Sega’s plans for Sonic in 2024 seem to have leaked early.
As shared on reddit, a Powerpoint presentation that Sega may have been using internally leaked, and now we know their plans for most of the year. This includes video games and other media. We’ll go through each item.
First things first is the Knuckles TV show. Knuckles was introduced to the non-video game playing audience in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie. We already know quite a bit about this project, which is coming to Paramount +.
Idris Elba is reprising his role as Knuckles the Echidna, alongside Wade, as played by Adam Pally. In the events of the prior movie, Wade was acting sherriff at Green Hills, and Knuckles spent most of the movie fighting Sonic until Robotnik betrays him for the Master Emerald, just like in the video game.
Expanding that storyline, Knuckles has now been converted to an ally of Sonic’s and will spend this series training him to be an Echidna Warrior. The only thing that has changed is the original release date of late 2023 has been moved to the 1st quarter of 2024.
Mentioned next is Sonic Prime, the Netflix animated show with an original storyline separate from the movies and video games. Sonic Prime is created by Man of Action Studios, who had made their name on the Ben 10 franchise.
Sonic Prime has already had two seasons totaling 16 episodes. Wildbrain Entertainment, one of the production companies involved in Sonic Prime, has already revealed the show will have 24 episodes in total, making this upcoming 3rd season the last one. Sonic Prime will also be arriving at the 1st quarter of 2024.
Up next is a mobile game for Spring 2024. We have no other details on this one, but Sega has sought to make their original Sonic mobile games action
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