Sega has announced that the Japanese-bound Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Sonic World Adventure, better known elsewhere as Sonic Unle- wait, why is he a werewolf?, has been delayed until Spring 2009. According to the game's website (translation via our friends at Siliconera), the delay is to "further improve the quality of the game." The Wii version is purportedly still on track for December 18.
Not to worry, North American gamers, your Sonic experience won't be delayed or hampered by pesky quality improvements. Sonic Unleashed is coming out here next week.
Update: Sega has released a new statement (via CVG) clarifying that the delay is for marketing purposes only.
Reader Comments (63)
Posted: Nov 11th 2008 10:41AM xGearSecondx said
I'm still likely to pick this game up though.
Posted: Nov 11th 2008 11:01AM Negatron said
Pfft Sonic... Mario's apprentice who,
just
wasn't
good enough for the job.
just
wasn't
good enough for the job.
Posted: Nov 11th 2008 11:34AM (Unverified) said
Oh just release this game give it it's typical 5.3 review and get it over with. Enough with this Hyping BS for another mediocre Sonic title.
Posted: Nov 11th 2008 7:45PM (Unverified) said
You're just pissed because the last Megaman games had suck equally or more than the last Sonic games.
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Posted: Nov 11th 2008 11:48AM (Unverified) said
maybe they should stop making sonic games for a few years until they're good, and have sega focus on finishing shenmue 3 for god sakes!!!!
Posted: Nov 11th 2008 1:29PM (Unverified) said
don't understand why they try it eather going to be good or its going to suck. I have no more free time to play bad sonic games
Posted: Nov 11th 2008 2:35PM (Unverified) said
Gonna have to rent this game and check it out.
Posted: Nov 11th 2008 3:14PM ZippyDSMlee said
Face it Sega=fail.
Posted: Nov 11th 2008 4:31PM JRMG said
So, let me get this straight: The majority of Sonic games are mediocre at best, and yet they release those. But this one won't because it's not good enough to release... To me, it sounds like this one is worse than the other dozen mediocre sonics. I hope I'm wrong though.
Posted: Nov 12th 2008 1:59AM (Unverified) said
"So, let me get this straight: The majority of Sonic games are mediocre at best"
Actually, no, you don't have that straight.
The majority of Sonic games are good-to-awesome. The only truly AWFUL Sonic games in recent years have been Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic 2006.
Which is the same number of consecutive mediocre-to-awful Starfox games there have been.
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Actually, no, you don't have that straight.
The majority of Sonic games are good-to-awesome. The only truly AWFUL Sonic games in recent years have been Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic 2006.
Which is the same number of consecutive mediocre-to-awful Starfox games there have been.
Posted: Nov 11th 2008 5:41PM In A World said
I hate you, SEGA. Not because of this news... I just hate you in general. Go back and look at what your people (actual talented people who no longer work for you any more) did to put together the 4 masterpieces: Sonic, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, and Sonic & Knuckles... and just do THAT again! Just friggin' copy and paste that game design and be a good game developer again, dammit!
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