"I Had To Fight" - Sonic Boss Takashi Iizuka Reveals Sega Wanted To Cancel Entire Sonic Franchise
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""I Had To Fight" - Sonic Boss Takashi Iizuka Reveals Sega Wanted To Cancel Entire Sonic Franchise" is generating significant coverage in the Technology category, with 6 articles from 6 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include Kotaku, My Nintendo News, Time Extension and Inven Global. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Coverage (6)
- Sega Was Ready To Scrap Sonic Until The First Movie Proved How Popular He Still Was Kotaku · 4h ago
- Sonic Team confirms new Sonic the Hedgehog game in development with “unprecedented gameplay” My Nintendo News · 4h ago
- "I Was Told That We Should Cancel The Entire Franchise" - Sonic Boss Takashi Iizuka On His "Fight" With Sega Over The Blue Blur's Future Time Extension · 4h ago
- How Sonic Has Kept Running for 35 Years: Takashi Iizuka and Kazuyuki Hoshino on the Present and Future Inven Global · 4h ago
- Sega wanted to cancel the entire Sonic series but the first movie saved it, says Sonic Team head Iizuka Video Games Chronicle · 4h ago
- "I Had To Fight" - Sonic Boss Takashi Iizuka Reveals Sega Wanted To Cancel Entire Sonic Franchise Nintendo Life · 4h ago
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