{"id":89039,"date":"2019-03-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/takashi_iizuka_confirms_the_next_sonic_title_is_already_in_development"},"modified":"2019-03-17T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T04:00:00","slug":"takashi-iizuka-confirms-the-next-sonic-title-is-already-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/17\/takashi-iizuka-confirms-the-next-sonic-title-is-already-in-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Takashi Iizuka Confirms The Next Sonic Title Is Already In Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/864f7c796d08b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/864f7c796d08b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Sonic The Hedgehog\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/864f7c796d08b\/sonic-the-hedgehog.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/864f7c796d08b\/sonic-the-hedgehog.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Sonic The Hedgehog\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>If the video clips for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/team_sonic_racing\">Team Sonic Racing<\/a><\/strong> weren&#8217;t already satisfying enough, the head of Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka, has confirmed the next big entry in the mainline Sonic series is officially underway. The announcement was made during a panel at SXSW Gaming 2019. Other than this, no other information is currently known about the new Sonic game and there&#8217;s no indication as to when Sega will reveal more about it.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent Sonic release was the enhanced title <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_mania_plus\">Sonic Mania Plus<\/a><\/strong> in 2018. The lead developer, Christian Whitehead, has since gone on to form his own studio &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/sonic_mania_devs_form_new_development_studio_evening_star\">Evening Star<\/a> &#8211; with several other <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/sonic_mania\">Sonic Mania<\/a><\/strong> team members. The most recent 3D title in the Sonic series was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_forces\">Sonic Forces<\/a><\/strong>, released on multiple platforms in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Are you looking forward to the next major entry in this <em>long-running<\/em> series? Tell us down below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the video clips for Team Sonic Racing weren&#8217;t already satisfying enough, the head of Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka, has confirmed the next big entry in the mainline Sonic series is officially underway. The announcement was made during a panel at SXSW Gaming 2019. Other than this, no other information is currently known about the [&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-89039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89039","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=89039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}