As stated last month with Sega’s parent company, Sega Sammy Holdings having a “group structure reform” on putting their efforts to the PC and mobile markets, many thought that Sega would still make console games in low quantity with their efforts mostly focusing on PC and smartphones. Well, it has been officially confirmed by Japan Today that they will depart from the console market in putting in more effort to the PC and mobile markets, as evident with the next Sonic game called Sonic Runners to be a mobile free-to-play game, after the massive failure that was Sonic Boom.

As stated last month with Sega's parent company, Sega Sammy Holdings having a "group structure reform" on putting their efforts to the PC and mobile markets, many thought that Sega would still make console games in low quantity with their efforts mostly focusing on PC and smartphones. Well, it has b

Speaking of Sonic, in an interview with 4Gamer, head of Sonic Team Takashi Iizuka confirmed that the Sonic series will continue to be made on consoles as he personality doesn’t see future installments of the franchise not be on them.

“Please rest assured, I personally have no plans to stop making Sonic games for home consoles.”

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