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>>Sonic X concluded and Sonic Team likely dumped all of their creative juices into it
Sonic Team's involvement in X is overexaggerated by fans

>>Sonic Rush was ignored for Shad05
It did very well critically, was seen as one of the DS' stand out titles, and got a sequel

>By 2005 the franchise was actually running on fumes and Heroes was a flop when it came to getting audiences to like the extended Sonic cast
Heroes sold extremely well and got many kids on board. Sonic is a kids franchise