It's not out of character for them to do so, so I imagine they would hire a second-party to collab with Sonic Team to either remake Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 as a compilation and/or Sonic Adventure 3. Iizuka did say he wanted to continye the Adventure games someday.
Yes, but Iizuka also said they always wanted to challenge themself into new things, that's why Sonic game usually very different from the previous one.
But when Sonic Frontiers is over and done with and we get the next Sonic game like "Sonic Badonkas" then Speed Battle will just be renamed "Sonic Badonkas: Speed Battle".
The only reason I would see the game being renamed "Sonic Frontiers: Speed Battle" is if they close down Sonic Forces: Speed Battle and start a fresh. Which means the same old game just new courses, some old ones and you have to re-earn your characters and everything. And no one wants that. They tried to do it with Sonic Runners when they closed it down and made Sonic Runners Adventure.
I'd say, ditch the middle-man name and rebrand it as "Sonic Speed Battle". That way they can have events that cater for new game releases, as well as movies.
But actually the renaming thing was working.
After renaming, Sonic Forces mobile somehow could compete with SEGA's Japanese mobile games, the only SEGA's western mobile game that could make it to top ten every month.
May be when people searched "Sonic Forces" in the google they found this mobile game instead, tried them, and then got hooked up.
Pretty sure there are more people searched "Sonic Forces" than just "Sonic Speed Battle", Foreces name is catchier after all.
Still no way it could beat Miku mobile game (Project Sekai) though. Miku could even beat PSO2 NGS.
Y'know it's easy to forget as a hololive character she isn't just some run-of-the-mill YouTuber with a virtual avatar. Yet still the sheer popularity of Korone and the hololive characters is almost staggering.
I mean, when has anyone made news of the Irish the Hedgehog mod?
These hololive characters could talk and respond to fans immediately in their stream, that's what gibe them advantage compared to non streamer characters.