Overview
- Takashi Iizuka, who spoke to Automaton on Thursday, October 1, 2026, said Sonic Team hears persistent fan requests for ports and remakes but has limited development resources and prefers to build new games.
- Iizuka explained that modernizing older Sonic titles often means remaking graphics and reworking gameplay to meet today’s standards, so a remaster can demand roughly the same time and staff as a new game.
- He named Sonic Unleashed as a commonly requested title and acknowledged player complaints that some older games are effectively unplayable on current hardware.
- Iizuka asked fans to “please wait a little longer” while stopping short of promising specific remasters or a timeline, leaving no confirmed plan for large-scale legacy reworks.
- The comments underline a wider industry trade-off between allocating staff to new releases or to costly legacy projects and raise the practical question of how Sega might make older Sonic games more accessible without full remakes.