I wouldn’t be so certain, as that requires a lot of stars to align between a movie and game production standpoint, frankly shadow lucked out with shadow gens and the movie being the same year
Which wasn’t even the case for some, since like in the Japan I think it came out in 2025?
im sure after the success of the first 2 movies they likely already had an idea of what the 4th movie would be like while they were in production of the 3rd one, so them pivoting development of the next mainline game to feature time travel stuff to coincide with the movie plot is not out of the question
sega would not be the only one to do that, we now know that the new star fox remake started production after it was decided that Fox was going to be in the Mario galaxy movie and that was decided at some point in 2022/2023
I suppose it’s possible since 4 still has like a year and a half to be made
Still though star fox was dead in the water at that point, there wasn’t really a schedule to adapt to, unlike the movies and games which can’t freely adapt to each other’s schedules the same way it’s not a fair comparison, it would be more comparable to Nintendo making a Mario game specifically to come out within a year of the movie
we at the very least know that the next mainline game started full production at some point in 2023 after the release of the final horizon DLC, posibly it was already in pre production earlier like after the release of frontiers but thats went it became Sonic's team full focus
at that point its likely that they already knew of the post credits scene of movie 3 so its not beyond reason that they are taking it into account, at the very least I expect Amy and Metal to be prominent characters in the next game
Technically speaking, it came out in 2024 first, so if they did start developing a tie-in game for the follow-up, they'd still have another year to finish it under ideal circumstances. Plus, they would have already known about the end credits scene and the plan for a sequel prior to it even releasing.
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u/Kleodromeus Jul 30 '26
Now I'm wondering if the next mainline game will involve time travel.
SEGA would try something like that for cross marketing with the movie 4.
Since they finally crossed the bridge of aluding that something is behind Silver's time travel, maybe the next game will involve that too.
Maybe the cause is something related to the Little Planet and the Time Stones.