SMC3 Listing Removed from “Sonic’s Channel”
Tristan Oliver | June 8, 2009
Authenticity of “Official” Status Questioned
The YouTube channel claiming itself to be the official presence of Sonic the Hedgehog there removed a listing we reported on Friday that claimed another Sonic Mega Collection would be out next year.
Without explanation, the listing was removed by “SonicsChannel” over the weekend, replaced with another TBR listing for the mobile edition of Sonic Unleashed. The YouTube page is part of a series of Sonic related channels with dedicated pages for most major characters from Eggman to Cream–all interwoven, and all claiming to be official. The sites appear to be operated and maintained out of Japan. Sega does have official YouTube pages for its American, European and Japanese divisions. It is interesting to note that SonicsChannel does hold subscriptions to all of these official Sega channels, and it holds a YouTube friendship standing with the official Sega channel in Japan.
Many within the community dispute the authenticity of that official status, and an inquiry is underway within Sega regarding that claim, and whether such a compilation has even been considered, let alone in development. Even more community chatter questions why another compilation is needed with so many re-releases already, and what else could be included on them.
When TSSZ News learns the results of the inquiry, we will follow up.
Filed Under Hot Topics, Rumor Alert, Sonic Scene, The Next Sonic
Something smells fishy…
I thought the channels themselves were pretty cool. I laughed aloud when I read that Sonic’s favourite music was his own theme songs xD The channel itself looked quite official, and the language used by the speaker (that is, Sonic) suited the hedgehog perfectly, though I can see how the article above is going raise some sceptical eyebrows anyway.
Perhaps the channels are official, and somebody just made a rather large boo-boo. But I’m an optimist…
I was hoping for an awesome Sonic Compilation, but oh well. I’ll stick with SMC.
Why another Sonic compilation is needed?
Gee, I can’t imagine what could be put on there.
Honestly, with the recent Ultimate Genesis Collection’s release, I can’t see why they couldn’t make a compilation with every Sonic Genesis, Master System, and Game Gear game ever made, along with Sonic CD, Sonic The Fighters, Sonic R, Sega Sonic Arcade, Knuckles Chaotix, maybe an ultimate unlockable of the Xtreme tech demo…hell, even throw in Flicky and Ristar. They’ve proven that an ultra compilation to end all compilations is possible, they just haven’t spent enough time to do it.
Hm? Sega Sonic Arcade uses a trackball? Well, there has to be some way around that. Knuckles Chaotix has emulation problems? We can wait. Try try again and all that.
Just do it, get it over with. Release the game that will cause every Sonic fan to have seizures from joy. Easy access to any game we want to play.
I’m glad you guys did a follow-up report on this! Way to be on top of things! I highly doubt these channels are real, but it would be nice to have some official conformation of this!