A Longer Wait, or a True Tease?
It didn’t take long for the January 2010 issue of the US’s Official XBOX Magazine to follow the Holiday issue–the one where they drop a hint at some information on the next Sonic, which we all know as Project Needlemouse.
According to Sonic Retro’s Blue Emerald, the new issue has no word on the new game anywhere within its pages.
“Maybe Sega just wasn’t ready to spill information until it was officially 2010,” he wrote today. “Which means there’s still less than a month left for us to expect new information. Just don’t expect to find any info in the January issue of OXM.”
The news capped off a double whammy weekend of sorts for anxious Sonic fans. In addition to the OXM prospect, some fans were glued to Spike TV’s Video Game Awards on Saturday, hoping that Project Needlemouse would be among the unannounced games to premiere that night. That, also, was to no avail.
So, while the news may not necessarily mean OXM put fans on a string with falsehoods, it will mean a need to wait a little longer until information starts trickling out.
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Wow Sega really is killing me they should at least show something since it`s almost christmas time
Oh well at least some on ASR will be reveiled this week
SEGA is doing the right thing not reavelling nothin…
True but it`s killing me to know if Sonic going to keep his current look but waiting Needlemouse wasn`t as big as waiting for Sonic to get confirmed in Brawl … man for 2 years I`ve been checking out the Brawl until 10/10/07 … man I remember that day I was so freaking happy lol
@gonçalo: I seriosly don’t understand why people is nugging about that it’s a good thing that SEGA is waiting so long to give us something. I’m not hypep for it or something. Only that I don’t understand how you’re thinkin. Yeah, you probably have some of these stupid stuff to say that are just crap IMO. It’s always stuff like that going around. I don’t say that you opinion is stupid. Only that I don’t get why they should wait long. Seriuosly this is some crap someone put into you, proabably a Nintendo thing, yeah everyone should do like them cus they’re awesome(They are the opposite IMO). Sorry, I just hear every Nintndo fan say that so I guess that it’s something from that.
Sorry if some people here get pissed of becaus the things I said above. If you get pissed off…..well then that’s life, live with it. If you’re so easally pissed off becaus of that, well then you probably have no life if you care about games so much.
I though it was the U.S. Official Xbox Magazine that teased Project Needlemouse not the UK one?
Okay, how exactly does Blue Emerald know this? Does he even HAVE that issue of the magazine so early?
Please elaborate, Tristan.
they revealed it to early XD… Really.. Now its painfull to wait X(
I agree with Osnic 70% only that nintendo crap, but 30% I agree with gonçalo ‘cus if SEGA do just like they did with Unleashed, when the game comes out we will already know everything about (levels, stuff…) and that’s not cool when you really get it… oh well Hope that game is AWSOME
i want to see only 1 screenshot this Sonic Xmas lool hehe
Merry Sonic Xmas everyone
@Osnic: It’s easy to understand. They go the Nintendo way, and Nintendo is awesome.
@SU: Umm… even if they wait with giving us info, that doesn’t mean that they won’t giving us a lot later.
@gonzalo: And you… there’s a contradiction in what you’re saying! “Not revealing nothing” is just… strange. But I get what you mean. You are just so right, SEGA is awesome!
Yea I agree. I think it’s kinda good that Needlemouse is getting such limited information. I don’t know about anybody else, but everytime I hear it mentioned on a website I get a little excited. I love the suspense but also it kills me too. lol.
SEGA stinks. THEY SHOULD TELL US SOMTHING!
It’s the build up… *shades* …before the let down.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH
Okay, time to clarify a few things:
1) Yes, it is the US Xbox Magazine, not the UK Xbox Magazine.
2) I too was shocked to see the Jan 10 issue yesterday, considering we’re not even halfway through December yet. (For proof, Splinter Cell Conviction is the main story on the cover) Such an early release is probably why we don’t yet have info on Needlemouse. Nonetheless, I’ll scour these pages again and see if I can find any small mention of the game, though I don’t think I’ll find anything more on my second readthrough.
In the meantime, Sonic fans might want to point out this mishap to OXM (US).
i don’t know i think i kinda side with gonazalo on this one. i feel like Sega not pouring out hordes of information mean they might be taking their time to develop and take it seriously. maybe their trying to space out the possible new sonic look from the last sonic game, Sonic Unleashed. Although that came out just about a year ago, it’s still pretty fresh in peoples minds. In the past, Sega has had a track record of jumping the gun with the new sonic that would be the “return to greatness” and everyone ended up disappointed. Maybe thats the reason for taking their time, although if this were the case, they might have just waited to announce Needlemouse at all to a time closer to when they could unveil information.
Or maybe theyre just doing like Abrams did with Cloverfield. The only reason the movie was so popular was because everyone wanted to see what the monster looked like. haha
Blue Emerald, I’ve amended the story to reflect the US designation.
Thanks for clarifying. =)
-T
People expected Sonic at the VGA? Seriously?
It’s Spike TV. Did people really think Sonic the Hedgehog in this day and age would be taken seriously on Spike TV?
The countdown for project needlemouse starts now.
I wish they’d at least give us a single screen shot to drool over. Or another teaser with some gameplay.
Well, there may be somethin’ on christmas day for us all, who knows…
Come on! There is a term for this “Silence is Golden”. Sega really wants to earn the trust of Retro Sonic fans. Sega does care finally.