Sega: Sonic Wii was almost a port of Sonic 360
by David Hinkle 
{ Feb 22nd 2007 at 4:15PM }
And how lame would that have been?During an interview with Kikizo, Sega's Sonic Team Producer Yojiro Ogawa spoke about the team's latest game Sonic and the Secret Rings. What gamers may not know is that the title was originally going to be a port of the Xbox 360 and PS3 title Sonic the Hedgehog. Thankfully though, this did not come to pass once Sonic Team got their hands on the hardware and decided to create a whole new game. Ogawa takes us back to a time before the game was under development when "the team looked at the controls and the hardware, we realised that the hardware was very different compared to the 360 and PS3 version that was under development, and that we wouldn't be able to convert the game to Wii. So we started a completely different title."
The rest of the interview talks about the team's decision to play Sonic into the story 1,001 Nights and how the 'Revolution' code-name for the system gave them inspiration to revolutionize Sonic and the way we play him. Thank our lucky stars they did, because we do not want to think about what could've been.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Alex @ Feb 22nd 2007 4:28PM
So I guess this is one of those rare instances where the Wii's underpowered hardware was actually a blessing in disguise! Just goes to show that powerful hardware means little without good software.
Napajay @ Feb 22nd 2007 4:50PM
i dont know if it is just me... (and this may be a little late) its nice to put the "game" back into the game.. im not excited about all theses all to real games anymore dont we all have a little to much real life games to play everyday?? istn that why the wii is a little bit of a breath of fresh air??
Sengoku @ Feb 26th 2007 8:54AM
This entire blog network needs to stop reposting stories that we all read last week in Game Informer or EGM. We get the magazines too guys. Focus on the online news please.