“I am sure you will enjoy it. Please wait for a while.” – Morio Kishimoto
The first major update to Sega and Sonic Team’s Sonic Frontiers seems to be nearing its completion. That information comes courtesy of the game’s director, Morio Kishimoto, who responded via Twitter on Saturday to a tweet from a MyNintendoNews reporter/commentator’s posting regarding how they feel the game would do well to introduce a “plus version.”
Kishimoto’s response was filled with both gratitude and a request for fans of the series to patiently await the update’s arrival, indicating that it won’t be too much longer to wait.” We apologize for making you wait for the update,” an in-house Twitter translation of the tweet reads. “The production of the first series is in the climax. I am sure you will enjoy it. Please wait for a while.”
While Kishimoto’s response should be encouraging for fans of the 3D open-world adventure set in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe, it was sparse on details about what would actually be included in the update, although the developers have long been insistent that the game would receive a lot of extra attention in its post-launch phase. Furthermore, no official release date for the update is known at this point beyond his indication of the amount of progress Sonic Team has made with it.
The game saw commercial success early on, selling more than 2.5 million copies worldwide within a little over a month of its initial release on November 8 of last year. The success of Sonic Frontiers — along with the second Sonic theatrically released movie, Netflix animated series Sonic Prime, and continued success from retro platformer Sonic Origins — even led the head of Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka, to declare that 2022 was “the biggest year” in the franchise’s history, which reaches all the way back to the original Sonic the Hedgehog in 1991.
It’s also received generally favorable scores from both critics and players from across the Internet — we gave it an 8/10 — and its been praised for keeping alive the classic elements that have made the Sonic franchise endure through a three-plus-decade history while shifting into a blockbuster, open-world adventure.
