• federalreverse-old@feddit.de
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    They completely redesigned the face of Sonic and rerendered all the 3D scenes after getting social media feedback. Comparison:

    Sonic 2x

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      9 months ago

      Oh damn, that wasn’t a viral marketing campaign after all then

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        9 months ago

        No they apparently had a ton of merchandise featuring ugly sonic that they decided to just destroy/throw out instead of trying to sell it. Idk why, I woulda totally bought an ugly sonic T-shirt.

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          Wow, really? I’m still not convinced that it wasn’t viral marketing, but that would be pretty damning…

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            For full transparency I never verified that claim, but it would not be the most outlandish failure I’ve heard of. And at least they actually fixed the problem. Remember Cats?

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              I don’t remember Cats. I don’t want that in my memory.