Sonic the Hedgehog

***Sonic the Hedgehog*** is a Japanese platform video game series and media franchise created by Sega and featuring their mascot, Sonic. It is a series of fast platform games. Sonic is the main character. He is a bright blue hedgehog with supersonic speed. Usually, Sonic must stop the villain, Doctor Eggman's, plans for taking over the world. Sonic is often helped by his friends like Tails, Amy Rose, and Knuckles.

The first _Sonic the Hedgehog_ game was released in 1991. It was created by Sega's Sonic Team division after Sega wanted a new mascot character. This was because they wanted to replace Alex Kidd, and they wanted to compete with Nintendo's mascot, Mario. Its success made many sequels, and it helped Sega become one of the biggest video game companies during the 16-bit era of the early 1990s. The first major 3D  _Sonic_ game, _Sonic Adventure_, was released in 1998 for the Dreamcast. The first 3D Game is technically Sonic 3D Blast released on November 5, 1996 on the Game Gear.

The series made over  by 2014. As of 2018, the series has sold 800million copies. This includes free-to-play mobile game downloads.

### Sales

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Game|scope="col"|Platform(s)|scope="col"|Sales|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center;"|1991|||||||
|rowspan="4"|Mega Drive / Genesis|style="text-align:center;"|15 million|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1992|||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|6 million|||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1993|||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1 million in US|||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1994|||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|4 million (_Sonic 3_: 1.02 million in US _Sonic & Knuckles_: 1.24 million in US)|||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1995|||||||
|Sega 32X||||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1998|||||||
|Dreamcast|style="text-align:center;"|2.5 million||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2001|||||||
|GameCube|style="text-align:center;"|1.7322 million||||||
|Game Boy Advance|style="text-align:center;"|1.515 million||||||
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|2003|||||||
|GameCube|style="text-align:center;"|1.453 million||||||
|PlayStation 2/Xbox/GameCube|style="text-align:center;"|3.41 million||||||
|PlayStation 2/Xbox|style="text-align:center;"|2.19 million||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2005|||||||
|PlayStation 2/GameCube/Xbox|style="text-align:center;"|2.06 million||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2006|||||||
|Mobile|style="text-align:center;"|8 million in US & EU||||||
|Xbox 360, PlayStation 3|style="text-align:center;"|870,000||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2008|||||||
|PlayStation 2, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3|style="text-align:center;"|2.45 million||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2010|||||||
|PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows|style="text-align:center;"|1.07 million||||||
|Wii, Nintendo DS|style="text-align:center;"|2.18 million||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2011|||||||
|iOS|style="text-align:center;"|16.7million||||||
|PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS|style="text-align:center;"|1.85 million||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2012|||||||
|PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS|style="text-align:center;"|1.36 million||||||
|iOS|style="text-align:center;"|8.8million||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2013|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Wii U, Nintendo 3DS|style="text-align:center;"|710,000|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2014|||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|620,000|||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2016|||||||
|Nintendo 3DS||||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2018|||||||
|Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows|style="text-align:center;"|1million||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2022|||||||
|Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S||||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2007|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Wii, Nintendo DS|style="text-align:center;"|11.31 million|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2009|||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|6.53 million|||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2011|||||||
|Wii, Nintendo 3DS|style="text-align:center;"|3.28 million||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2013|||||||
|Wii U|style="text-align:center;"|65,377 in Japan||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2016|||||||
|Nintendo 3DS, Wii U|style="text-align:center;"|430,033 in Japan||||||

## Infobox (video game series)

- **title**: Sonic the Hedgehog
- **image**: SonicSeriesLogo.png
- **publisher**: Sega
- **genre**: Platform game, Platform
- **spinoffs**: _Sonic Boom (TV series), Sonic Boom_
- **first release version**: _Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game), Sonic the Hedgehog_
- **first release date**: June 23, 1991
- **latest release version**: _Sonic X Shadow Generations_
- **latest release date**: October 25, 2024