Was it an Error, or Was it Real?
As of today, that Sega Sammy earnings presentation we told you about earlier in the week no longer lists a Nintendo 3DS nor PC port pending for Sonic Generations.
Both English and Japanese versions of the report have been revised on the Sega Sammy website to reflect only the already announced XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 versions coming.
Though it remains possible the entries were made in error, both 3DS and PC editions appear to be a sure bet by this point, leaving most fans to believe someone at corporate let the cat out of the bag early.
We should know for sure about the fate of those two Generations ports at E3 in a couple weeks, and at subsequent conventions. Perhaps you can ask for yourself at the Sonic Boom convention; we still have a few tickets ripe for the winning if you answer our trivia contest correctly.
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Do we know which special guests will be at Sonic Boom?
i’ll be really depressed if this game dont have a PC port seriously:(
There doing damage control, they didn’t want this news to come out so soon.
They removed it because it wasn’t officially announced
FFFFU NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow,this Woun guy tell Tristan a lot of good news.Twice in a day.
Thanks =D
This is a really good news for me.
@Lucas Hinz
How so?
@Lucas Hinz
What? Please tell me your joking.
No, this is not a joke.
Sega don’t need loose money with piracy on PC.
Sega need pay “X” to port on PC.
In PC, 80% or more, piracy sonic games.
Video Games have a BIG public buying original games.
Look the numbers of sonic colors.
So irrational caveman logic.
Good. This game shouldn’t be on PC, Sega were asking for piracy.
Um, okay.. people do the exact same thing with PS3 and 360 games, piracy still isn’t an excuse not to bring the game to PC or 3DS, especially not with the anti piracy plans nintendo has in place. Also, learn proper grammar, seriously.
“Um, okay.. people do the exact same thing with PS3 and 360 games”
Ahhhh yes
PS3 users want lose PSN and 360 users want lose LIVE.
Ohhhh, and console have protection firmware too.
“especially not with the anti piracy plans nintendo has in place”
Nintendo not have a best example with piracy.
*I see my nintendo wii and normal DS (not 3DS)*.
Yeah like the other systems are immune from that! Give me a freaking break when I’m calling this rationality caveman logic I mean it.
@sonikdude101
These console warriors they don’t have a grasp of what were talking about and probably don’t care. The 3DS version almost certainly exists so it’s likely that the PC one is true as well.
@Lucas Hinz
I’m most definably wasting my time here but those protections are commonly defeated to allow pirates on PSN and XBL, PS3 is likely to get even worse if the PSP is any indication, PSP has gotten so bad that hackers can sign any pirated game or homebrew program to run on unmodded PSPs.
@Sonical
yes, any console can been hacked. (captain)
But, in console, you need destroy your online, console lifetime, wait CFW forever, giant HD, long time download.
In pc, one happy boy look Torrent: RIP fullgame sonic generation 1GB
“WEEEEE, download”.
http://www.qj.net/nintendo-3ds/news/nintendo-3ds-license-anti-piracy-measures-detailed.htm
Read up on this before spouting nonsense you probably have no knowledge of, like Sonical said above me. Nintendo’s not messing around with pirates anymore. And i still can’t read half of what you’re saying.
@Lucas Hinz dude try to make at least some sense.
@sonikdude
You read in my post (not 3DS)?
Nintendo not have a best example with piracy.
*I see my nintendo wii and normal DS (not 3DS)*.
sonikdude101 How can i read up on something that is a broken link?
http://www.qj.net/nintendo-3ds/news/nintendo-3ds-license-anti-piracy-measures-detailed.html
Try that one.
Has Sega ever announced a game for which they announced a port at another time? I mean Sonic 4 doesn’t count because they said it was going to be released for a secret platform at first (the iOS version). As much I hate to say this I’m beginning to think that Sonic Generations will not make it to the 3DS or the PC. Perhaps they were planning to make a port at one point but it got canceled.
I do not see what is so hard to believe. If the game was truly for the 3DS and PC as well, then it would’ve simply been announced. The trailer, interviews and everything…they have all just mentioned PS3 releases and XBOX360 releases. If that’s so, then so it shall be.
There is absolutely no point in hiding 3DS and PC releases. Why would they anyways? If they announced it, more people would be interested. They won’t lose anything. It’s not announced simply because it won’t be released for those systems.
Apparently, Sega Sammy have most probably misunderstood given information about the game, and have assigned a 3DS and PC release. They have confirmed they made an error, and simply took them off to avoid any confusion.
Although it is possible they’re trying to “hide” it, while people already know, it is highly unlikely that’s the actual reason, not to mention it doesn’t make any sense. Removing it because of made error makes much more sense from a sober point of view.
Marketing misunderstandings are quite common actually. People make mistakes. It’s human nature, so stop getting your hopes up, and face the music.
YES! That means something else is up for the spot! Hope we find out next month!
Good. PS3 and 360 ftw!
a message to all those saying that the game shouldn’t be ported to PC…..
you do realize it’s possible to pirate 360 games as well right >.>, heck, there’s probably a way to pirate ps3 games. if sega was worried about piracy, they just wouldn’t be releasing games.
@KeigoNiwa It’s true, pirating can happen on all consoles. But the PC (and Nintendo systems) are pirated much more, they are easier to hack.
Oh, and from Sonic Retro:
[Update: It's been brought to my attention that PC may not mean Personal Computer, but may stand for Nintendo's new system codename "Project Cafe." Stay tuned...]
@Lucas Hinz: It’s true, there are more pirates on the PC than in other platforms, but, I believe the number of legit PC gamers has been increasing in the last few years, thanks to the rise of digital distribution services on the PC, especially Steam.
For example, 1 year ago the peak number of users playing any game on Steam at a certain time of the day was around 2 million. Now, that number surpasses 3 million.
Anyway, while previous major Sonic games that SEGA launched for the PC didn’t sell really well, those were launched only on retail (digital distribution wasn’t popular, or maybe it didn’t even exist back then). Today, with a completely different PC market, who knows, maybe a new major Sonic game (Generations?) could actually sell well on PC digital stores?
I hope this game comes to the 3DS. I don’t have the money to buy a X-Box360, or a PS3.
Por queeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!?
I’ll hold out a thin hope for a reason to be secretive, looks to be bad news bears for me though.
i love the pattern here:
1) complain the game isnt on a specific console
they put it on that console
2) explain reasons why it SHOULDN’T be on that console
they take it off the console
3) complain the game isnt on a specific console
The fuck is wrong with these people?
@Frankthehedghog105
Ur right about Woun.
I never got to play Sonic Colours so I was watching all the cutscenes and Roger’s voice on YouTube and then I saw a video made by WounChannel! I didn’t watch the video tho cuz I didn’t notice him before
Damn you Sega! Blame excuses… so if you think that making sonic for PC is senseless because of piracy, then stop making PC games! because there are several other games trademark by sega that are being created on PC. why not Sonic?