Sega Explains the Silence on Sonic 4
Perhaps Sega is trying to trump Nintendo in delay announcements?
Through about a month or more of various video leaks and complaints about Sonic’s eye color without a single update to the official Sonic the Hedgehog 4 website, Sega has released a new press release today. This news is also scheduled to be announced on Gamespot’s weekly Today On the Spot show.
The two significant announcements from the press release are as follows:
- The game’s release is being delayed until near the end of the year
- iPhone and iPod Touch versions confirmed
While the Apple platform versions were technically confirmed a while back (though with no official press release), the delay of the game’s overall release is a bit more interesting. The Sega Blog’s own RubyEclipse assures that, “we’ve mixed internal suggestions alongside fan feedback to make some new, positive changes to the game.” That’s probably in case anyone was wondering why a game that appeared to be completed is going to be delayed (or at least as far as Episode 1 goes). Either Sega really wants to delay the game to change it based off of fan feedback, or they want to get revenge at those who leaked footage of Episode 1 and change a bunch of things to make them irrelevant… or so people can brag about how they witnessed the ‘Sonic 4 Episode 1 Beta’ and make fan sites about it.
The blog also mentions, “Finally, there are rumors that something very special relating to Sonic 4 is coming around a special date this June.” Most likely relating to E3, but if Sonic 4 is proof of anything, it’s that Sega likes to play with everyone’s mind.
Update: You can view the Gamespot interview here.
(Source: Sega Blog/Press Release)
