>>46179328SEGA needs all the goodwill they can get, and outside of Sonic himself it was 95% just a buddycop Smurfs film.
TPC can already shit money from almost zero effort thanks to their cult-following, and DP had a dozen times the effort and effects over Sonic's (not that it wasn't equally painful).
>>46181322Sonic is almost definitely going multimedia-first games-second after 20 years of Sonic Team's failures (you know, instead of just hiring new directors that haven't completely burned out), it's probably also why Archie got rebooted into the mandated IDW series and why a Netflix cartoon by those shitty nuMegaman animators is coming.