That and this new IP must be something bloody spectacular for Sony to want it over sonic.
Perhaps they liked what they saw about the IP and wanted to see if it works for them like Yakuza?
I have faith it will be great, whoever is making it....I am secretly hoping it's AM3 because I haven't see them do many franchises on consoles except from Crazy Taxi? (Virtual On would be amazing but that's an old IP)
Overworks is perfectly fine as I loved Valkyria Chronicles.
If Sony really were given the option to have Sonic, then it's certainly odd not to take it despite Sonic not selling as well on Sony machines (since it's SEGA's biggest hitter), but I guess they want the next "Monster Hunter" hit for their Home Console market (I hope it isn't a MonHun clone personally).
I wonder where Aki-At gets his sources from? Would be interesting to know if he's allowed to tell us, that is.