SEGA recently announced Sonic Pico Park which is a new independent take on the classic Sonic franchise and is being handled by Tecopark and inspired by their hit game, Pico Park. Speaking to Games Radar, Sonic Team boss Takashi Iizuka praised indies and said how difficult it is for AAA games with their big budgets to make the money back in a fiercely competitive industry, saying “It’s a huge investment of, you know, the staff and the resources that we have, and then once you’ve invested all that time and energy into something, you really need to sell a lot of units in order to survive in the industry.” |
