paperwork, Superstars performs barely decrease than Superstars, with 2.43 million items offered, making it equal to video games just like the Swap model of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, although the latter has been out for seven years already, and Superstars solely got here out in 2024. Sega’s newest Built-in Report additionally sheds gentle on its Sonic cellular recreation, Sonic Sprint, which has racked up a complete of 676 million downloads. Seems like loads, proper?
Effectively, it’s, provided that one of many greatest cellular video games of all time, Pokémon Go continues to say billions of downloads. Over half of that’s a particularly respectable determine, even when it is not reaching fairly the heights of the smash hit Pokémon recreation. Each Sonic Frontiers and Superstars had been deeply hated by some Sonic followers on-line, so it is amusing to see reactions to the first rate gross sales figures. However will a brand new gaming king be topped?
Effectively, regardless of some promising figures, it appears like Sega will keep behind Nintendo for now. In the end, Nintendo’s broad number of titles and deep dedication to its IPs win. Sega depends considerably upon Sonic, and to some extent, the Persona collection. Nintendo’s dominance with Mario, Animal Crossing, Zelda, Pikmin, and plenty of extra flagship IPs is loads for any firm to face off towards. If Sega needs to catch up, it’s going to must manufacture some hit franchises. Or simply make one other 15 Sonic films, I suppose.
Mario Kart 8 remains to be the most important and greatest Swap recreation of all time, with 68.86 million gross sales, whereas Sega’s biggest-selling recreation, the unique Sonic the Hedgehog from 1991, offered over 40 million copies. As a result of Sega backed out of the {hardware} recreation, it could not depend on gross sales from that to maintain its foot within the door, both. Not that the Dreamcast went significantly nicely for it. It looks as if we’ll proceed to worship our one true god, Mario-sama.
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