It was revealed earlier this 12 months that Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds didn’t meet Sega’s gross sales expectations, and the sport’s gross sales outcomes had been revised once more within the newest Sega Sammy monetary report for June 2026.
A slide centered on “gross sales power challenges” highlights Sonic’s newest racing sport and the current resurgence of Shinobi, noting that each of those titles have fallen in need of expectations when it comes to gross sales outcomes regardless of “robust title rankings.”
Moreover, it identifies the necessity to replace gross sales and advertising approaches in response to modifications within the βinner and exteriorβ setting.
Though these titles did not dwell as much as Sega’s expectations, the corporate continues to stay with them. Only recently, we introduced a second 12 months of assist for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and confirmed that extra collaborations are on the way in which. And final week, SHINOBI: Artwork of Vengeance was introduced for Change 2, probably boosting gross sales for this title even additional.
Throughout Sega Sammy’s monetary replace in February, the corporate mentioned it had a objective to promote a further 1 million copies of CrossWorlds within the subsequent fiscal 12 months and aimed to keep up “long-term gross sales” with continued assist for the title.
βWe just lately introduced that cumulative worldwide gross sales have exceeded 1 million items. Nevertheless, preliminary outcomes didn’t meet expectations, and we purpose to promote a further 1 million items inside this fiscal 12 months. We purpose to keep up long-term gross sales by persevering with to assist titles, similar to by frequently releasing further downloadable content material, in order that customers can benefit from the sport for a very long time.β
Trying to the long run, Sega is at the moment within the technique of reinvigorating varied different legacy franchises similar to Loopy Taxi and Virtua Fighter, with new titles in these sequence scheduled for 2027.