
The game sold about 500,000 units when it originally released, which is nothing to sneeze at given that the Dreamcast was already dead. Just consider how Sonic Adventure 2: Battle did on the GameCube compared to its original release. Nintendo got a new third-party developer with an already deeply passionate fanbase to develop for GameCube, which was lagging behind the PS2, while Sega got a new platform to release its games on that agreed with a lot of its design philosophies. Sega and Nintendo had effectively buried the hatchet on a decade’s worth of adversity, and the benefits for both were clear. It was the franchise’s major introduction to other platforms, Nintendo specifically. Sonic Adventure 2: Battle wasn’t just important because it was a port of a Dreamcast game. Then Sonic Adventure brought Sonic back in a big way as the bestselling game on the Dreamcast, but with the PlayStation 2 effectively killing the Dreamcast and Sega exiting the hardware business, where could Sonic go without a console to call home? The Sega Saturn clearly suffered when a new mainline Sonic game never arrived. Altogether, the original Sonic games on Genesis generated tens of millions of sales. Sonic defined Sega as a company, and it’s what propelled the Sega Genesis to stardom. Even compared to the Sega Genesis games, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle might be the most important game in the history of the franchise. But there was a time when Sonic games were an event to be excited about, and I believe that enthusiasm culminated in 2002 with the release of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle in the West. Where Sonic games were once the cool alternative to Super Mario, now they are the butt of jokes from gamers. The current version of strange involves the fact that, while Sonic has enjoyed two recent film blockbusters and a budding cinematic universe, the game franchise has been hammered since the mid-2000s with entries that vary wildly in quality. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.It’s always a strange time to be a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
