"Lost World might just be our best Sonic game yet"
Posted 10 Aug 2013 at 06:57 by Mohamed Ali
COO of SEGA Europe, Jurgen Post voiced his thoughts on their upcoming game in the latest issue of MCV. He discusses The company's main priorties, SEGA's working relationship with Nintendo and the upward trend in recent years when it comes to the Sonic The Hedgehog series and despite the Wii U's troubles, Jurgen Post hopes that Sonic can help Nintendo turn it around when Lost World releases worldwide this October.
Jurgen Post: "[Wii U's slow start] is a concern. But I certainly hope Sonic can help. The Lost World might just be our best Sonic game yet. It is one of the games that can help them. I saw Nintendo's briefing at E3 and it has a very strong line-up of games for Wii U. I think it's helping people think that things might change."
Jurgen Post: "Historically, Sonic games have always sold very well on Nintendo platforms, so it's a good fit and Nintendo and SEGA have always worked together in a positive way – the first game Sonic debuted on after we stopped making hardware was a Nintendo platform."
Jurgen Post: "We started to make quality the number one priority. Even in the back catalogue: if we had Sonic games with low quality, or a bad Metacritic, we took them off the shelf. We focused on the core game - not offering all that back catalogue deals when a new game comes out. I think we're seeing the results of that now.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed had good Metacritic scores last year and the last few years the Sonic games have had better and better reviews. We're on the right track with Sonic."
Just in case you haven't watched it already, here's the latest trailer of the game.