Comments on: Sonic Colours not off to a good start in the UK

By: ezodagrom

ezodagrom — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:42:37 +0000

Well, not only it's just first day sales, it's quite possible that lots of stores didn't even had the game on the release day.

Where I live (Portugal), the local store is only going to start selling it this thursday. .____.

By: Sega Uranus

Sega Uranus — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:11:32 +0000

I am not too worried, but if it undersells I will blame it on the style they used most of all.

I really just think around 10 years of constant not-too-good Sonic games has really just done it's work to the franchise. It can recover, but not for awhile. Fortunately SEGA has a ton of great IPs they can build up in the meanwhile!

By: Grant360

Grant360 — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:22:57 +0000

Sonic games tend to be slow burners that sell a lot more on budget but this is still very very sad. With Kinect and Black Ops this week hopefully this swamped Sonic out of the market…

By: Sharky

Sharky — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:34:03 +0000

If this is just the first day sales then I am not worried at all.

The game is going up against some big hitting AAA titles this holiday, luckily most of them are 18+ games so I expect Sonic Colours to get a good foothold in the Christmas period.

It is bound to be a long lasting slow burner anyway, It's Sonic on the Wii.

I'm not worried yet.

By: -nSega54-

-nSega54- — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:06:35 +0000

In North America the marketing's been horrible, I assume Sega will only be marketing this to the younger crowd, which is unfortunate.

Edit: apparently they did create a North America TV spot, so…we'll see.

By: Autosaver

Autosaver — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:41:47 +0000

Guys… Its first day sales.

And most of the titles beating it are hyped up/license titles/crap

It'll pick up around Christmas.

By: Aki-at

Aki-at — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:58:50 +0000

This is bad, very very bad. I've not seen a Sonic game chart that low in a long time, if ever.

Damage to the series has been done, it's going to take a while before it finally heals, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is tracking above SEGA's expectations, but Sonic Colours must surely be severely undertracking, especially in the usually pro-Sonic United Kingdom. To put into prespectative how bad the openning week is, it makes Yakuza 3's release in the UK seem like Call of Duty, as that was just on one platform, Sonic Colours is represented by two.

It'll be interesting to see if sales picks up as good word of mouth goes around, but I'm not expecting much to be quite honest. Hopefully I'm wrong though.

By: CrazyTails

CrazyTails — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:52:46 +0000

I think people are finally losing interest from all previous games, the damage is starting to become more noticable. It's not fair, especially now sonic finally has a universally praised game