{"id":9234,"date":"2022-10-28T16:26:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T16:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/28\/sonic-the-hedgehogs-lifetime-sales-speed-past-1-5-billion-units\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:26:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T16:26:44","slug":"sonic-the-hedgehogs-lifetime-sales-speed-past-1-5-billion-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/28\/sonic-the-hedgehogs-lifetime-sales-speed-past-1-5-billion-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic The Hedgehog&#8217;s Lifetime Sales Speed Past 1.5 Billion Units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>And he&#8217;s not slowing down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a pretty big year for Sonic the Hedgehog. From the commercial success of his second movie back in April to the impending release of the much-anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_frontiers\">Sonic Frontiers<\/a> in November <em>and<\/em> the new <strong>Sonic Prime<\/strong> Netflix series in December, it is getting pretty difficult to miss SEGA&#8217;s speedy lil spike ball.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company&#8217;s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.segasammy.co.jp\/english\/ir\/library\/pdf\/printing_annual\/2022\/ir_2022_web_all_e.pdf\">annual report<\/a>, it is clear that Sonic&#8217;s popularity isn&#8217;t slowing down. The figures contained within the report detail the lifetime sales for all of the company&#8217;s assets (original and acquired) including the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/puyo_puyo\">Puyo Puyo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/football_manager_2022_touch\">Football Manager<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/persona_5_royal\">Persona<\/a>. It is Sonic, however, that stands blue head and shoulders above the rest, with the franchise having sold a total of 1.51 billion units (game sales and downloads across paid and free-to-play titles) since its conception back in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/sonic-the-hedgehogs-lifetime-sales-speed-past-1-5-billion-units\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Sonic The Hedgehog&#8217;s Lifetime Sales Speed Past 1.5 Billion Units<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>And he&#8217;s not slowing down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a pretty big year for Sonic the Hedgehog. From the commercial success of his second movie back in April to the impending release of the much-anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_frontiers\">Sonic Frontiers<\/a> in November <em>and<\/em> the new <strong>Sonic Prime<\/strong> Netflix series in December, it is getting pretty difficult to miss SEGA&#8217;s speedy lil spike ball.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company&#8217;s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.segasammy.co.jp\/english\/ir\/library\/pdf\/printing_annual\/2022\/ir_2022_web_all_e.pdf\">annual report<\/a>, it is clear that Sonic&#8217;s popularity isn&#8217;t slowing down. The figures contained within the report detail the lifetime sales for all of the company&#8217;s assets (original and acquired) including the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/puyo_puyo\">Puyo Puyo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/football_manager_2022_touch\">Football Manager<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/persona_5_royal\">Persona<\/a>. It is Sonic, however, that stands blue head and shoulders above the rest, with the franchise having sold a total of 1.51 billion units (game sales and downloads across paid and free-to-play titles) since its conception back in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/sonic-the-hedgehogs-lifetime-sales-speed-past-1-5-billion-units\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}