As you can see, the post was deleted while the thread was up, though it is unclear if the user deleted it themselves out of fear or if there was actually someone lurking around. It was at this point they stopped talking about this. In a random sonic thread, a user revealed that they had play-tested a new sonic game back in February 2020. This may indicate a four year development time instead of three. UPDATE: Seeing as they were already fooling around with the idea during mid-2018, these concept lists probably solidified what they were going with rather than it being the beginning of them creating ideas.
We may be getting this game five years after Sonic Forces, but the actual development time for the game itself has clearly been much shorter. Also judging by the play-testing/focus test leaks we’re about to go through, they only settled on concept E maybe a month or two after this survey. Meaning that when they said they just started development, they really meant it. If this survey was given out around November of 2019, then we can likely assume that they only started passing around ideas for the next game back when they announced it. How far along in development? We did not know, but this may give us an inclination. Now as we know, during SXSW 2019 it was confirmed that the next sonic game has begun development. This one is obviously the initial idea for Sonic Frontiers and we’ll later see down this timeline that most of the original idea seems to have remained intact. The second concept (Concept E) is where things get interesting. The image is cut off on the side, but one of the sentences read and imply that both Modern Sonic and Classic Sonic would’ve been in this game. This first concept (Concept K) obviously has not come to fruition, but entertains the idea of a multiplayer Sonic game. They also provided two screenshots of concepts for potential sonic games. They mention something about a Sonic game taking place in a location known as “Starfall Islands” and as we know now, that is indeed the location Sonic Frontiers will be taking place on as disclosed by the official website. They were lucky enough to do an online survey based on ideas for several potential upcoming games, that of which also included ideas for our favorite blue hedgehog.
November 19th 2019, an anonymous user on the site 4chan posted about an opportunity they had gotten. This seems to be the earliest mention of the concept for Sonic Frontiers. If more are found, this article will be updated accordingly. However, there’s been many more leaks aside from that as many know and today I’m going to put together a timeline of the known Sonic Frontiers leaks dating back from 2019 to now. It’s been a long time coming since the initial working title leak of Sonic Rangers to when Sonic Frontiers got officially trademarked. As The Game Awards passes by and the dust has settled from all the announcements, we are now left with an official title for the next mainline 3D Sonic game: Sonic Frontiers.
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