{"id":130842,"date":"2022-12-28T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-143042"},"modified":"2022-12-28T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T03:45:00","slug":"takashi-iizuka-sega-has-a-lot-more-planned-for-sonic-the-hedgehog-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/28\/takashi-iizuka-sega-has-a-lot-more-planned-for-sonic-the-hedgehog-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Takashi Iizuka: SEGA Has &#8220;A Lot More&#8221; Planned For Sonic The Hedgehog In 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93b3c8a640ccb\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93b3c8a640ccb\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Sonic the Hedgehog\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93b3c8a640ccb\/sonic-the-hedgehog.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTExIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"511\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93b3c8a640ccb\/sonic-the-hedgehog.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Sonic the Hedgehog\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: SEGA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an action-packed year for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mastersystem\/sonic_the_hedgehog\">Sonic the Hedgehog<\/a>, but it seems he won&#8217;t be slowing down anytime soon. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-dev-teases-big-announcement-for-2023\">same Famitsu interview<\/a> where Japanese developers look ahead to 2023, Sonic Team&#8217;s Takashi Iizuka has taken a moment to tease what&#8217;s on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>According to Iizuka, the plan is to maintain the momentum of the past year. As a result, Sega is already preparing a &#8220;second wave&#8221; of Sonic content, and there&#8217;s &#8220;a lot more&#8221; outside of the already announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_frontiers\">Sonic Frontiers<\/a> roadmap. Here&#8217;s the full translation (thanks, Gematsu):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Takashi Iizuka: &#8220;This past year was the biggest year in <em>Sonic<\/em> history, including the release of the movie sequel, new titles <em>Sonic Origins<\/em> and <em>Sonic Frontiers<\/em>, and the Netflix animation <em>Sonic Prime<\/em>. We are preparing a second wave to keep the fans happy and maintain that momentum going into 2023. We already announced additional content for <em>Sonic Frontiers<\/em>, but there is a lot more outside of that, so please look forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Throughout next year, the latest Sonic game Frontiers will be receiving free DLC updates. There are three content drops in total planned. Players can expect a Juke Box, Photo Mode, new challenge modes, Sonic&#8217;s Birthday celebration, open zone challenge new Koco, new playable characters and new story content.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Sonic the Hedgehog\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/728b91528c20f\/sonic-the-hedgehog.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/728b91528c20f\/sonic-the-hedgehog.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Sonic the Hedgehog\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: SEGA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/sonic\/related-articles:141953,136956 @ 2022-12-28T10:31:59+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a limited-time &#8216;Holiday Cheer Suit&#8217; up for grabs. What would you like to see from Sonic the Hedgehog in 2023? S<em>ound off in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: SEGA It&#8217;s been an action-packed year for Sonic the Hedgehog, but it seems he won&#8217;t be slowing down anytime soon. In the same Famitsu interview where Japanese developers look ahead to 2023, Sonic Team&#8217;s Takashi Iizuka has taken a moment to tease what&#8217;s on the horizon. According to Iizuka, the plan is to maintain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}