Within the wake of the current profitable launch of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, head of Sonic Staff Takashi Iizuka spoke concerning the improvement group’s course of in determining what to make subsequent. As caught by Genki_JPN, Iizuka spoke about how Sonic Staff has a roadmap with quite a lot of potential Sonic initiatives on the current Brasil Sport Present 2025.
As a part of the method, the group first makes the roadmap, after which figures out which recreation it desires to work on subsequent. As soon as that call has been made, assets are then allotted accordingly. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds was developed in an identical method, since Sonic Staff wished to deal with reviving the racing facet of issues for the franchise.
“First we create a roadmap of Sonic titles and take into consideration which recreation to launch by which 12 months, stated Iizuka. “We then allocate the event assets wanted to develop these titles. So this 12 months we’ve strengthened the racing style, and we’re presently planning what to do subsequent on the roadmap.”
Nevertheless, Iizuka didn’t present extra particulars about these roadmaps, akin to how far into the long run it makes plans for with regards to making new Sonic titles. The roadmaps additionally doubtless take note of different initiatives within the Sonic franchise that may already be beneath improvement.
Within the meantime, Sega has confirmed that Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has offered greater than one million copies since its launch again in September throughout PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, and Nintendo Swap. The announcement was made alongside the discharge of Joker from Persona 5 as a playable character for the kart racer, together with the addition of three new songs from the turn-based RPG – Take Over, Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There, and Victory.
As its identify may suggest, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is the latest entry within the kart racing mini-series beneath the bigger Sonic franchise. The title launched with 24 common tracks and 23 characters from throughout the Sonic franchise, in addition to a number of visitor characters, together with vocaloid music retailer Hatsune Miku. Alongside its fast-paced arcade-styled racing, the core gameplay of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds revolves across the titular mechanic that enables gamers to alter the monitor in the course of a race due to portals that take racers to completely different areas.
A Nintendo Swap 2 model of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds can be deliberate for launch. Within the meantime, the title can be slated to get quite a lot of completely different DLC releases, which is able to embrace characters from franchises outdoors of Sega. These franchises embrace Mega Man, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Minecraft. Take a look at extra particulars concerning the kart racing recreation in our assessment, the place we gave it a rating of 9 out of 10 due to its efficiency and enjoyable gameplay.
The Sonic franchise has been seeing basic success as effectively. Again in January, Sega had confirmed that Sonic X Shadow Generations had offered greater than 2 million copies. The announcement got here after its launch day again in October 2024 already noticed greater than one million gross sales.
