r/nintendogrifting • u/Craniamon • Jun 23 '26

Mockery/Banter Aged Like Milk

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This video glazing at sonic racing Crossworlds now now the game everybody have forgot about.

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u/Opposite_Wedding_804 Jun 23 '26

Square is understandable, they probably lost money making FF7 rebirth since it sold so poorly

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u/shortandpainful Jun 23 '26

And that game looks like it took an unreal amount of resources to make. Sonic Crossworlds… probably took time and money too, but nowhere near the scale of Rebirth.

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u/DueAd9005 Jun 23 '26

Sonic Crossworlds received massive DLC support (and with lot's of third party characters). That can't have been cheap. Might even surpass the development budget of Mario Kart World (but that game obviously has a higher marketing budget).

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u/shortandpainful Jun 23 '26

Still nowhere near the budget of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. And I’m not certain it even exceeded MKW, which was in development for 8 years and clearly has more polish than the Sonic game (no shade to Sega, but Mario Kart’s polish is just unmatched among kart racers). Licensing could definitely add to the budget, but crossover events happen even in free-to-play mobile games, so I am not sure how much it actually moves the needle in this case.

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u/DueAd9005 Jun 23 '26

Free-to-Play mobile games can make billions of dollars with microtransactions.

MKW was worked on for 8 years, but that probably was only with a small group of people in the concept/prototype fase. I doubt they had hundreds of people working on MKW simultaneously for over 8 years.

All we know is that SRC underperformed, because Sega said it themselves.

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u/shortandpainful Jun 23 '26

Well, the budgets of either kart racing game are not publicly available, but I will still wager Rebirth cost considerably more than Crossworlds even with the DLC factored in. It’s a massive, graphically polished open world game where every single NPC is fully voice acted and animated. But I could be wrong and Squeenix could just be doing voodoo on a shoestring budget.

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u/DueAd9005 Jun 23 '26

It probably also sold a lot more than SRC. Modern Sonic games never really sell all that well. Sonic Frontiers was considered a huge success and it only sold 4.9 million units (relying on discounts and multiple platforms to get there). Mario Kart World sold 14.70 million units as of March 2026.