Did Team Sonic Racing really get no content updates or DLC after launch?

[N75]

This was marketed as a Jun Senoue/Crush 40/Tee Lopes soundtrack with a game attached to it.

They pretty much stopped talking about it after the delay until the SXSW panel 2 months before launch. CTR being released so close to it didn't help either.

Not that it really matters to me, but the idea to limit the roster to Sonic made no sense as all the most popular characters from the series were already in Transformed. No one really wants to race as three Chao or Zavok.

 

[-PXG-]

Was a complete downgrade from racing transformed so I didn't mind. Stopped playing it after a couple days.

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Mind boggling why they didn't just make Transformed 2. The first game was really good. A sequel, just bigger and more polished would have been a hit. Another example of Sega's cluelessness.

 

[AfterTheFall]

Missed opportunity this game as a whole. The support has been awful compared to Crash Team Racing.

 

[dedge]

I thought the game was fun but CTR blew it out of the water with support.

 

[rawhide]

Mind boggling why they didn't just make Transformed 2. The first game was really good. A sequel, just bigger and more polished would have been a hit. Another example of Sega's cluelessness.

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There's your problem. Sega ain't gonna spend that kind of money anymore, or even just spend as much as they spent on the first Transformed.

Transformed was the bigger, better sequel to ASR and to my knowledge it sold only marginally better than the original.

 

[Solid SOAP]

Even as a Sonic fan I could see it was a complete regress in quality from its predecessor. It's like if Nintendo took Smash and made a sequel with only Mario characters.

Beyond SEGA's cluelessness, it makes sense to me that this game underperformed. The original game released at a time where there was no Mario Kart on HD consoles, nor were there any alternatives such as Crash Racing. Now every system has Crash, and Mario Kart can be played on Nintendo's latest and extremely successful console. Sonic wasn't gonna stand a chance.

 

[Deleted member 31873]

I was thinking of getting this, but sounds even worse than the Crash Team Racing remake. Does this one at least have 60fps on PS4 Pro?

 

[Alek]

Sonic Team aren't even the developers of this game so I really don't understand the lack of post-game content.

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It would have had to be funded by SEGA. Sumo Digital don't work for free.

 

[pleaseinsertdisctwo]

Sega doesn't like to spend money anymore. That's why all recent Sonic titles are low budget af and are $40 at release

 

[Huey]

As someone who has played transformed multiple times on 3 different platforms, I really hope Sega's take away from the discrepancy between that games reception and transformed is "Well, people really liked the non-Sonic characters inclusive approach and we should focus on that for the next game" (knowing realistically that it will actually be "Well, people aren't interested in kart racers anymore so we'll never develop another one")

Also, the water and flight sections of transformed were its finest moments IMO - how you gonna pull that too?

Sumo please - can't you talk some sense in to them? :(

Beyond SEGA's cluelessness, it makes sense to me that this game underperformed. The original game released at a time where there was no Mario Kart on HD consoles, nor were there any alternatives such as Crash Racing. Now every system has Crash, and Mario Kart can be played on Nintendo's latest and extremely successful console. Sonic wasn't gonna stand a chance.

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But SART stood on its own two feet completely independent of being a character kart racer. It is a legitimately excellent game through and through.

 

[King Kingo]

It would have had to be funded by SEGA. Sumo Digital don't work for free.

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I'm not denying that. I just don't get why there isn't any additional content if Sonic Team is busy developing an entirely separate game.

 

[Alek]

I'm not denying that. I just don't get why there isn't any additional content if Sonic Team is busy developing an entirely separate game.

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Yeah I mean they barely supported the other games anyway. I think the DLC doesn't make much back for those titles.

 

[Roo]

Focusing only on Sonic was the kiss of death for this game.
Me and several friends skipped it because of it and I'm sure that was the case for many others.
If sales were not there I'm not surprised they didn't release DLC for it.

 

[Edge]

Well deserved bomb.
I mean, what the actual fuck were they thinking with completely dropping the All-Stars aspect of the franchise?

 

[Solid SOAP]

Well deserved bomb.
I mean, what the actual fuck were they thinking with completely dropping the All-Stars aspect of the franchise?

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Happy to see people legitimately labasting the game for that now. Many fans were desperately defending SEGA/Sonic Team's choice to only include Sonic characters for some reason... like really? How is that a good choice?

 

[Alek]

Happy to see people legitimately labasting the game for that now. Many fans were desperately defending SEGA/Sonic Team's choice to only include Sonic characters for some reason... like really? How is that a good choice?

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I don't think it was much of a choice so much as a cost cutting measure. It meant they could recycle a smaller number of themes and generally scale down the content in the game. If they were doing an 'all stars' roster, then people expect much more variety.

It's worth noting that the game was also made by Sumo Digital Nottingham, not Sumo Digital Sheffield (who made the first two Sonic Racing games). Much of the team were fresh on the project, and had not worked on the previous Sonic Racing titles.

Sumo's bigger teams in Sheffield were working on things like Crackdown and Forza Horizon at the time. Contracts which I'm sure pay much better than Sumo's relationship with Sega.

Personally I think what they should have done instead was ported Sonic Racing Transformed to modern platforms, and in the process expanded upon it with new tracks and characters.