History, Sega's Tactics, Sonic Boom, The Return to Sonic Adventure, and Hope for the Future of Sonic

Beginning in 2010 with Sonic Colors and Sonic 4, Sega has been trying to multitask by simultaneously designing for the long term fans while attempting to attract new ones.  Sonic Generations was a smorgage board as it cotained everything that everyone from all sections of the fanbase, even Adventure fans, could enjoy. After Colors a few team members began working on Lost World while the rest worked on Generations so the general plan for it had been decided by in 2010 or sooner.  After the abysmal sales of Lost world, Sonic Team took note of  the increasing demands and complaints from people like Roger, SA3, Tails Channel, and others; So, now, The next game is a traditonal Adventure Sonic game not like Colors, Generations, or Lost World. Sonic Team hasn't been ignoring their fanbase just misunderstanding it.

Sonic Generations was a love letter to the long time fans as well as an attempt to appeal to new fans acquired by Sonic Colors. It's more so they assumed that their long term paying fans consisted of mostly gensis fans who only cared about gameplay. Sonic 4 didn't sell very well, and SA3/ SA like games are increasing being demanded, so they seem to be aware what their long term fans truly want.

Their new approach is to Sonic games is to hire developers like BRB to make a new type of Sonic for new users, then they themselves make adventures games for the long time fans which is great! They no longer have to try and make one alternating contuity to satisfy all the different type fans by themselves. Casual, comedy seeking Sonic fans don't care what the games are like, so they've feel satified while niche Sonic fans can get their traditional games free of experimentation and poor humor.  It cannot be emphasized  enough how much of an improvement spliting up Sonic Colors,  Generations, and Lost World into two continuities is.

So long as the execution and vision of  returning to Adventure, Retro Sonic turns out well. Yes, Sonic Boom doesn't contain the type of story or perhaps even gameplay we adventure fans want, but it's a spin off series. So we don't really have a good enough reason to be pissed off at this point. The future of Sonic looks bright not dim.

Sources
http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/sonic-team-working-on-new-sonic-game/
http://www.tssznews.com/2014/06/03/working-prototypes-of-next-sonic-allegedly-in-existence/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPiAuPl7h9g&list=UUUNYWmlvdPYcFlrs3a1EfPg
http://www.licensemag.com/license-global/sonic-new-generation-sonic-boom