Sonic Boom fails to place in UK top 40 sales charts
Our friends across the pond had to wait a bit longer to get their hands on Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Shattered Crystal, as the games weren’t released in the UK until Nov. 21, but it didn’t matter because they weren’t too excited to get the game anyway.
Both games failed to place in last week’s Chart Track’s top 40 sales charts, with the only SEGA titles in the charts being Football Manager 2015 and Alien: Isolation, at 28th and 36th, respectively.
In the Wii U and 3DS specific charts, Rise of Lyric placed third and Shattered Crystal placed 10th.
This isn’t good news at all for SEGA West’s new Sonic the Hedgehog IP as they invested considerably in the franchise, with an animated TV show, merchandise line and even a whole fan event dedicated to it.
What’s more, both games have been panned critically, with Rise of Lyric currently sporting a 38 Metacritic score and Shattered Crystal a 39. With the games selling poorly and being met with poor reviews, it will be interesting to see what SEGA does with the franchise moving forward. Would you like to see another developer, perhaps even Sumo Digital, try their hand at developing a sequel or would you rather SEGA simply kill the franchise now?
Kill it now. Nobody liked Sonic Boom from the moment the character redesigns were revealed.
Forget Sonic Boom, what we need is a Sonic ’06 sequel
I actually like the designs in sonic boom and the animated series is pretty fun to watch. Sad, that the games turned out the way they did; I was pretty excited. Maybe they could make a DLC zone for Lost World, an eshop game, or even a new mobile game. Then, make a new sonic boom console game for ALL systems.
id say kill it. the tv show is ok maybe they can salvage that. but just keep doing games like sonic generations or make sonic adventure 3
My expectations were low already when the designs were introduced, and I hate to see SEGA fail at anything, but by God this game is terrible. Terrible voice acting, animations, mechanics and just stupid writing make this one of the worst Sonic games to date.
SEGA dind´t make the game.Who made the game was Big Red Buttons!