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Sonic the Hedgehog will gross more domestically than Detective Pikachu. Who will make an avatar bet? (Up: Sonic beats out Detective Pikachu)
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No we aren't. Sonic is one of the most iconic video game characters of all time. He'll always be known as that. Everyone already knew who Sonic was before the movie.
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I've never been happier to potentially being wrong--I'm glad it's actually a good movie and performing way better than I expected. But it's not over yet! We'll have to see if it holds up, but I hope that it does!
And it might perform even better than those estimates at this rate.
Indeed, a very well established one. If he now has super powered quills that contain super energy (?) and a bag of portal rings (?) im asking if he can just go super sonic without the game prerequisite because they seem to be doing their own thing entirely. I don't think its a stretch to call it cynical when they're including such crude humor, product placement and completely changing some of the most iconic aspects of the IP/Character.
People get excited for a 5 second long credits stinger they probably made later into development is the type of consumerism I just can't understand.
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Yeah some people don't get it.
Sonic is a really really popular video game character. Always has been. Even now it's managed to remain relevant with kids and retain its fans from the 90s and is literally the only non-Nintendo example of a kid-focused video game mascot having any sort of staying power in the mainstream consciousness.
Pac-Man, Mega Man, Spyro, Crash, none of them have managed what Sonic has over the past three decades.
You'd think its a joke , but i've seen far too many people go " Oh that movie ? " when talking about Resident Evil.
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Yep. The only evidence you need is Sonic's video game history. Look at how many flops and poorly received games the franchise has survived. Other franchises would have been killed by just one Sonic 06 or Sonic and the Secret Rings.
People here will hate me for saying this , But I also see a lot of people think Pokemon started with the TV show.
Nintendo might be huge in US and Japan. But in many other countries , everyone's first introduction to Pokemon was through the TV show.
Gaming isn't actually as mainstream as many think, at least until Mobile and F2P hit.
You aren't wrong , Sonic is a far more iconic game. But We have gone through an entire decade without a major game. For a new generation of kids this could be their entry into the franchise.
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ohhh wait Forgot about that one. Yea that game was huge , I guess a lot of kids would know Sonic from that game.
Nintendo might be huge in US and Japan. But in many other countries , everyone's first introduction to Pokemon was through the TV show.
Gaming isn't actually as mainstream as many think, at least until Mobile and F2P hit.
You aren't wrong , Sonic is a far more iconic game. But We have gone through an entire decade without a major game. For a new generation of kids this could be their entry into the franchise.
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ohhh wait Forgot about that one. Yea that game was huge , I guess a lot of kids would know Sonic from that game.
Sonic Mania is hovering around 85 metacritic and sold over 1 million copies, not too shabby. Sonic is hardly dead.
I feel like it's easier to translate Sonic to other media because compared to the rest (except Spyro) he talks a lot and his cast are also well known, Sonic X was one of my favorite shows growing up.
Not saying the games are bad. Or that hes dead. But 1m is quite small in the grand scheme of things.
But for the past 10 years this and Sonic Dash seems to be the biggest things Sonic has had in terms of large audience. Idk how well the Boom TV show did , that might be there too.
Secret Rings wasn't a flop. It wasn't particularly badly recieved it was mixed, plus it was just a spinoff title. And I liked it to be honest...
Lmao Secret Rings was even popular enough to have its own sequel in Sonic and the Black Knight.
A game I never got around to playing. I know that actually did get panned quite badly. How was it compared to Secret Rings? Always been curious about it but never played it. I have heard some really good stuff from its soundtrack though.
For a game like Sonic Mania (as in, a low budget single player game made by a small team), 1 million sales isn't small at all.
I promise you that it's still mainly known as a gaming franchise. :P
I really do feel like a new Sonic game could do massive numbers if it had the quality and the backing from Sega. A Sonic game with the production and ambition of Unleashed and the quality of Mania could do gangbusters if Sega gave it a proper marketing campaign.
To be fair, it's the greatest stinger ever. The hype is justified.
Would you rather them not try to set up a sequel by teasing one at the end of this movie? I took it as a measure of confidence that they expected it to perform well to justify a follow-up movie. If we don't get one at this point, there's gonna be a lot of disappointed people out there including myself.
Do you know how much of my life it took me to realize this pun?
Too much.
I'm just thrilled that people still love and care about Sonic. It's dumb to care about an IP that much, but I guess that I do.
You're not alone my friend.
I'm still kicking myself for it going over my head for so long.
That's not what I said. Im looking at reactions of people screaming in theatre over a credits stinger. Maybe its a usa thing like clapping at the end of movies.
Because of the plot it also means that
Sonic doesn't even really know Tails since he grew up in the other dimension
Good way to get people psyched for a new Sonic game at least. Hope they don't blow this opportunity...
Yeah, my four year old son loves Sonic. He's just a familiar character more than anything else. I think Sega done a good job keeping Sonic somewhat culturally relevant even while the games kind of continue to become less important. This movie is a real stroke of luck for them.
Oooh, okay, now you're making sense. Yeah, that's just how we react to movies over here. Not saying I agree with it but American theaters are generally noisy and over-enthusiastic, especially for nerdy films with a packed audience on opening night. It's been like that for a long time.
Have you seen any of the many theater etiquette threads on Era? Screaming over movies in America is nothing new. lol
Every single one of us knows that feeling.
Alright show of hands. Who actually got that pun quickly? I had to be told years later.
I think I had it explained to me very early on, so I always knew what was up.
Skylanders, as maligned as it was with older audiences, were fairly popular outside of the online enthusiast bubble.
This is still a blanket statement. I don't know that I've ever been to a movie where being obnoxious was the status quo. Of course there's been the occasional douchebag, but never a majority of the audience.
Clapping at a movie was something I never even fathomed before somebody brought it up online...and I honestly thought they were messing with me.
