>>534501152
They said he is in the CGWorld issue released today lol.

In two separate official SEGA polls, Shadow was 2nd behind Sonic. Shadow won a 2005 poll that resulted in his game. Naka said they determined Shadow was the 2nd most popular character. Shadow was so popular he was brought back from the dead. On a large G+ poll he was 2nd. On the Sonic Showdown/Sonic wiki poll he was 2nd. He's mentioned as being the 2nd most popular character in Boom. Shadow is the favorite of many people who work/have worked at SEGA. Merch with Shadow on them are best sellers on SEGA shop and sell out. Shadow was the 2nd most popular character on a /sthg/ survey. Shadow has the most entries on Personality Database behind Sonic. Shadow is 2nd on Amino polls. Shadow was 2nd on a GameSpot poll. Shadow has the 2nd most updates on his fandom wiki page. Shadow's game sold twice as much as Mania. Shadow is 2nd on Instagram hashtags. Shadow is 2nd on Fanfiction results. Shadow is 2nd on Ao3 results. Shadow is the 2nd most guessed Akinator character. Shadow is 2nd in Lofter results.
https://sega.jp/special/sega-vote/list.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20091215064017/http://sonic.sega.jp/SonicChannel/event/016/index.html
https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=787
https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Special:MostRevisions
https://twitter.com/gamespot/status/1511093712532611073
https://shop.sega.com/collections/sonic-apparel?sort_by=best-selling
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/shadowthehedgehog/
https://www.personality-database.com/search?keyword=sonic
https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_News_Network:Sonic_Character_Tournament/Week_34
https://aminoapps.com/c/sonic/page/blog/what-do-you-prefer-part-1/xpKw_RqlT2uw6EVqDG7KLXk66eknQQolBLk
https://www.lofter.com/tag/sonic%C2%A0the%C2%A0hedgehog
https://en.akinator.com/
https://www.fanfiction.net/game/Sonic-the-Hedgehog/&srt=1&r=10&c1=2535
https://web.archive.org/web/20160306212428/http://cube.gamespy.com/articles/654/654735p1.html

Stfu